The 2018 murder rate is down from the previous two years, but higher than we’ve seen in 6 of the past 10 years. Last year’s murder rate is the same as 2015. And 2009! And yet I keep hearing every year that violence is down. So what’s this trend? And sort of related, why do some people insist on the…
Tag: crime
Progressive Misbelief
For well over a century, “progressives” have a proud tradition of not only exposing what is best for other people (often correctly, I might add) but also thinking they know what other people believe (often incorrectly). There’s a paternalism inherent to the progressive movement that can come awfully close to racism (or at least a white-savior complex) when it comes…
Cops in Conservative Cities Shoot & Kill More Often
Forbes came out with a list of the 10 most conservative and liberal cities in America. Top ten conservative, in rank order: Mesa Oklahoma City Virginia beach colorado springs Jacksonville Arlington, TX Anaheim Omaha Tulsa Aurora Top ten liberal, in rank order: San Fran DC Seattle Oakland Boston Minneapolis Detroit NYC Buffalo Baltimore I’m not going to argue with the…
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I’ve got over 2,500 posts on this blog. But I can’t help but notice I’ve only posted six times in the past three months. That is a record low. So what have I been doing? Well, I do have a job. But also I’ve been on twitter a lot more. See, writing is work. And this work here? It don’t…
“Ronnie Goldman has a brand new cane”
Good God, I haven’t posted in a while. Well, I still get paid. Here I am on Glenn Loury’s Bloggingheads TV today, talking about the issues I discuss here. Anyway, what to post about next? I don’t want to be let the perfect post be the enemy of the good. This is hardly an important post, but I couldn’t resist…
White-On-White Crime (lots, but without homicide)
[This relates to my previous post] Years ago, like when I was 13, I was with my father, driving from NYC to Chicago, on a baseball road trip (he drove). Between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, we spent one night in Johnstown, PA. (Remember the Johnstown Flood!). After watching the Johnston Jonnies play baseball, we had dinner in a local bar. My…
Enough with the “Fakery”
John McWhorter on the developing taboo of using the phrase “black-on-black crime.” (Spoiler alert: “We need to nip the burgeoning of this new and useless taboo in the bud with all deliberate speed.”): “What’s wrong is to refer to black on black crime as evidence of something uniquely pathological about black people. … [But] to instead classify the term “black…
“I had to blame myself for a lot of things too”
This is not the usual message I’d expect from a man whose armed son was just killed by police, provoking a bit of burning in Milwaukee: What are we gonna do now? Everyone playing their part in this city, blaming the white guy or whatever, and we know what they’re doing. Like, already I feel like they should have never…
If a protest against violence falls in a street without reporters, does it make a sound?
Lois Beckett in the Guardian: But black Americans in neighborhoods that see constant gun violence do try to make their voices heard, in protests like the one Truehill helped organize: community led, often small and largely ignored by news organizations. Thirty people showed up on Friday, most of them black men and women in their mid-20s. Gun violence was deeply…
20 People Shot at Florida Nightclub (ho hum)
From the Times: Two teenagers were killed and at least 18 people were wounded early Monday when attackers raked a crowd with gunfire outside a nightclub here that had been hosting a party for young people, the authorities said. Sound familiar? Yeah, because it is. But this isn’t even the main story of the day. It kind of started as…