Sunday, July 26, 2009
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Heather Mac Donald: Promoting Racial Paranoia, In his comments Wednesday, Obama recycled long-discredited anti-cop fictions. - '...National crime patterns are the same. Black males between the ages of 18 and 24 commit homicide at ten times the rate of whites and Hispanics combined. Such vastly disproportionate crime rates must lead, if the police are going after crime in a color-blind fashion, to disproportionate stop and arrest rates. To criticize the police for crime-determined enforcement activity is to blame the messenger...Obama's prime-time recycling of advocate-generated myths about policing will only make inner-city neighborhoods more dangerous for their many law-abiding residents. No one benefits more from proactive policing than the poor...' [Moving racial reconciliation backward, not forward.]
