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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.

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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

Only because the White criminals and victims don't get reported to the police.

You completely made that up.

Anonymous wrote:Do.not.care.


DC is getting EXACTLY what they voted for. They can eat it.

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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

Only because the White criminals and victims don't get reported to the police.

Anonymous wrote:I really hope the council ignores the woke idiots who don’t support tough on crime policies. I honestly give no fks about being called out for wanting a safer city. Enforcing the law is not “colonialism” or whatever nonsense study done by some Oberlin sociologist claims. Also, it sucks, but poor people in the rougher wards or PG are committing the crimes. If you find some white collar fks in NW committing stock fraud or whatever, arrest them too. Just arrest and prosecute anyone guilty and stop trying to give people a pass. Stop wasting money on stupid sht like restorative justice or violence interruptors. None of this slap on the wrist, catch and release sht works and you know it.

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Blacks do not commit crimes at a higher rates than Whites.

This is patently untrue and is an incredibly irresponsible effort to muddy the waters so that no solution can ever be reached. Right out of the Trump playbook.

+1. There are numerous data sources that prove this. Whether it’s due to historic injustice or whatever else is a fair conversation worth having, but the facts are the facts.

And before you call me a racist, just know that I am a middle aged (approaching) black guy that cares about the truth, and is generally tired of white liberals and their BS.

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Blacks do not commit crimes at a higher rates than Whites.

This is patently untrue and is an incredibly irresponsible effort to muddy the waters so that no solution can ever be reached. Right out of the Trump playbook.

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Blacks do not commit crimes at a higher rates than Whites.

This is patently untrue and is an incredibly irresponsible effort to muddy the waters so that no solution can ever be reached. Right out of the Trump playbook.

Blacks do not commit crimes at a higher rates than Whites.

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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.

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.

Over policed? Hysterical. Not policed well enough.

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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.