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Criminal Offenders

According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, black and Hispanic Americans commit crimes at a higher rate than whites*:

The prevalence of imprisonment in 2001 was higher for:

– black males (16.6%) and Hispanic males (7.7%) than for white males (2.6%)
– black females (1.7%) and Hispanic females (0.7%) than white females (0.3%)

Consequently, those civil rights leaders who want to take Bill Bennett off the air had better shut down the FBI as well:

Wade Henderson, the executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, demanded that the show be canceled.

Moron.

Bill Clinton wanted to have a nation-wide dialog on race, and that was fine and dandy. But every time somebody makes a true and uncomfortable observation that touches on race, even incidentally, the demagogues try and make it into lynching material. I’m not optimistic about this dialog ever happening.

See Jeff and John and Classical Values.

* Yes, I’m aware that committing crimes and being imprisoned aren’t exactly the same thing, but the raw data on victimization is limited to violent crimes. Don’t be so picky.

UPDATE: This bit from the Freakonomics boys is truly hilarious:

It is true that, on average, crime involvement in the U.S. is higher among blacks than whites. Importantly, however, once you control for income, the likelihood of growing up in a female-headed household, having a teenage mother, and how urban the environment is, the importance of race disappears for all crimes except homicide.

Well, duh, nobody said that American blacks have criminality encoded in their genes, morons, they said they commit crimes at a higher rate than whites for unspecified and irrelevant reasons. This argument is like saying “while incarceration rates for blacks are higher than for whites, correcting for prison residency makes the gap disappear.” These guys have Ph. D.’s, of course.

UPDATE: See Nick Schulz’ re-write of this post here.

September 30th
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Mumon 3 years ago 1 point
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But every time somebody makes a true and uncomfortable observation that touches on race, even incidentally, the demagogues try and make it into lynching material.
Levitt and Dubner don't entirely agree with the "uncomfortable observation," and neither do I.

The issue isn't race, Richard, it's class.

Limit the stats to folks who come from poor backgrounds, and you'll find pretty much proportional representation racially.

Limit the stats to the ultra-rich, and you'll likely find that corporate criminals are white.

Limit the stats to the middle classes, and you'll find a disproportiante share of whites as well, no doubt, but for different crimes.

I wouldn't take instruction in morality or politics from a degenerate gambler, to paraphrase your unrelated last-namesake.

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Richard Bennett 3 years ago 1 point
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The issue, actually, was abortion. If you want to talk about race, the issue is race; if you want to talk about class, then it's class. Bill was arguing that it's wrong to justify abortion on the basis of any sort of social engineering objective; that sort of thing is eugenics, and we don't do that in America.

The comments from the Freako boys were hilarious, and I thank you for them.

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NEP Admin 3 years ago 1 point
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Parallels in government/media hypocricy are, naturally, common. Take the onerous Violence Against Women Act, Little Joe Biden's anti-family, anti-male $1B or pure bullshit.

Of course, VAWA is actually another con job foisted on a complicit population of servants by the feds. BUt saying so, as with this topic, is to make a very uncomfortable comment not about race, but gender. We adore our myths.

It turns out that some 40% of DV is perpetuated by women, and this does not account for the overwhelming evidence of men chronically not reporting assaults on their persons. And amazingly, nearly 2/3 of all child abuse is committed by women. Just hang around the news stands for a couple days for the latest installment of schoolboys being raped by young female teachers or infants being murdered by mom.

My point is not to generalize or push the pendulum back. My point is to expose the shame and mendacity of federal programs fueled by political correctness under the dishonest guise of restoring balance to assumed white male oppression.