* Baltimore’s homicide numbers were trending up before Freddie Gray (great article from 2013), while the population of the city was decreasing each year.
Indianapolis has has no serious problems with the BLM movement, and yet the blacks there are working overtime to ensure the city becomes more violent each year.
If there were no cops in Baltimore, and white people suddenly disappeared, you’d have probably 2 to 3 times the homicides (as of 12/26/2015, there had been 626 nonfatal shootings in the city, representing a 72 percent increase from 2014).
And I wouldn’t call 2015′s spike in homicides courtesy of Black Lives Matter. I’d call it a combination of Marilyn Mosby’s affirmative action incompetence as the states attorney and the Baltimore Police Department finding refuge in the few coffee shops left in the city.
Meanwhile, all six of the indicted officers will be acquitted in 2016, meaning we could conceivably see President Obama have to deal with more black riots toward the middle of the year.
Someone hit Trump’s music.
* “Experts have not pointed to a single, dominant reason…”
No dominant reasons, but they think they might have a few submissive ones. Seriously, what kind of ridiculous, high-handed writing is this? Topic aside, this article is so stylistically snooty, it makes satire beside the point. If this article could take on a human form, it would be Mrs. Howell from “Gilligan’s Island.”
I guess the moral here is when you’re trying to obscure something obvious, go highbrow and dazzle ‘em with “smart word choices.” Reading this is like watching a sitcom where a character gets caught doing something bad, then tries to get out of it by spouting pseudo-intellectual word salad: “Well, mom, the single, dominant reason I ate all of the pie was because…”
* Experts can’t explain why I have a hurt leg. I woke up yesterday feeling fine and went about my day. It was one of my better days. Today started out like any other day except in the morning someone broke in my house and bashed my leg with a baseball bat. My leg really hurts today. Nobody can figure out why.
* What’s interesting is the degree to which everything seems to all be coming to a head towards the end of Obama’s presidency.
Massive increases in murder rates, set off by the actions of Holder and Obama.
The invasion of Europe, set off by Obama’s failed policy in the Middle East.
The Dow falling by over 10%, and a wealth of dire economic data..
Temper tantrums on college campuses all over the US.
A symphony composer or screenplay writer could not have timed these things more perfectly.
* “Experts have not pointed to a single, dominant reason for this rise in homicides in Baltimore, nor have they definitively established any kind of causal link between the unrest in April after Freddie Gray’s death and the increase in killings……Freddie Gray’s death touched off protests and civil unrest.”
Unrest and protests! Love the dishonest, neutral terms for black violence and maniacal hatred in the NY Times.
Meanwhile Trump and his supporters are described by the Times as nothing but the embodiment of hatefearhatefearevilevilphobicracistetcetc…..sputter and drool!!!!!!!!!!
We, the non experts, actually know EXACTLY what caused the increase in black males murdering each other in Baltimore.
Black thugs looted as many CVS type drug stores as possible and got hold of drugs they then retailed on the street. Other black male thugs wanted in on the action and robbed and killed dealers of their drugs and money.
Then a cycle of revenge and retaliation among friends and associates of the dead and wounded led to more murders.
It’s as simple as that.
Now, pretend not to notice.
* I Googled the term ‘Ferguson effect’. What amazed me was how many articles there were insisting there was absolutely, positively, definitively, totally and completely no such thing as a “Ferguson effect’. There was an almost desperate, “pay no attention to that man behind the curtain” tone to them. Finally I found one article that admitted that there might, maybe, possibly, BE such a thing as a “Ferguson effect” but that it was somehow wrong to speak of or acknowledge such a thing. Finally I found an explanation for the term. It seems to just be the old “FIDO” policy (F*** it, drive on) that cops would resort to after a period of black “activism”. I.E. turn a blind eye to black criminal activity for fear of being called a “racist”. Just another version of the law of unintended consequences really.
* Fittingly enough, Dee Snyder gave Trump his blessing to use “We’re Not Gonna Take It” at his campaign rallies. Trump should make full use of it. It is a powerful anthem of pissed-off dissatisfaction.
* Trump uses “Rocket Man” and “Phantom of the Opera” at his rallies because Sir Elton and Sir Andrew own apartments in Trump Tower.
* It’s a good thing we have experts to explain these things to us. Where would society be without them?
* Lets keep in mind that this is an all black affair. There’s no jump in white homicide rates or anything like that. Whites and everyone else are the ones trying to make sense of what’s going on, what the causes might be and are expected to pick up the pieces afterward, paying the tax money for police, courts, jails, hospital treatment, physical rehab, various programs in hopes of dissuading black youth from lives of crime and so on. It goes up, it goes down, mostly the reasons given are hardly more than surmise, the good sounding guesses of the moment are later superseded by other guesses pushed by academics. One can’t go to the source and get a coherent answer out of any blacks because they themselves don’t know or care. The only thing one can get out of them is blame someone else-white, that is-or the standard formula of send more money.
It all seems cyclical; Chicago had big blowout years in ’74 and ’92. In the first ten days of this new year we had close to one hundred shootings, starting off the year with a bang. The public firing of the police chief doesn’t seem to have accomplished much in appeasing the black population. Blacks are inherently a violent breed and large numbers are always ‘going off’ for some reason. That’s just the reality. They require greater control and various barriers between them and everyone else have to be erected to prevent spillover. The ‘why’ of what they do isn’t as relevant as the fact they’re doing it. As an old timer put it to me a long time ago, ‘they is what they is, they does what they does’.
