Anonymous wrote:So crime will keep rising while we twiddle our thumbs on whether to crack down on it.

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Anonymous wrote:^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?

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.

And they all seem to be from the same party.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Use validated studies and not Huff Po articles.

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Anonymous wrote:^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?

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.

And they all seem to be from the same party.

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.

And now we, as a society, have come full circle. Extra policing in minority communities but this time for their benefit?

The use of policing as a social engineering tool, whether for good or bad reasons, has always been the problem.

No, it hasn't. The absence of the police leads to vigilante justice. And at worst military intervention.

Huh?

Name one example of where using policing as a social engineering tool, either positive or negative rules based on demographic differences, has ever worked.

The more police on the streets, the more Black lives are saved. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2021/04/20/988769793/when-you-add-more-police-to-a-city-what-happens

The economists also find troubling evidence that suggests cities with the largest populations of Black people — like many of those in the South and Midwest — don't see the same policing benefits as the average cities in their study. Adding additional police officers in these cities doesn't seem to lower the homicide rate. Meanwhile, more police officers in these cities seems to result in even more arrests of Black people for low-level crimes. The authors believe it supports a narrative that "Black communities are simultaneously over and under-policed." The economists don't have a solid explanation for why bigger police forces appear to lead to worse outcomes in these cities, and they plan to investigate these findings more deeply in future research.

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Anonymous wrote:^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?

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.

And they all seem to be from the same party.

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.

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

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.

1/6.

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

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

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Anonymous wrote:^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?

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.

And they all seem to be from the same party.

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.

And now we, as a society, have come full circle. Extra policing in minority communities but this time for their benefit?

The use of policing as a social engineering tool, whether for good or bad reasons, has always been the problem.

No, it hasn't. The absence of the police leads to vigilante justice. And at worst military intervention.

Huh?

Name one example of where using policing as a social engineering tool, either positive or negative rules based on demographic differences, has ever worked.

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Anonymous wrote:^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?

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.

And they all seem to be from the same party.

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.

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

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.

1/6.

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

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Anonymous wrote:^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?

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.

And they all seem to be from the same party.

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.

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

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.

1/6.

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Anonymous wrote:^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?

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.

And they all seem to be from the same party.

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.

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

They absolutely do. Especially violent crime. You can say that stems from structural racism too, but it is a fact.

Structural raism as in over policing Black neighborhoods.

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Anonymous wrote:^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?

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.

And they all seem to be from the same party.

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.

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

They absolutely do. Especially violent crime. You can say that stems from structural racism too, but it is a fact.

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Anonymous wrote:^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?

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.

And they all seem to be from the same party.

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.

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

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.

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Anonymous wrote:^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?

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.

And they all seem to be from the same party.

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.

And now we, as a society, have come full circle. Extra policing in minority communities but this time for their benefit?

The use of policing as a social engineering tool, whether for good or bad reasons, has always been the problem.

It’s just a parenting problem. Maybe there should be a professional parenting service that can assume those duties for these kids/juveniles.

Black parents are just as good as White parents. Are you suggesting we take children away from Black parents?

This has nothing to do with race. There are parenting problems across the country.

This would be more of a social worker type of effort to help children under 26, post-arrest. This is the kind of thing I thought defund the police was striving to do? instead of spending more on enforcement, spend more on healing.

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Anonymous wrote:^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?

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.

And they all seem to be from the same party.

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.

And now we, as a society, have come full circle. Extra policing in minority communities but this time for their benefit?

The use of policing as a social engineering tool, whether for good or bad reasons, has always been the problem.

It’s just a parenting problem. Maybe there should be a professional parenting service that can assume those duties for these kids/juveniles.

Black parents are just as good as White parents. Are you suggesting we take children away from Black parents?

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Anonymous wrote:^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?

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.

And they all seem to be from the same party.

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.

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