From The Guardian, an article about a public official telling the truth:
NYPD chief Bratton says hiring black officers is difficult: ‘So many have spent time in jail’
New York police commissioner says bringing more non-white officers into force is challenging because many African American men have criminal records
Hiring more non-white officers is difficult because so many would-be recruits have criminal records, the New York police commissioner, Bill Bratton, has said.
“We have a significant population gap among African American males because so many of them have spent time in jail and, as such, we can’t hire them,” Bratton said in an interview with the Guardian.
Another way of looking at it is that black cops are roughly in proportion to their race’s percentage of law-abiding citizens in the NYC commuting zone, but not in proportion to the black race’s share of total criminals in NYC.
When the usual furor started, Bratton told the NY Daily News:
Bratton is both a slick politician and rather more of a straightshooter than we’re used to these days. At least outside U.S. territory. For example, here’s a blunt, wise 2006 interview that Bratton gave Linda Frum of the Canadian news magazine Maclean’s regarding Toronto’s crime problem:
Q. [Frum] So you know a little bit about our city? You know about our problems? A 27-per-cent increase in the number of homicides from 1995 to today. A Boxing Day slaying where a 15-year-old innocent bystander was gunned down during a gang shootout on a major shopping street. Can I tell you — it would be nice if you were our police chief.
A. [Bratton] Well, thank you. Tell me, the gang violence that you are experiencing, what is the racial or ethnic background of the gangs?
Q. That’s a refreshingly blunt question. Some say it may be as high as 80 per cent Jamaican. But no one knows for sure, because people here don’t like to talk about that.
A. You need to talk about it. It’s all part of the issue. If it’s Jamaican gangs that are committing the crimes, well then, go after the Jamaican gangs. And don’t be afraid to go after them because they’re black. That’s the last thing you need to be concerned with.
Q. Oh boy, I can see the complaints coming in already. You have to understand the climate here. The major local daily in Toronto, the Toronto Star, says it doesn’t believe in “gratuitously” labelling people by ethnic origin.
A. Well, that really helps identify who they are, doesn’t it? The next step will be to refuse to allow the police to identify people by their race or ethnic origin. That type of societal consciousness really goes to extremes. …
Q. The Broken Windows approach to policing is assertive and increases the frequency of interaction with citizens on a daily basis. Is it a method of policing that is possible only with the right political will behind it?
A. Political will is absolutely critical. In other words, if your government, your society, is saying, “We don’t want you focusing on the little things because we’re concerned it might be seen as racially incorrect,” or, “We’re concerned that it’s not appreciative of the ethnic backgrounds of people” — well, that’s the lame excuse that got American policing into so much trouble in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s. The attitude was, “We’re not going to police some of these minor crimes in the minority neighbourhoods. After all, what’s the harm? There are really no victims to prostitution, or gangs hanging on the corner and drinking.” But what we didn’t understand was that the victim was the neighbourhood. It was like a cancer eating away at that neighbourhood. And all the people who lived there were ultimately the victims as their neighbourhoods deteriorated. It’s guaranteed that if you don’t control those minor types of violations, you are going to create a climate in which the people perpetrating them are emboldened to try and get away with more…
Q. Rather than focus on social and economic causes, you’ve said in the past that one of the most important ways to reduce crime is to go after narcotics. . .
A. Well, what are the Jamaican gangs up there fighting over — who controls the drug trade?
Q. Yes.
A. Exactly. So to do it, they are going to do the same thing they do down in Jamaica, which is resort to violence as the first way of dealing with it. Whether it’s your Asian gangs that are trying to control the gambling or your gangs coming in from Eastern Europe trying to control the credit card fraud, they all have their specialties. It comes back to core principles. The criminal justice system, if properly co-ordinated, and properly supported politically and publicly, can in fact control crime. And the way you control crime is through controlling behaviour.
Q. So the situation in Canada is far from hopeless. . .
A. The good news is we know what to do about crime. You need to have political leaders, police chiefs, and the community working together, under the community policing partnership principle. You need to develop priorities and develop focus. And also go from the underlying understanding that crime is caused by individual behaviour.
Comments to Steve Sailer:
* Well, perhaps the solution is to abolish the ‘good character’ qualification for police recruits and allow former criminals to join. Seriously, I’ve heard this notion being discussed by the power people.
The former minimum height requirement for police officers, common to Anglo-Saxon nations was abolished because it was held to ‘discriminate’ against ethnic minorities.
* The falling crime rate was the result of the population becoming more reclusive and low trust. Furthermore, it wasn’t a good thing – the culture has become shitty and the younger generation screwed up. Times were much better from 1960-1990, and people trusted each other much more.
* In medical school we are taught to tailor our treatment based on the individual.
One example of that was how “some patients” can’t handle taking multiple medications multiple times a day because they lack the organizational ability. Everyone knows who they were referring to.
Some professions need to be a little more race realist to function.
* What protects Bratton is he’s married to a liberal LA Jewish lawyer who has been on the law faculties of Columbia and Boston University.
* Why is it such an article of faith that more black police need to be hired? Are they smarter? Less likely to be corrupt? Less likely to be brutal or trigger happy? Outperform other groups? Of course not. It’s just assumed that blacks prefer being arrested by someone that looks like them when in fact they’re just seen as agents of the man, that’s all. Can I demand that all government employees I deal with be white? Maybe blacks need to realize that they’re not living in Africa and so will have to deal with other races.
Blacks lobbying for more black cops are just looking for it to be a jobs program for them. Bending over backward to cater to those who make a career of complaining is a mistake since no matter what’s done it’s never enough. Policing is a tricky enough issue without it being politicized even more than what it is by turning it into a blatant racial spoils system.
* You ought to watch “Cocaine Cowboys”, a documentary account of (among other things) the same mass corruption of the Miami police department after desperate recruitment efforts resulted in ever-lower standards. I expect that LA followed the same path. New Orleans certainly did. NO was hiring psychopathic black cops (based on their mandatory employment psych examination) that were soon moonlighting as hitmen/enforcers.
* Ezell Ford? The LAPD is now handcuffed. Drive and wave. Ditto NYPD. Both cities are toast. Black voters want free rein to Black criminals. They are the core urban machine voters. So they get what they want as De Blasio and Garcetti care about getting reelected. Not rich people.
Even if rich people fund antI de Blasio campaigns, cops wanting to avoid prosecution and arrest for doing their job will sit eating donuts. You can’t put the toothepaste back in the tube. LAPD and NY cops know their mayors will throw them to a Black mob and saw what happened elsewhere.
In short, any city with any significant Black pop will go Detroit. Obamas ginning up Black grievance to sink Hillary and the Republican has blowback of Detroiting most cities. Even important ones.
* As we continue our march further and further into diversity and the multicult, with seemingly no end in sight, do the supporters of such policies ever connect the dots and realize all the societal problems this is causing? Stories like this occur almost daily where everything is viewed through the proverbial racial/ethnic lens. Yet rather than slow down and rethink this whole diversity-is-a-strength meme, they just double down and drive on.
Every nation has problems, but just think about nations like South Korea and Japan that don’t have to deal with this crap on a daily basis. And just think about the many European nations that spilled so much blood over the centuries to finally get somewhat of a monoculture only to throw it all away in the past couple of decades to bring this dysfunction and disharmony upon themselves.
It makes no sense especially given that the supporters of such policies pride themselves on being our intellectual betters. Anyone remotely knowledgeable about human history would know this is not going to end well.
