Manhattan Contrarian asks, Do Black Lives Really Matter? Latest New York City Crime Statistics
Are we surprised by the fact that most victims of shootings are black or Hispanic?
Chapman checks in with the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice to see how many of the victims were black or Hispanic. The answer is, almost all of them:
An analysis of NYPD data by that office [Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice] showed that 1,440 of 1,495 shooting victims between Jan. 1 to Oct. 1, or 96%, were either Black or Hispanic. During that period, 29 shooting victims were white.
And the shootings are concentrated in a small area of the city.
Murders are up 39.2% over last year, and up more than 50% since 2017.
So how has the media handled this news? Well the Wall Street Journal doesn't think it is interesting.
Chapman’s piece is securely buried on page A10A of today’s print edition, and in a “Greater New York” section that is only distributed regionally. Hey, the news of nearly 2000 black and Hispanic shooting victims, and about 400 black and Hispanic murder victims, all killed in our local area this year, is not nearly so important as the death of one black man in Minneapolis. That one death occupied the front pages for weeks on end.
Nothing to see here. Move along. The WSJ article is at this link, but it is behind a paywall.
This is nothing new, it has been the same fro decades. At one point they actually looked at the data and tried concentrating all the resources on that small area flooding it with cops and making all sorts of quality of life arrests. The residents loved it but the race hustlers went to court and that ended as discrimination.
ReplyDeleteThe residents want the police the hustlers(politicians) don't, simple as that