Facing The Truth

The common denominator among city, state and federal governments controlled by democrats is the belief that the criminal justice system is systemically racist.  To prove this, politicians and activists cite government data on traffic stops, arrests, prosecutions and sentences which uniformly show that blacks, which make up 13% of the U.S. population, are many times more likely to interact with law enforcement than other races.  To them, all races commit crimes proportional to their share of the population.  To honor this narrative politicians and democrat voters have enacted and enforced policies to eliminate traffic stops, reduce arrests and prosecutions and reduce or eliminate sentences for all but the most violent crimes.  Manhattan Institute scholar Heather MacDonald wrote about this recently in City Journal, noting how these policies and this narrative came to a head in the summer of 2020 with the George Floyd riots.  Crime has increased dramatically since then and the vastly disproportionate number of victims and the criminals that victimized them were black.  The country’s leaders need to publicly admit this.

Those black victims are not being gunned down by America’s alleged white supremacists or by the police; they are being gunned down by other blacks, at rates equally disproportionate to the black population share. Providing justice to those black victims will require putting more black criminals in prison.

The next attorney general should challenge Black Lives Matter activists to say the names of the dozens of black children slain in drive-by shootings by blacks since the 2020 George Floyd riots. When Al Sharpton and civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump came to Minneapolis to commemorate the first anniversary of Floyd’s death, the attorney general should ask, why did they avoid a hospital in North Minneapolis where a ten-year-old boy and a nine-year-old girl were in adjacent rooms, having both been shot in the head in separate drive-bys? The girl died a few days after the Sharpton-Crump visit; the boy will be disabled for life. Their lives mattered, too, but they are of no interest to the race agitators.

Speaking the truth about black crime is politically incorrect in some circles but until the truth is acknowledged, no effort to reduce crime can succeed.