From a Politico chat with Rep. Steven Horsford of the Congressional Black Caucus demanding a crackdown on the police.
We have our Asian American brothers and sisters who are being targeted, Latinos who are being targeted, communities who don’t feel safe. And we need to be able to address public safety for everyone. And it may have been Tyre Nichols yesterday; it could be you or anyone else tomorrow.
The trouble is that Asian Americans are largely being targeted by black men, the sort of thugs and career criminals who roam the streets and assault innocent people without a strong police presence and a working criminal justice system that locks them up.
Now the reality is that the vast majority of black people dying violent deaths are being killed by the same folks. The statistics on this have been abundantly clear for years and it’s what everyone knows quite well.
Relatively few unarmed people of any race are killed by police officers. The vast majority are killed by people whom the police and a functioning criminal justice system could have stopped.
Rep. Steven Horsford, like a lot of black Democrats, however, defines public safety as the inability of the police to provide public safety for everyone else. (Including black people.)
Those are two very different definitions of public safety.
And one thing we’ve been doing in the BLM era is trying out the black nationalist model of public safety with pro-crime legislation, decriminalization, revolving door arrests, empty prisons, bail funds and restorative justice.
The crime wave we’re living through is entirely the result of this pro-crime project. And nobody feels safe.
The question is how many people of all races have to die, be beaten, raped, robbed and assaulted for Tyre Nichols, for George Floyd or for any of the other “martyrs” who pop up every few months?
That’s a serious question because we have the numbers on the criminal justice reform death toll.
The Black Lives Matter movement and the allied criminal justice reform movement which opened jails and decriminalized crimes led to a nearly 30% surge in murders in 2020.
3,595 black people were murdered in 2019. But in 2020, 5,839 black people were murdered.
That’s an additional 2,244 black people killed.
3,060 white and Latino people were killed in 2019, which rose to 4,167 in 2020.
Black perpetrators were responsible for 5,832 murders or approximately 50% of the murders despite making up only around 13% of the population.
White people and Latinos who make up 76% of the country accounted for 3,981 homicides or 34%. American Indians were responsible for 116 murders and Asians for only 65 murders.
Again, how many people need to die each year for the sake of the pro-crime version of public safety?
Is 3,000 okay? What about 10,000? Can we just live in a constant ‘purge’ the way so many urban residents already do?
Should thousands of people die every year to make sure that a handful of police brutality deaths don’t occur?
Let’s talk hard numbers.
George Floyd’s drug overdose death while being restrained by police probably killed over 2,000 black people and another 1,000 white and Latinos.
How many thousands should die for Tyre Nichols?
If talking about thousands sounds abstract, let’s get into grimmer statistics.
“In 2020, one out of every 1,000 young Black males (15–34) was shot and killed.”
“More than half of all black teens (15–19) who died in 2020—a staggering 52%—were killed by gun violence,” it shockingly observes.
You want actual genocide? BLM is delivering it. It’s hurting all people, but it’s hitting black people hardest.
I don’t want to live in a police state. Unfortunately, those of us in urban or suburban areas are stuck with one as long as we have a percentage of the population that is relentlessly engaged in crime and violence.
It has nothing to do with racism, systemic or otherwise, just ask those “Asian-American brothers and sisters” who live with this. The only answer anyone has come up with to this is using the police to prevent the worst of it. As unpleasant as that is, the cold hard numbers show what the alternative is.
Thousands of deaths. That can escalate to tens of thousands.
No magical thinking, gun control, root causes, systemic racism or critical race theory is coming to fix this. Maybe rebuilding stable families would work, but that would require fixing our culture which currently celebrates destroying the family. So here we are.
So perhaps the CBC and BLM can tell us how many people they think should die each year.
It wasn’t just BLM that opened up jails to let out criminals, it was Trump’s First Step Plan, that did the same, and is still doing so..
Bullshit. That’s a distortion of the truth. He freed people who’d been handed down excessive sentences for non violent crimes. He didn’t free violent felons or make it nearly impossible to make arrests and hand down appropriate sentences for violent criminals and thieves.
You’re full of shit.
Not in a large way. It reviewed individual cases for worthy people with harsh sentences . We, the people, (unlike you the communist with TDS), truly want to help worthy people. As did President Trump.
The First Step Act was a mistake, but the consequences were not crystal clear to everyone at the time. But many people did warn against it
The consequences now are 100% crystal clear. The Left isn’t pursuing freeing criminals because it doesn’t know better
It knows the damage it did and that’s why it’s pushing it
Las year nineteen unarmed whites were killed by police but only 3 blacks were. And all three were violent, out of control and ignored police commands because they felt entitled to. That sounds racist against whites because it is but it’s even worse than it seems. Despite only comprising twelve to thirteen percent of the population, blacks used to commit fifty three percent of all crime, particularly violent crime. After the 2020 “Summer of love” orgy of violence and the current thirty percent rise in crime, particularly violent crime, the current figure is obviously higher than fifty three percent, not that the current administration will allow the FBI to keep accurate figures anymore.
Representative Steve Horsford need to go suck a bag of white dicks.
This site clearly shows that your lying again. In 2022 the police are know to have killed 100 unarmed people.
https://policeviolencereport.org/
Of that 100 31 were black, 19 Hispanic, 3 were Asian/Pacific Islander, white were 39 with the remaining 7 of unknown race/ethnicity. As a percentage of the population black people came out the worst.
Then your conclusion is just you letting your homosexuality slip. Again.
Could you lie any harder? Everything you you wrote was unsubstantiated bullshit. Prove a word of it, you cock sucker motherfucker. You can’t, because you’re a liar.
Leftists are scum.
You were sucking your thumb and crying when you wrote this.
I provided a link. It has information. Have someone read it for you Jeff.
BLM is a racist terrorist organizations. Their main goal is to let the black criminals to get away with their crimes, and get some free stuff on top of that.
They could care less if just about everybody else died or was raped and robbed.
BLM actually WANTS us whiteys to be raped, robbed and murdered.
That was one of the main features of the tribal wars against the British during the colonial period. It sets an example for the tribe members to emulate, and increases the intensity of the conflict, etc.
Yeah, I read about that. It was a horror story, in my opinion.
It’s part of a low-intensity civil war, which the radical left is inciting using race.
In true commie fashion. They learned that tactic from them.
Like the black wars in Africa against the British during the colonial period. The blacks had superior numbers and inferior weapons, the British had better weapons and tactics but lesser numbers, and were often very good soldiers.
Now the whites have gone soft, and the blacks are well armed with guns and knives and such.
Lenin didn’t fully realize how dangerous race wars between blacks and whites were, for the whites, probably because he had only lived in white countries. Now the radical left has realized that race wars are the most effective weapon they have.
Yes. “While we were sleeping.”
I love it when blacks attempt to use Latins, Asians, and other groups as victims of white cops/white supremacy to make their hoax of a case better for themselves. Latins hate blacks. “Brown people”, i.e., Mexicans, etc, hate blacks. Look no further than South Central LA.. Asians hate blacks. Always have. Anywhere Asians have set up shop blacks have terrorized them. Most Asians are small in stature so it’s easy prey.
I remember reading an essay from a Korean lady in CA where she described the constant harassment, assaults and thefts perpetrated by blacks.
What’s really infuriating is everyone knows blacks commit more hate crimes (and all crimes) than other groups. Whites, Hispanics, Asians, gays, women, you name it are all victims of blacks. Yet, everyone has to put this big facade on that it’s white people, and cops, oppressing everyone.,
I couldn’t have said it better myself. All true. I live at street level so I see the truth the fake news media lie about.
Name one black ruled country or city that is peaceful, low crime, with well maintained public parks, sanitation, water, electricity and transportation.
Wakanda?……………………………
Name one that wasn’t colonized.
I colonized your mom. Deep up in her.
Let’s see. Where did I put that? Ah, here it is:
“Yeah, he’s always been such a blowhard. Many weaklings are. They stupidly think it conceals their weakness when it actually highlights it.”
Yes, thousands should die for whatever the Left wants … might as well kill a few thousand more … because they’re already killing people on an industrial scale – not counting abortion, Covid-1984, or the Ukraine (Make China Greater) War …
so why not? …
Nuclear War … if it only saves Hunter Biden …
Who cares about the millions or the billions who die – those are just numbers!
/sarc alert for those who might not recognize my handle …
Everyone here have a great Black History Month! … 😉
It’s not a matter of should only when
Greenfield is working hard for those chicken tendies. Maybe D.Hoe screamed at him again so he decided to add numbers to this blog post. Problem, is you use the numbers like you’re from some kind of cargo cult. You know they mean something but have no clue.
Let’s assume the numbers that don’t involve hysterical speculation on your part are actually real. Here’s the problem all that killing and dying is going on right now. With ever increasing police budgets, more weapons, more equipment and more police killings the crime stats you pretend to care about are the same. Literally, the best you can do is assume the violence would go up if we ended our current model of policing.
That’s the hysteria and speculation I mentioned before. See, that’s something called for shadowing and… Oh, you’re drooling again. Anyway.
Everyone with half a brain (so that excludes FPMers) know the role of the police is not to prevent crimes are solve them. It’s to keep those in power today in power tomorrow. Crime mitigation (insofar as they actually do that) is a side hustle.
We tested the theory that tough on crime and broken windows policing actually reduces crime and the death rate in the 90s.
The results were spectacular and led to the revival of major American cities and record low crime rates.
Then your boys tested the theory that freeing all the criminals and refusing to enforce laws would make society better and thousands more people died.
Anyone with half a brain would work out the consequences. Fortunately lefties don’t believe in consequences. It allows you to perpetrate horrifying policies and then pretend that nothing in the world could possibly change them.
“We tested the theory that tough on crime and broken windows policing actually reduces crime and the death rate in the 90s.”
This tough on crime nonsense started when Reagan ramped up the drug war in the ’80s.
“The results were spectacular and led to the revival of major American cities and record low crime rates.”
Yeah, righties have been patting themselves on the back for that. This drop occurred when Clinton was in charge but that’s un-history, right? The removal of lead from the environment correlated with the drop in crime. The US had started to recover from the chaos of Reaganomics and other factors contributed to the overall downward trend. Also, the broken windows policy was based on an academic study that was fraudulent. They rigged the results to get the desired outcome.
“Then your boys tested the theory that freeing all the criminals and refusing to enforce laws would make society better and thousands more people died.”
You’re a liar, Greenfield. Nobody “[freed] all the criminals” and it’s been well documented that the police stopped enforcing the law as mass punishment for the 2020 protests. It’s also worth noting the crime spike started with Trump so what does that say about the right?
You are legitimately bad at this. No wonder you work for D.Hoe. You can’t find a job anywhere else in the field due to your own incompetence.
How many dicks have you sucked today? A lot, i bet.
Yeah, he’s always been such a blowhard. Many weaklings are. They stupidly think it conceals their weakness when it actually highlights it.