Heather MacDonald, writing for several newspapers including the New york Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Criterion and Public Interest, stated some interesting facts about the movement, “Black Lives Matter.”
Good news: Homicides fell 85% in New York City between 1990 and 2014. Similar rates were experienced in most US cities. Over 10,000 minority males are alive today in New York because of this decline. The cause of this decline was a program to identify where serious crimes occur and flood the predicted crime areas with police to prevent the crimes.
Bad news: Murders rose by 17% in large cities in 2015. Baltimore had the highest per capita homicide rate last year in its history, Milwaukee had a 72% increase in its murder rate while Cleveland increased 90%. Why? Police have abandoned the proactive program because when they appear in black neighborhoods, they are now met with hostile, jeering and threatening crowds. They respond to 911 calls with force, but generally stay out of black neighborhoods for routine patrols to prevent crime.
The overwhelming majority of murders are blacks killed by other blacks. Blacks commit homicides at ten times the rate of white and Hispanic males combined. And most of the victims are black.
President Obama and his administration have spoken against the police accusing them of broad discrimination against blacks. Whether it is true or not, his words have consequences.
Thousands of blacks have been murdered because of the administration’s and media’s war on the police and the number of police officers killed in shootings have doubled during the first three months of 2016. I don’t believe for a moment that President Obama wanted this carnage to occur. But I do blame him for not having staff trained in systems analysis to analyze the consequences of his actions.
Will our next president have advisors - and listen to them - to help them avoid unintentional consequences. I doubt it, but we will find out soon.
Seasoned Man
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