DOJ To Prohibit Data-Based Policing
One of the most effective improvements to policing of the last fifty years has been the use of data to determine which neighborhoods are plagued with the most crime. In the mid 1990s, law enforcement agencies in many U.S. cities, including New York and Los Angeles, were able to dramatically cut crime rates by targeting high crime areas with more police patrols and specialized units focused on gangs and illegal firearms. Crime reporting and incident data has also helped focus government and private programs on the areas and populations most in need of services to improve their lives. In its blind pursuit of “social justice” the Biden administration has determined that data-based policing is racist. James Lynch of the Daily Caller reports that Department of Justice is proposing updating anti-discrimination guidelines which will prevent federal law enforcement from relying on crime statistics to catch criminals.
FBI agents and other federal law enforcement officers would be banned from using a person’s “actual or perceived race, ethnicity, gender, nationality, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, sex characteristics, disability status, or gender identity” in “any degree,” the documents show. The ban even applies to scenarios where using protected characteristics might otherwise be lawful. “[O]fficers and agents should not use statistics about arrest rates in particular communities when making decisions about where and how to focus their activities. Current and historical patterns of discriminatory law enforcement have led to higher rates of arrest in certain communities, particularly African American communities,” the documents say. Crime statistics are “inherently biased and unreliable” and using them “reproduces the very discrimination” the DOJ policy is designed to eliminate, the documents continue.
Crime statistics are race neutral. They simply reflect where crime is occurring, who is committing it and who the victims are. Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice proposes that law enforcement ignore reality because because it conflicts with the false narrative that America is racist. This condemns the law abiding people living in high-crime urban neighborhoods to more crime. We are talking about mostly black men, women and children.
Sorry folks, but in the name of social justice, more of you must be raped, robbed, beaten and murdered by criminals.
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If you want to see how not race neutral crime statistics are take a look at all of the civil settlements in which banks have settled for fraud (e.g. Wells Fargo) or enabling sex trafficking (e.g. Deutchebank). Then notice that zero people have been held criminally liable. You can look in lots of other places, from environmental crimes to wage theft. Then look at stats on drug use and compare it to arrests of drug users.
First, civil settlements have little probative value in determining whether criminal prosecution is warranted. Second, even more importantly, you have compared very different kinds of offenses with no evidence whatsoever that race is the reason for the different actions by law enforcement.