Wishful_Thinking wrote:

If blacks are arrested disproportionately compared to whites on suspicion of certain crimes, that's one - solve-able - problem.

If blacks are arrested disproportionately because they fit the description of the subject, that's an entirely different problem, needing a different solution.

Old-Skool-JC wrote:
Thanks for the link, this in depth article from the NY Daily News sports section really illuminated the original article and put it in perspective me.
Your powerful rhetoric has convinced me, i am now a full blon racist.
Sieg heil.

devilsadvocate wrote:
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Monroe wrote:
Since the war on poverty began in 1965 USA taxpayers have sent over 18 trillion dollars to fight the problem. For those who point to the actions in Iraq and Afghanistan, this sum is more than twice the amount the USA has spent on all wars from the Revolutionary War until the present.

Money surely isn't the problem. The breakdown in the family unit is much more damaging. When over 70% of black kids are born into single parent families the problems are manifest. And the government can't do anything about that.

There's also a HUGE cultural issue that everyone absolutely refuses to address. One of the aspects of that is exactly what we see in the original article: that crime isn't the fault of the criminal but of the "society" that didn't provide enough so that the criminal decided to do other things instead. Of course, the single parent households (as you correctly note above), acceptability of having children when you can't adequately provide for them, focus on identity politics as the most important issue rather than on important things that actually might be productive, are all noteworthy.

Wishful_Thinking wrote:
I can't help but think about the late Ben Bradlee, and the acclaim he got not only for the Watergate reportage, but his leadership in resolve the scandal over the false report on a young heroin addict.

Where is the newsman/woman who can take on difficult issues today?

Old-Skool-JC wrote:
Thanks for the link, this in depth article from the NY Daily News sports section really illuminated the original article and put it in perspective me.
Your powerful rhetoric has convinced me, i am now a full blon racist.
Sieg heil.

Monroe wrote:
Child abuser, NFL suspended star Adrian Peterson, today stated he no longer will beat any of his six children by six different mothers with a tree switch. Progress?

JCMan8 wrote:
The Milwaukee Police Chief has something to say about the imbeciles who protest the "racial disparity" referenced in the original post.

"If some of the people gave a good goddamn about the victimization of people in this community by crime, I'd take some of their invective more seriously."

Flynn noted that each year in Milwaukee, 80 percent of homicide victims, 85 percent of aggravated assault victims and 80 percent of shooting victims who survive shootings are African-American.

Good on him for speaking the truth.

http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2014/11/post_538.html

Monroe wrote:
Since the war on poverty began in 1965 USA taxpayers have sent over 18 trillion dollars to fight the problem. For those who point to the actions in Iraq and Afghanistan, this sum is more than twice the amount the USA has spent on all wars from the Revolutionary War until the present.

Money surely isn't the problem. The breakdown in the family unit is much more damaging. When over 70% of black kids are born into single parent families the problems are manifest. And the government can't do anything about that.

devilsadvocate wrote:
Gee, what could be the cause? It MUST be because white people are racist and/or have failed black people. Has to be. If you suggest anything else you are a sheet wearing racist.