Using the Baltimore Sun’sfun interactive homicide chart, these are the sad and politically incorrect totals for 2010: 223 homicides: 202 black (91%), 13 white, 5 Hispanic, 1 Asian, 2 unknown(?). Overall, the 2009 population of Baltimore is estimated to be 63% African American and 33% white. So roughly, the black homicide rate (50) is eight times the white homicide rate…
Tag: race
Move cops to higher-crime districts
So say the Chicago ministers. Generally, such a move would a good idea. You certainly wouldn’t want to move the cops to lower-crime district. But if this happens, don’t be surprised next year when more blacks are arrested and more tickets are given to blacks. For what’s it’s worth, one Rev. Marshall Hatch of New Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church…
The Face of a Killer
[update: Hey, look at the picture below and then the picture of me to the right? Do you think we were separated at birth? Or maybe I just photo-shopped all the cops holding me out of the picture.] Should I be bothered by the fact that I’m always somewhat relieved whenever I find out that some murderer, in this case…
Man killed by police was holding a water nozzle, not a gun, police say
What race do you think the victim was?
Right-Wing Lies: The welfare of Larmondo “Flair” Allen
Am I really the only person who is skeptical enough to check the basic truth of emails before forwarding them to my 140 closest friends? I mean, it doesn’t take too long to go to Snopes The thing about mass-forwarded right-wing emails is that they are almost always never true. They’re like the headlines in the supermarket tabloid Weekly World…
Daryl Gates dies
Forgive me if I don’t send flowers to his funeral. What an SOB.
History Lesson
“Southern Succession and the Civil War were about slavery.” If your response is, “duh!” then just ignore this. But if you believe otherwise, if you think hundreds of thousands of people were fighting and dying for the principle of preserving the union or abstract concepts of state’s rights, if you think Robert Lee was an abolitionist, if you think the…
Off Duty and Black in Montgomery County
I recently received this from a (black) Baltimore police officer: If you want to know what an Eastside drug dealer feels when confronted by Baltimore Police, show BPD ID to Montgomery County police. They tossed me out of a restaurant in Bethesda because my shirt rode up and my holstered weapon with the badge adjacent were visible. According to the…
It’s not new, but is it fair?
I wasn’t even going to link to this story because I don’t want to repeat myself more than necessary. Here’s the point: black New Yorkers are seven times more likely than whites to be arrested for marijuana possession. For a moment, let’s put aside the actually story (not that we should). For the sake of debate, let’s accept the seven…
Police speak out against racial profiling in California
Take that, “blue wall of silence.” From Anthropoliteia.