(Copies of I Can’t Breathe: How A Racial Hoax is Killing America, David Horowitz’s book, exposing the crimes of BLM are free with any purchase from the Freedom Center store.)
In the 1960s, 90% of murders were solved. That fell to 75% in 1980, and 60% in 2000. In the year of Black Lives Matter, the homicide clearance rate fell so low that it became a ‘coin flip’.
The media reported that only 50% of murders were being solved. What was less reported was that this mainly reflected a drop in solving black murders. Homicide clearance rates for white people have actually improved since the 1980s and reached a high during the Obama administration even as black homicide clearance rates dropped catastrophically.
In the 70s, 80% of the murders of black people were solved. Under Obama, only 60% were.
As the Freedom Center had previously revealed in its investigative reporting, Black Lives Matter, its allied police defunding, decarceration and decriminalization movement helped lead to a nearly 30% surge in murders with 2,244 more black people being murdered.
Despite being assaulted in the streets, defamed in the media and lynched in the courts, police tried to keep doing their jobs, but crime was rising so fast that it was impossible to keep up.
Even the pro-crime Marshall Project noted that, “from 2019 to 2020, police across the country solved 1,200 more murders, a 14% increase. But murders rose twice as quickly — by 30%.”
And solving murders was a thankless job that put police careers and lives at stake.
Meanwhile, as David Horowitz described in his book, I Can’t Breathe: How A Racial Hoax is Killing America, many police departments at a community level, with no support and unable to cope, “responded by taking defensive measures” and became “less proactive in apprehending lawbreakers” which “led to sharply increased violent crime rates nationwide”.
Accusing law enforcement of racism and reducing police services in black areas had drastic consequences for society, but most of all for the black people who were being killed.
From the 1970s, murder clearance rates for white people and Asians increased by 5%, and by 7% for Indians, but fell by 20% for black people. Racializing law enforcement made police wary about operating in black areas. Crime rose in black neighborhoods and went unpunished until parts of those communities became ‘no-go-zones’ in which gangs operated with impunity.
Black Lives Matter and the embrace of police defunding provided some brutal statistics.
The CDC revealed that, “In 2020, one out of every 1,000 young Black males (15–34) was shot and killed” and “more than half of all black teens (15–19) who died in 2020—a staggering 52%—were killed by gun violence.” This, and not the occasional viral police encounter, is actual genocide. Democrats and black nationalists had redefined policing and prisons as a form of oppression for the black community. Removing that “oppression” killed thousands of black people in one year and claimed a nearly unprecedented death toll among young black men.
Much like pulling the fire department, ambulances or running water out of black areas, limiting access to full police services in the black community led to a catastrophic death toll.
In a press release proposing a new bill to fix low homicide clearance rates with more police funding, Senator Cory Booker claimed that “since the beginning of the pandemic, there has been a rise in homicide in every part of our country” and that “agencies in rural and urban communities alike lack the proper resources to solve such heinous crimes”.
The crime wave has nothing to do with the pandemic, except insofar as the pandemic was a pretext for springing criminals from prison to protect them from COVID, and has continued even after the pandemic. No police department has enough resources to cope with a 30% increase in murders especially when the perpetrators aren’t being arrested or locked up before they kill.
The press release on Booker’s own site admits that “people of color disproportionately suffer from murders and poor clearance rates in the United States. Despite comprising 13.4 percent of the U.S. population, Black victims made up at least 46 percent of those murdered in 2020, and local and national reports show that cases involving Black and Hispanic victims go unsolved at substantially higher rates than those involving white victims.”
This isn’t an issue “in every part of our country”.
Homicide clearance rates are lowest for drug and gang violence murders. Since those make up a disproportionate number of black homicides, what Black Lives Matter activism and pro-crime legislative measures by Democrats and Republicans have done is turn over black communities to drug dealers and gang members who have been allowed to get away with murder.
Homicide doesn’t even make the CDC’s top 10 causes of death for men in America, but it’s number four for black men. Among black men under the age of 20, homicide is the leading cause of death. Most young black men are being murdered. And it’s only getting worse.
Convincing black people that the police are evil while showing them that the perpetrators operate with impunity also makes it nearly impossible to secure cooperative witnesses. And without those, murder cases are much less likely to be solved in any meaningful fashion.
More black people keep being murdered and the perpetrators keep on killing.
Black lives can’t matter, if black murders don’t matter. And since the vast majority of black murder victims are killed by black perpetrators, there’s no way to stop black murders without arresting and locking up black perpetrators. As David Horowitz wrote in, I Can’t Breathe: How A Racial Hoax is Killing America, “The false charge of ‘systemic racism’ is a convenient cover for the Left’s inability to identify actual racists directly responsible for inequalities in American life.” The inequalities in bringing the perpetrators of black murders to justice and preventing future killings can be attributed to the systemic racism of denying black people police services.
America is not racist except when it falls under the sway of leftist racists who insist on discriminating against black people by carving out separatist enclaves where policing will be managed by community activists and gangs and enforced through “redistributive justice”.
“This delusional racial fantasy, so remote from the facts, remains a principal incitement for the Black Lives Matter movement. The fact that it is believed by so many people—and so many violent people—is a threat to the cohesion of America’s communities, and to the people caught in the crosshairs of the hate,” Horowitz wrote in I Can’t Breathe: How A Racial Hoax is Killing America,
Those in the crosshairs are dying at unprecedented rates. Black lives don’t matter until black murders matter.
(Copies of I Can’t Breathe: How A Racial Hoax is Killing America, David Horowitz’s book, exposing the crimes of BLM are free with any purchase from the Freedom Center store.)
C’mon man, this is proof that institutional racism is growing.
Mr. President,
That hideous creature Lori Lightfoot is on the phone.
She’s submitted her resume’ for a job in your administration: her qualifications are that she’s black, female, gay, and grossly incompetent (the ONLY qualities you ever seem to look for.)
You have to consider that if Joe is to be considered “the smartest man in the room” there have to be others who are LESS SMART! That explains MOST of them! The others are just pure evil!
Puppets don’t have to be smart. They just have to be personable which Biden can occasionally fake. At least better than Kamala. So it’s a low bar.
BIDEN AND HARRIS – There is nothing there! They’re both sociopath gamer lawyers who can’t open their mouths without lies falling out. Did I say ‘sociopath’? There is no truth for these kind.
She’s not gay. She’s angry. That’s the way they are.
I am tired of fighting and these people to get them to behave. If they want to slaughter one another in tribal warfare let them . Every one that dies is one less we have support on welfare & in prison. What about the whites that live near them. If they are that dumb they deserve what they get. Hey dumbass don’t live near people who hate you.
Thanks for this. Therefore the big lie is responsible for murder.
I work with Black women who I’ve heard discuss their belief that police want to kill their sons to the degree that their sons have dark skin. The darker the skin the more the police supposedly want to kill them. They also discuss and how they try to protect their sons by teaching them to “ run.”
Perhaps churches or some other organization could someday reach these women.
Ive heard the same thing from black women, some of them are even educated black women living in nice areas. No doubt unaffected by racism even once in their lives.
What need or unfulfilled desire could cause this? If television and the Black Information Network radio says it is so- it is so.
The problem with the black church is that they’re part of the problem. They are part of what W.E.B. DuBois called “The Talented Tenth” who’s job it is to keep blacks under their thumb and distribute the largess given to them by the whites (taking a sizable cut for themselves first of course). The black churches worked with Margaret Sanger’s “Negro Project” (precursor to Planned Parenthood) to convince blacks to murder their own children.
The black church at this point exists solely to keep blacks voting Democrat and hating whites. They don’t care about the lives of blacks (let alone their souls).
The only solution is the red pilling of black people. Which is happening every day, but just like with the general population, it won’t work with everyone (or even the majority) but when it does we need to be there, welcoming to those blacks that have actually awakened and not merely become “woke”. If you want to help blacks you know with the red pilling, get them to read Thomas Sowell and Booker T Washington.
Yeah, a good portion of it absolutely comes out of their churches.
Thanks Cat! Running from the police is very risky.
That brought to mind a point, namely, once a no-go zone is established, what is to be done to reclaim the territory? Kinda requires extreme measures, like a military problem, or intelligent and effective measures, which the politicians are too stupid to carry out.
That’s what was happening in the 90s. Broken windows policing, stop and frisk, eminent domain, gentriciation essentially did what we tried to do in Iraq to crime no-go zones and it worked pretty well in major cities like NYC.
Thanks Daniel! One thing that just occurred to me, for example in Israel, is that a primary objective in designing and developing the road system should be to keep law-abiding citizens separate from terrorists.
Don’t forget that “snitches get stitches” — or worse. Plus some police departments have been corrupted by drug gangs themselves. Everything Giuliani accomplished in NYC has been undone…sad!
Much of it. There’s still a core cop culture but the leadership, like the military leadership, consists of careerists and appeasers, and is rotten and cowardly.
I was in law enforcement for 30 yrs. I worked in a black ghetto. There was a specific drug house that we would monitor. We’ve made arrests of the drug dealers and the people driving into the neighborhood to buy drugs.
If you can believe what I’m about to tell you, several of the drug dealers went to our internal affairs and complained that several of the police officers were “harassing” them. Of course we were harassing them. They were dealing drugs.
Our higher ups came came and told us to “leave them alone” and stop harassing them.
You can’t make this stuff up.
They know how to work the system. Or they have lawyers who do. And they understand that the command structure is weak, it’s filled with careerists who want to take credit for the work you do without any of the blame.
Thank you for your service.
Love all your commentary, Daniel.
Thank you. And glad you comment regularly.
Black Lives Matter was always Black Criminal Lives Matter. Don Lemon, back in the summer of 2020 was explaining this to a black pastor from Chicago. The pastor was complaining that the lives of his parishioners didn’t matter as they were victims of crime who needed police protection. Lemon basically said those lives don’t matter. The way he put it was: Black Lives Matter is “contextual” and refers only to those blacks who interact with the police. In other words, only black criminal lives matter; the rest don’t matter.
Can things change? Lori Lightfoot was defeated. If more blacks, like that pastor, identify with black victims and not black perpetrators, it might change.
First, however, the woke establishment has to be shamed into silence. White wokesters fund and vote for pro-criminal policies. Removing Chesa Boudin as DA of Frisco was done by minorities as voting patterns showed woke white neighborhoods voting to keep Boudin while poorer minorities voted to remove.
Criminal lives matter because leftists see criminals as the vanguard of the revolution overthrowing society.
They don’t actually care about black people as a race, they care about using them for their revolution. The Left’s identity politics is just about recruiting fifth columns from groups that may have a grudge, so initially class warfare, race warfare, gender, sexuality, etc…
Lightfoot was defeated, but she may be replaced with someone even worse.
I think it may have been Lenin who advocated releasing career criminals from prison as those individuals most dangerous to society, hence hastening the destruction of society.
Can it get any worse? Oh wait …
Before he even knew the details – by his own admission – “The police acted stupidly.”
This is his 3rd term and the final phase of “Fundamental Transformation.”
Conservatism….
Life is hard!
Suck it up buttercup!
You can do it!
I believe in you!
God, Family, Country
Liberalism….
This hard life you have is not your fault…. Blame Whitey!
Whitey sucks any chance of a gods life from you!
You cannot do this on your own. You are not capable!
I / we (government, Demoncrats) can solve this for you. We got this. Don’t worry about a thing. We will take what is owed you by force.
God…. you mean Gaia right?
Family…. you mean baby mama’s right?
Country…. tear it all down!
I am white. Come from nothing. As a child (1963) as a family we would pick the local garbage dump for things to sell.
My mother God bless her mother to 5 fatherless kids instilled in us do the best, be the best you can…. after that keep going.
I have nothing to apologize for.
I have no debt to my black brethren to pay.
There are 2 genders.
My pronouns are…
He
Him,
Sir,
Mr.
Male
Man is wicked and evil. We are inherently bad.
Father forgive us for we know what we do.
Our treatment of our children during this moment in history will be a rotting albatross around our necks until the day we die.
There are not going to be enough millstones when this bill comes due.
Correction….
Whitey sucks any chance of a “GOOD” life from you
That’s it Greenfield! Even though you are correct, you are going to get it like Scott Adams of Dilbert.
No mainstream media outlet would publish me anyway so not a major concern.
BLM is a terrorist organization.
Their main goal is to let the black criminals walk free, and get free stuff on top of that.
It’s been working well so far.
Remember when BO invited them to the White House? The reason BLM is still out there and preparing for the next event is Barack Obama. They know he has their back. They also know who the real POTUS is.
This nation is run by a cabal of black racists who have sworn a loyalty oath to the gay Satanist, sometime Muslim, BHO.
The black family without a convicted felon is rare. One third of all black men have felony convictions. Who knows how many more are simply evading arrest? Virtually every black family in America has a son, uncle, brother, cousin or father who is a felon. These families believe they and their criminal members are victims of racism, not their own poor decisions. The criminal economy is easier to access and pays better for these men. Prison sentences stop the flow of money for the most part.
I can think of no other reason for blacks so zealously to defend black criminals.
If crime did not pay, if enforcement was color blind, if police were honored, supported and paid well, everybody would prosper.
Blacks are tools for satanic islam…
My sister–all 105/110 Jewish pounds of her–was an Oakland, CA cop for eight years. She spent the entire time being buffeted by the contradictory, ineffective orders and outright venality and stupidity of her superiors and the reality of rampant criminality–and the criminal mentality–she dealt with on the streets. She finally quit in despair.
I give your sister a LOT of credit – to be a cop, a Jewish and female one in a progressive heIIhole. In 2005 I had a wonderful trip to Israel, on a tour with Shomrim, with many former and some who were actively working as police then. What a beautiful, memorable and wonderful trip – with GREAT people:-)
you probably know but Shomrim is an organization of Jewish police.
8 years in Oakland? One of the worst places I know of to be a police officer (I was born there).
Its brutal. A very corrupt place. She moved on to Foster City then quite law enforcement–her life’s dream–altogether. All of her cop friends (most of whom I know) are deeply demoralized right now.
Very sad that the black influencers are the likes of Ophra, Lebron, Al Sharpton and Snoop Dog. All have somehow became famous and wealthy in a country that’s systematically racist. How is that possible, when these “influencers” spread the narrative that blacks are oppressed and victims of the white devils.
It’s quite sad that men like Dr Ben Carson, Thomas Sowell and Justice Clarence Thomas are not held up as the gold standard of black achievement. They and others less well known have some how made it too and tout those principles and values that make achievement a very real possibility. Why do so many other black Americans buy into the lies that keep them down, out and stuck to a life amongst criminals?
It’s a matter of personal responsibility. It was “excused” in 1964. The Democrats deemed blacks as incapable of supporting themselves and took on the mantle of Daddy by providing most of life’s necessities. Fathers were banned from the home, food comes in the form of stamps, high-rise slums became home and the “oppressed” mantra became the mentality. It is rumored LBJ said, after the Great Society bill passed: “We’ll have those N’s eating out of our hands for the next one hundred years”. We are now into our third generation of victims of this social engineering project and it’s only getting worse. Unless, that is, you are a Marxist progressive.
When the pendulum swings the other way , and it always swings both ways, it will be bloody. Unless, of course history teaches us nothing. Chinese Muslims were exempt from the one child policy, now they are in concentration camps and serve as living organ warehouses.
” First we have to clean up the neighborhood”… Malcolm X… and look what the black leaders had done to him.
Negroes in America need to learn that success is the best revenge and stop blaming everybody else for their problems which they have created for themselves as I have never see any white guys or KKK types strolling into the ‘Hood and shooting up the gangbangers hanging out on the street corner dealing Nickel and Dime Bags of Dope.
Playing that victim victim game is getting real old.
black olives matter.
Black olives do matter. Soooooo much.