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Jason Riley of the WSJ is one of the brightest and most honest observers of the real story with crime, race and policing.\u00a0 His column<\/a> today about Chicago’s murder crisis is short but devastating.\u00a0 I repeat excerpts after the break, but the entire column is worth the read.\u00a0 Here’s a sample:<\/p>\n

The political left, with a great deal of assistance from the mainstream media, has convinced many Americans that George Floyd\u2019s death in police custody is an everyday occurrence for black people in this country, and that racism permeates law enforcement. The reality is that the carnage we witness in Chicago is what\u2019s typical, law enforcement has next to nothing to do with black homicides, and the number of interactions between police and low-income blacks is driven by crime rates, not bias. According to the Sun-Times, there were 492 homicides in Chicago last year, and only three of them involved police.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Chicago has long been one of the nation\u2019s most dangerous big cities, and it seems determined to keep that distinction.<\/p>\n

The Chicago Sun-Times reports that 18 people were killed on one Sunday, May 31, \u201cmaking it the single most violent day in Chicago in six decades.\u201d Over the full weekend, \u201c25 people were killed in the city, with another 85 wounded by gunfire.\u201d None of these deaths or shootings involved police, so there will be no massive protests over them, no tearful commentary on cable news and social media, no white politicians wrapped in Kente cloth taking a knee for photographers….<\/p>\n

So long as blacks are committing more than half of all murders and robberies while making up only 13% of the population, and so long as almost all of their victims are their neighbors, these communities will draw the lion\u2019s share of police attention. Defunding the police, or making it easier to prosecute officers, will only result in more lives lost in those neighborhoods that most need protecting….<\/p>\n

There\u2019s nothing wrong with having a debate about better policing strategies, how to root out bad cops, the role of police unions and so forth. But that conversation needs perspective and context, and the press rarely provides it. People are protesting because the public has been led to believe that racist cops are gunning for blacks, yet the available evidence shows that police use of deadly force has plunged in recent decades, including in big cities with large populations of low-income minorities. In the early 1970s, New York City police officers shot more than 300 people a year. By 2019 that number had fallen to 34.<\/p>\n

Part of the confusion stems from attempts to equate any racial disparities with racism, which is as mistaken as equating age and gender disparities with systemic discrimination. Young people are incarcerated at higher rates than older people, and men draw more police attention than women. Is something fishy going on here, or do such outcomes simply reflect the fact that young men are behind most violent crimes? When journalists break down police behavior by race but don\u2019t do the same for criminal behavior, you\u2019re not getting the whole story.<\/p>\n

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Jason Riley of the WSJ is one of the brightest and most honest observers of the real story with crime, race and policing.\u00a0 His column today about Chicago’s murder crisis is short but devastating.\u00a0 I repeat excerpts after the break, but the entire column is worth the read.\u00a0 Here’s a sample: The political left, with a great deal of assistance from the mainstream media, has convinced many Americans that George Floyd\u2019s death in police custody is an everyday occurrence for black people in this country, and that racism permeates law enforcement. The reality is that the carnage we witness in Chicago is what\u2019s typical, law enforcement has next to nothing to do with black homicides, and the number of interactions between police and low-income blacks is driven by crime rates, not bias. 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