Thursday, December 30, 2010

Crime Down, Unemployment Up across America: Remembering Trooper Chadwick LeCroy

 Crime rates falling; unemployment rising: what gives?
USA Today's above-fold, front page story yesterday dealt with crime dropping nationwide. It is commonly accepted - though completely inaccurate - that crime increases when unemployment rises. If only this were true then we might have an explanation for why Black crime rates are as bad as they are (and why movies and fiction utilize military pathogens in their plots to destabilize populations when reality requires no weaponized hallucinogens to bring majority Black cities to the verge of anarchy) since Black unemployment is so astoundingly high.

USA Today reports:
When Washington debates whether America is safe, the focus now is usually on the increasing threat of terrorism — not violent crime.
That has largely obscured some good news about violent crime: Across the nation, homicide rates have dropped to their lowest levels in nearly a generation. And overall violent crime has sunk to its lowest level since 1973, Justice Department statistics show.

The reductions have continued despite a grinding recession, a slow economic recovery and spikes in gang membership, according to recently released FBI figures for the first half of 2010.

The long-term trend is particularly striking in the nation's three largest cities —New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. Homicides in New York have dropped 79% during the past two decades — from 2,245 in 1990 to 471 in 2009, the last full year measured. Chicago is down 46% during that period, from 850 to 458. Los Angeles is down 68%, from 983 to 312.

The reductions, especially in New York, have been so dramatic that violent crime virtually has disappeared from the national political discourse.

"It certainly did not emerge in the (November) midterm elections, and it hasn't been an issue of national public concern since at least 2000," Carnegie Mellon University criminologist Alfred Blumstein says.

Analysts say a range of factors have helped to tamp down violent crime. Among them: improved crime-mapping technology that has allowed police to deploy officers more efficiently at a time when many law enforcement resources are being directed toward anti-terror programs; crackdowns on gangs and community outreach programs that are being credited with thwarting serious crimes.

And then there have been factors beyond the control of police: a booming economy for much of the past two decades, and the absence of gang-fueled wars over a drug of the moment, such as the turf battles over crack cocaine that led to unprecedented urban violence in the 1980s and '90s.

For all the good news, in America's three biggest cities the two-decade free-fall in homicides has not erased public insecurity about violent crime. The prospect of prolonged economic woes raise troubling questions about whether violent crime could rise again, and some recent trends that affect residents' quality of life have been unsettling.
It is impolite to acknowledge what the data for crime portends, highly unpalatable to Disingenuous White Liberals (DWLs) - you haven't truly lived until you've made someone cry or fidget uncomfortably in their chair for pointing out which racial group commits a disproportionate amount of the petty, violent and inter-racial crime in America -  and ruinous to those who place credence in the argument that nurture forever trumps nature.

The reverse has happened. Crime rates are falling, coincidentally at the same time the prisons across America are filling up with those incapable of abiding the law (recidivism rates and a three strikes your out policy adding to the mix).

Crime has dropped during the largest recession in the past 60 years, despite warnings from sociologist, pundits and those engaging in wishful thinking that rates of crime would rise with prolonged and continuously rising unemployment. Unemployment for Black people (and recent Black college graduates) is reaching levels not seen in scores of years.

The reverse has happened.

Why has crime dropped in America, when unemployment continuous to get worse each and every day? Perhaps because a large percentage of the would-be criminals are currently locked away in jail?:

With approximately 2.3 million people in prison or jail, the United States incarcerates more people than any other country in the world—by far. Our per capita rate is six times greater than Canada’s, eight times greater than France’s, and twelve times greater than Japan’s. Here, at least, we are an undisputed world leader; we have a 40 percent lead on our closest competitors—Russia and Belarus.


Even so, the imprisoned make up only two thirds of one percent of the nation’s general population. And most of those imprisoned are poor and uneducated, disproportionately drawn from the margins of society. For the vast majority of us, in other words, the idea that we might find ourselves in jail or prison is simply not a genuine concern. 

For one group in particular, however, these figures have concrete and deep-rooted implications—African-Americans, especially young black men, and especially poor young black men. African-Americans are 13 percent of the general population, but over 50 percent of the prison population. Blacks are incarcerated at a rate eight times higher than that of whites—a disparity that dwarfs other racial disparities. (Black–white disparities in unemployment, for example, are 2–1; in nonmarital childbirth, 3–1; in infant mortality, 2–1; and in net worth, 1–51). 
In the 1950s, when segregation was still legal, African-Americans comprised 30 percent of the prison population. Sixty years later, African-Americans and Latinos make up 70 percent of the incarcerated population, and that population has skyrocketed. The disparities are greatest where race and class intersect—nearly 60 percent of all young black men born between 1965 and 1969 who dropped out of high school went to prison at least once on a felony conviction before they turned thirty-five. And the incarceration rate for this group—black male high school dropouts—is nearly fifty times the national average.2

DWLs and Black Excuse Makers (BEMs) are constantly flabbergasted and astounded at the high rates of Black incarceration, never accepting that high rates of Black criminal activity are to blame instead of overzealous police forces the nation over intent on preying upon law-abiding Black people merely for the crime of having an ebony epidermis.
High rates of Black incarceration keeping crime down?

Hiring more police (falling tax revenue could end these gains) and putting criminals in jail has helped send crime on a downward spiral, while unemployment and poverty have increased:
Here is a curious thing about that increasing poverty, though -- and it's something that has received very little press attention: It has not resulted in a higher crime rate. In fact, according to the FBI, even as unemployment was spiking during 2009, the rate of murders, rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults declined by 4.4 percent compared with the previous year. As even the Washington Post acknowledged, the conventional wisdom for many decades has been that "economic trouble breeds lawlessness."

In 1967, President Lyndon Johnson's Crime Commission declared that "Warring on poverty, inadequate housing, and unemployment is warring on crime. A civil rights law is a law against crime. Money for schools is money against crime." New York City Mayor John V. Lindsay, a liberal Republican, agreed, saying, "If we are to eliminate the crime and violence in this country, we must eliminate the hopelessness, futility, and alienation from which they spring." Thousands of professors, journalists, politicians, and community activists assured us that crime would not be controlled until the "causes of crime" were addressed.

But starting in the early l990s, crime rates began a steep decline and the recession has not interrupted that trend. What happened? Did we successfully vanquish hopelessness, futility, and alienation? The numbers, as the Christian Science Monitor observed, have left "a lot of criminologists scratching their heads." They've speculated, not completely implausibly, that higher unemployment levels translate to more people at home and fewer opportunities for property crimes, and (less convincingly) that social programs like "community outreach programs" are paying off.

Conservatives, for our part, have argued that smarter policing and tougher sentencing of career criminals accounts for falling crime rates. From 1991 to 2004, for example, New York City saw its violent crime rate decline by 75 percent. Starting in the 1980s, communities across the country have hired more police, passed tougher sentencing laws, and kept criminals in prison longer.

Since 1980, America's prison population has increased by 350 percent, while the overall population has risen by 33 percent. By contrast, as political scientist James Q. Wilson points out, during the same period, Great Britain made a big effort to reduce its prison population. During the following decade, Great Britain's crime rate spiked, while ours declined.
England's prison population is intentionally reduced, leaving the dwindling Anglo-Saxon population there at the mercy of an unmentionable criminal problem (yes, Black crim) that plagues Albion's Seed across the Atlantic.

Many have expressed consternation as to why crime rates are failing during the recession, though one simple explanation is that those breaking the law are receiving harsher sentences. Some have argued that high abortion rates in certain segments of the population that break the law have cut crime, but we'll leave that theory to more interested parties.

A toleration of criminality has never been part of the American fabric and it should surprise no one that Black crime rates of today are similar to what they were 100- years ago. Reading Dwight Murphy's monograph "Lynching - History and Analysis" one is shocked to learn that high Black crime rates and not insidiously robed white people were behind the majority of historical lynchings:
In Lynching – History and Analysis (1995) Wichita State University professor Dwight Murphey refutes the case that lynchings were largely a result white of racism. People often resorted to lynching because the authorities were a long ride away, and President Andrew Jackson himself sanctioned the practice when he recommended to Iowa settlers that they lynch murderers. Likewise in Kansas, a New York Tribune correspondent reported in 1858 that "[t]here is a very general disposition to pass over the hopelessly useless forms of Territorial law and corrupt Federal courts, and try these parties (i.e. horse-thieves) by Lynch law."

Prof. Murphey notes that contrary to current assumptions, blacks also formed lynch gangs, mostly to lynch blacks, but sometimes to lynch whites. In Clarksdale, Tennessee, blacks lynched a white in 1914 for raping a black woman. The authorities later ruled that this was justifiable homicide. In 1872 in Chicot County, Arkansas, armed blacks broke three whites out of jail and shot them to death.
Nor was lynching by any means a sport in which any black was fair game. In Tennessee in 1911, four white men hanged a black man and his two daughters for no good reason. This outrage roused the ire of the community; the whites were tried and two were hanged.

It is true that blacks were lynched more often than whites, but, as is the case today, blacks were also more likely to commit violent crimes, so even if lynching had been entirely race-blind, the number of executions would still have been racially unbalanced. Prof. Murphey cites black homicide rates in 1921-22 for Atlanta, Birmingham, Memphis and New Orleans per 100,000 that were 102.2, 97.2, 116.9 and 46.7 respectively. This corresponded to white rates of 15.0, 28.0, 29.6, and 8.4. According to Murphey, “These figures are eloquent testimony that serious crime was the primary provocation for lynching.” Even W.E.B. DuBois wrote disparagingly of "a class of black criminals, loafers, and ne'er-do-wells who are a menace to their fellows, both black and white."

With this in mind we at Stuff Black People Don't Like remember Georgia State Trooper Chadwick LeCroy, the victim of not only DWLs and BEMs continued indifference to reality, but yet another white person gunned down by a Black person whose name will never carry the gravity and weight of Emmit Till or James Byrd.

Habitual Black criminal Gregory Evans gunned down Officer LeCroy and in the process garnered his 19th arrest:
Before he was charged Tuesday with killing a state trooper, Gregory Favors had been arrested three times this year after trying to flee police, court records show.


Each time, Favors obtained bond in Fulton County. Each time a pretrial services officer had recommended against it, court records show.
The three arrests this year are among 18 times Favors has been arrested dating back to the 1990s. His 19th arrest this week was for the murder of Trooper First Class Chadwick LeCroy, who was shot after police say he had pursued Favors on Bolton Road.
Favors’ prior convictions include cocaine possession and distribution, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, fleeing and attempting to elude police, making false statements, forgery, obstruction of justice and tampering with evidence, court records show.
In a statement issued Wednesday, Fulton Chief Judge Cynthia Wright noted that the Superior Court Pretrial Services had recommended Favors not be released. She said the judges were “saddened” by the shooting, but they declined to comment further on the case since it will likely be coming before them. Wright said the court is currently reviewing information related to Favors and his history in the Atlanta Judicial Circuit.

The color of crime in America isn't the white face you see maliciously breaking into homes on home security commercial (ADT), but primarily a Black face.

It's time to admit the obvious that can be easily extrapolated from this data: some people are predisposed to wanton violence. And that is truly the Stuff Black People Don't Like to hear, though their community is awash in Black-on-Black violence (Black-on-white violence rarely happens, right?).

As 2010 comes to a close, we remember Trooper LeCroy. Unlike Till, Byrd, the Jena Six and countless other Black people whose names are constantly invoked to fan the flames of Black Run America (BRA), your death will only be remembered by Those Who Can See. 







27 comments:

Stuff Black People Don't Like said...

http://blogs.kansascity.com/crime_scene/2010/12/dial-m-for-murder-or-meh.html#comments#ixzz19cuWGvex

I forgot to include this gem, a web site that breaks down the crime figures and demographic information of major cities.

Anonymous said...

SBPDL, of all your great work, this is your absolute best! Fantastic column!

Anonymous said...

Where do I begin? This is a wonderful post!!!!

Blue Eyed Devil said...

LOL....I see ADT has jumped on the Broadview/Brinks security bandwagon and made sure to have an image of a shadowy white guy breaking into a home. We all know that a sketchy looking black person would never break into a home and steal something in order to feed a voracious drug habit. Maybe next time they can have an image of a fucking Neo-Nazi skinhead pedeophile thief.

White Guy said...

Can you believe this guy is classified as White??!!

http://www.dc.state.fl.us/ActiveInmates/detail.asp?Bookmark=24&From=list&SessionID=868473758

Anonymous said...

Blue Eyed Devil,

How about the ACTOR portraying the burglar wear gloves and a fencing mask or a welding hood. In the meantime just pretend the dude is Mexican.LOL! Also since you Skin heads hate Jews that could be a less upsetting explanation for the use of a non black ACTOR.

This has less to do with a racial "conspiracy" than a company using what has been proven to be an effective ad campaign. Also if you think about it. How many blacks do you see on commercials period?

Wait a minute! Are you calling for more black actors on television?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjgLb0HJ3VE

Does this commercial annoy you as much as it annoys me?

White burglars are real. The scene in this Sunny Delight commercial is total fiction.

Didn't it violate the "token rule" of only one black kid?

-Black guy

Anonymous said...

If those judges are "saddened" by the murder of Trooper LeCroy by a proto-human ( a proto-human that was loose and unsupervised due to the actions of said judges ),I have an idea.

Instead of saddling the taxpayers of the State of Georgia with Trooper LeCroy's pension,why don't the judges responsible for this tragedy club up and assume responsibility for the support of those left behind?

This sounds very reasonable to me. These idiots turned the perpetrator loose,and not just one time. They screwed up,and screwed up repeatedly,and did it over a long period of time. If I Were In Charge,those judges would have their pay docked,and the money sent to the surviving family. And make damn good and certain that the amount is adjusted for inflation,cost of living increases,and every other thing that can be thought up to make these incompetent bastards howl.

Ex Gladio Libertas

Anonymous said...

-Black guy said January 1, 2011, at 1:36 PM: "White burglars are real."

Oh, yeah, they sure are. I'll bet your neighborhood is just crawling with them too.

I'm pretty sure I have an eye-rolling icon on my desktop here somewhere.

--Mencken--

WestSiderATL said...

I've been reading the posts on this site for quite some time now...and I am ready to out "Black Guy" as a DWL. The meter of his speech alone gives him away.

Second..."How many blacks do you see on commercials period?"

--Whhaaat??? Are you kidding? Have you watched television for the past few years? Blacks are so far over-represented in commercials and print ads it is absurd.

White Guy said...

"How many blacks do you see on commercials period?"

Are you serious??? Judging by all the blacks on TV, you'd think we were in Africa.

We live in a culture of complete negrophilia - make no mistake about it.

I agree with West - Black Guy is a DWL.

Anonymous said...

I doubt black guy is a DWL. He endorses racial separation and societal homogeneity. DWL's love endorsing the fictitious benefits of diversity and integration.

"Africa for Africans, Asia for Asians, Latin America for Latinos, Israel for Jews, White Countries for Everybody."

Cultural genocide, its sickening. Anyway, BG seems like a throwback to the old school Black Panther movement advocating success and separation.

-GB

Anonymous said...

White guy,

Unless you are speaking for the old lady that has yet to figure out her converter box and her TV is stuck on TBS during a Tyler Perry marathon. The rest of us have satellite or digital cable. We get more than three channels.

The reality is you can count the number of "black shows" on one hand.

One is of course too many. I understand totally.

-Black guy

Anonymous said...

Mencken,

I find it really interesting you didn't comment on my main point.

"The scene in this Sunny Delight commercial is total fiction."

Black/white relationships platonic or other wise are bullshit.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjgLb0HJ3VE

-Black guy

Anonymous said...

"How many blacks do you see on commercials period? "

My spouse and I were sitting watching TV during the Christmas season and were amazed at how many blacks were in commercials. Blacks planning for retirement wearing pastel cardigans and playing golf, black actors portraying black "families" playing board games and Twister, blacks talking about investments, banking, taking hikes in the mountains, talking to the white postman about shipping rates, blacks with brand new cars wrapped in red bows in the driveway on Christmas morning.

You would think that blacks are 50% of the population. I think that blacks are as overrepresented in TV commercials as they are in government jobs. Black Guy, you are a victimologist through and through. Did you ever read the Shelby Steele book I recommended to you and Desiree? Here it is again:

http://books.google.com/books?id=AesvNzeZ1CIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=shelby+steele&hl=en&ei=0n8gTZGEG4SvnAekjJ2FDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false

You are lying to yourself and to us. Happy reading.

Anonymous said...

"Also since you Skin heads hate Jews that could be a less upsetting explanation for the use of a non black ACTOR."

WHOA WHOA !!! Mr. Black Guy, why do bring up skin-heads hating Jews?!? That's crazy talk. I've never seen anything anti-semitic on this site. It is possible to be racist towards a troublesome group of people and NOT be a Nazi, you know?

You must have slept through the history lessons in high school. Nazi philosophy was Nationalist, not racist. Hitler was responsible for killing MILLIONS more white people than all the Jews, queers, gypsies and retards put together (x2).

... idiot ...


The Engineer

Anonymous said...

I disagree Engineer, Stalin, Churchill, and Rosenfelt, along with their handlers are responsible for all the death and destruction during WWII.

Anonymous said...

"Black/white relationships platonic or other wise are bullshit."

Yes, bullshit, very well said. I find this to be true as I work very hard to get the hell away from blacks and their black behaviors and all the shit that follows them.

Because I am used to living in a Western European civilized society, I will not expose myself to loud talking, psychopathic and mentally ill behavior, foul language and black speak, and loud gangsta rap music. I will not place my children in schools full of unruly illegitimate black youths who are not interested in an education and bring down the averages with their lower IQ levels. I will not patronize businesses and restaurants where blacks congregate.

I avoid black criminals, beggars, welfare queens, unruly violent hordes of children and teens, black muslim/Islam radicals, trashy ghetto neighborhoods, thugs, hustlers, prostitutes, anti-intellectuals, victimologists, racists, drug dealers and thieves.

Now, based on your unusually mild mannered posts, Black Guy, I might be willing to share space with you in the world, but we shall never be friends. I know like every other white from personal experience that blacks are seething with hatred for whites, are victims of "The Man", their oppressor, the ones who are responsible for their plight. As an American taxpayer, I am forced to help blacks financially, but that is always from a distance.

I am sure you, like all blacks, are constantly scheming for your revenge, affirmative outcome programs, minority entitlements, and hustling for reparations pay. That gets old really fast.

And yes I live in a mixed city with a 34% black urban population that is mostly on welfare, corrupt, terminally poverty stricken for generations, prone to criminality, and very poorly behaved.

Anonymous said...

The Engineer,


Lets not be coy. There are more than a few Skin heads or people "open" to Skin head philosophies that post comments on this site.

True Hitler was a Nationalist, but he was a firm follower of the pseudo scientific theory of Eugenics which is considered to be the mother of modern day racism.

Aren't the majority of Jews white people?

Skin heads don't believe they are and apparently neither do you. Coincidence? I think not.

Also, no, you don't have to join a club to hate a particular group(black people).

-Black guy

Anonymous said...

"My spouse and I were sitting watching TV during the Christmas season and were amazed at how many blacks were in commercials. Blacks planning for retirement wearing pastel cardigans and playing golf, black actors portraying black "families" playing board games and Twister, blacks talking about investments, banking, taking hikes in the mountains, talking to the white postman about shipping rates, blacks with brand new cars wrapped in red bows in the driveway on Christmas morning."


Watching TV during the Christmas season is like watching TV during the super bowl. The overall number of commercials increase. That explains the jump in the number of black ACTORS.

Contrary to popular belief black Americans retire, play golf, have bank accounts, play board games,and have investments.

I have to admit commercials with black people hiking in the mountains are bullshit.

I don't believe anyone has spoken to a postman black or white about postal rates in real life. If I care about things like that I ship UPS or FedEx.

"You would think that blacks are 50% of the population. I think that blacks are as overrepresented in TV commercials as they are in government jobs. Black Guy, you are a victimologist through and through. Did you ever read the Shelby Steele book I recommended to you and Desiree? Here it is again:"


Shelby Steele is nothing more than a black Tim Wise. An establishment approved pseudo revolutionary. Who will whore his beliefs out for money. Just imagine how irrelevant those two would be if they switched races.

Here is the Shelby Steele from the early 20th century.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booker_T._Washington

Anyone who has to refer to themselves as a "black conservative" is a race hustler just like Jesse and Al.

Also if you need another example of phony black people hustling white folks just Google Larry Elder.

-Black guy

Anonymous said...

"Contrary to popular belief black Americans retire, play golf, have bank accounts, play board games,and have investments."

LOLOL That's kinda like saying "Contrary to popular belief, blacks get married before having children".
Disingenuous as hell, but not completely false.

Anonymous said...

-Black guy said at January 1, 2011 10:58 PM
"Mencken, I find it really interesting you didn't comment on my main point."

Really? Why did you find that interesting?

--Mencken--

Anonymous said...

"True Hitler was a Nationalist, but he was a firm follower of the pseudo scientific theory of Eugenics which is considered to be the mother of modern day racism."

DOH!! You didn't pay attention in Biology either, Mr. Black Guy. Eugenics is a deliberate cross-pollination of a favorable set of genes; and, yes, this process actually works with grain, corn, dogs and whole-grain corndogs. It is not, as you say, a 'pseudo scientific theory'. Eugenics is a legitimate contribution to humanity from a thoughtful, serene people. You're welcome. That Hitler also killed millions of people is an unfortunate historical association.

As far as I can tell, SBPDL is not a racist site. It is a blog that offers constructive criticism for a group of people incapable of governing themselves. Black people, Mr. Black Guy, are incapable of governing themselves. If this were not the case, then why are a majority of prison inmates black???

The Engineer

White Guy said...

Black Guy,

Caucasians and Jews are genetically disparate, originating from separate genotypes.

Even the Jews say so:

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/landmark-study-proves-90-of-jews-are-genetically-linked-to-the-levant-1.295231

White Guy said...

"Black people, Mr. Black Guy, are incapable of governing themselves. If this were not the case, then why are a majority of prison inmates black????"

I would add the question: And why is every black nation, from Haiti to Africa herself, in a total state of decay?

The abject financial, criminal and moral poverty of black countries is undeniable.

Anonymous said...

Engineer:

You make me ashamed to be a engineer myself. You don't have the academic background to competently discuss subjects like eugenics and race. Educate yourself if you aspire to comment on these topics.

Black Guy, as a white engineer myself, I feel I must apologize to you on behalf of this dumbass. His combination of ignorance and arrogance about subjects like race and history is pretty common among engineers. Forgive him, he knows not what he's talking about.

Anonymous said...

"Contrary to popular belief black Americans retire, play golf, have bank accounts, play board games,and have investments."

WTF? Only the smarter magical negroes who have already assimilated into our western culture and blend in. That is what Shelby Steele talks about, the black "bargainers", opposite of the "challengers". The bargainers are the minority of blacks, the talented tenth (or less).

On this site we talk about the other 90% of negroes who have distain for our culture, hatred for whites, and who commit the majority of crimes, live in filthy poverty, reproduce out of check, do not contribute to society and are a burden to the taxpayer, and are never going to be able to improve their lot.

To see the 10% glorified in media commercials is disingenuous and not realistic in any way. Why can't you get this??

Anonymous said...

"You make me ashamed to be a engineer myself. You don't have the academic background to competently discuss subjects like eugenics and race. Educate yourself if you aspire to comment on these topics."

OK, so now the black woman is posing as a white engineer??? Lol.