Monthly Archive: July 2023
by Kent Scheidegger · Jul 7, 2023 11:18 am
Do the usual explanations of statistics, and especially regression analysis, make your eyes glaze over? If so, join the very large club. Help is here from the Manhattan Institute. George Borjas has this article in the City Journal giving a nontechnical description of the use of regression in claims of discrimination, its difficulties, and why different experts can find different results from the same raw data.
The article discusses claims that Harvard discriminated against Asian applicants, the subject of a recent Supreme Court decision. The same principles apply to discrimination claims in criminal cases, including McCleskey v. Kemp (1987) and states with misguided and misnamed Racial Justice Acts. Continue reading . . .
by Michael Rushford · Jul 5, 2023 1:40 pm
A cross-dressing Black Lives Matter activist has been arrested for a mass shooting in a working class Philadelphia neighborhood Monday night. Emily Crane and Andy Tillett of the New York Post report that Kimbrady Carriker surrendered after shooting at pursuing officers who had responded to shots-fired call in the city’s Kingsessing neighborhood. Carriker had a rifle, pistol, police scanner and was wearing a bulletproof vest when taken into custody. According to police Carriker shot and killed four men in the street, after killing a fifth man in a house. He also shot and injured two children. Carriker has no known connection to any of the victims. During the George Floyd riots Carrkier posted a video of a burning a police car sprayed with “ACAB” which is shorthand for “All Coppers are Bast—ds.” He had priors for illegal possession of a firearm and drug offenses and was sentenced to probation. Continue reading . . .
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