Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:According to the logic in the report, the prevalence of BIPOC criminals is due to over policing and unequal enforcement. Since the District is 70% White, the report implies there is at least double the crime in the District since the crimes committed by White criminals must go unreported or unenforced. After all, the BIPOC and Whites must be committing crimes at the same rates.
It helps if you completely ignore class differences to understand the above. But hey, I am no sociologist.
Obviously no one reports all the white criminals and also take care not to even talk about them on this site.
Anonymous wrote:According to the logic in the report, the prevalence of BIPOC criminals is due to over policing and unequal enforcement. Since the District is 70% White, the report implies there is at least double the crime in the District since the crimes committed by White criminals must go unreported or unenforced. After all, the BIPOC and Whites must be committing crimes at the same rates.
It helps if you completely ignore class differences to understand the above. But hey, I am no sociologist.
Anonymous wrote:I mean, you know the crime situation is untenable when the Biden DOJ announced yesterday they are surging FBI and DEA resources into DC.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:According to the logic in the report, the prevalence of BIPOC criminals is due to over policing and unequal enforcement. Since the District is 70% White, the report implies there is at least double the crime in the District since the crimes committed by White criminals must go unreported or unenforced. After all, the BIPOC and Whites must be committing crimes at the same rates.
It helps if you completely ignore class differences to understand the above. But hey, I am no sociologist.
Per the census, DC is 46% white. Not sure what game they are playing to cite 70%. The overwhelming majority of victims of crime are poor POC. What about them? https://dcwitness.org/
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/DC/RHI125222#RHI125222
Anonymous wrote:According to the logic in the report, the prevalence of BIPOC criminals is due to over policing and unequal enforcement. Since the District is 70% White, the report implies there is at least double the crime in the District since the crimes committed by White criminals must go unreported or unenforced. After all, the BIPOC and Whites must be committing crimes at the same rates.
It helps if you completely ignore class differences to understand the above. But hey, I am no sociologist.
Anonymous wrote:According to the logic in the report, the prevalence of BIPOC criminals is due to over policing and unequal enforcement. Since the District is 70% White, the report implies there is at least double the crime in the District since the crimes committed by White criminals must go unreported or unenforced. After all, the BIPOC and Whites must be committing crimes at the same rates.
It helps if you completely ignore class differences to understand the above. But hey, I am no sociologist.
Anonymous wrote:Yep. And it was written with the express intent of undercutting the crime bill currently under consideration. This whole issue about no pre-trial detention! Violent people who threaten or harm other people with weapons need to be detained away from the rest of us.