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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^while everyone bickers over ideology and grabs at $, it is poor black people who are paying the price...why don't black victims matter, only black criminals? How many dead black DC children will be ENOUGH to merit a change of course? [/quote]

Because some of the folks demanding these types of racial equity analyses don't care about Black people at all. They care about increasing their own power and reach, and anti racism is how they do it. They can say and do anything they want in the name of anti racism. And those who oppose are per se racist. [/quote]

And they all seem to be from the same party.[/quote]

They do. And it's my party.  It's a feel-good place to be -- getting rid of racism.  It doesn't get much better than that, and it's addictive.  But when you really drill down into the details, you see that things are not as simple as they seem. And crime is one of them.  Yes, there is differential offending.  Yes, there is differential victimization. Vulnerable communities of color are more susceptible to victimization than anyone. Equity likely means pouring more police resources into those communities, because, as the racial equity impact assessment says, public safety is a public good, and it is the foundation from which everything else can thrive - housing, education, health, careers.

The answer isn't no police and no punishment.  The answer is professional police and right-sized punishments.  [/quote]

Unequal policing of communities is racist. Blacks do not commit crimes at a higher rates than Whites. [/quote]

Can you tell me the last time a bunch of armed white rednecks robbed someone in broad daylight in DC?
Can you tell me the last time that a group of white 13 year olds did an armed carjacking in DC?
Can you tell me the last time that a crew of white criminals did a drive-by shooting of a rival drug dealer using a stolen car?

I can't...  You'd have to go back years to find something like that.  But if it was blacks instead of whites, then all that happened and more in just the last few days alone.[/quote]

1/6.[/quote]

And what do you know? We are prosecuting them! What a novel concept. [/quote]

Who knows how many more are out there that the police are not looking for. Black people do not commit crime at a higher rate.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/black-crime-rates-your-st_b_8078586[/quote]

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