Getting Up to Date on the US/UK Crime Epidemics By Chris Knight (Florida)
For the sake of balance, for Australian readers, most of you, who may not be getting much realistic information about what is going on with the race crime war in the US, which the MSM seems to be portraying as just White supremacists shooting up the place, I will be bringing updates from sites with an alternative perspective.
“I recently wrote about the mysterious killings of endangered white rhinos in South Africa’s Pilanesberg Park years ago. The killers turned out to be gangs of aggressive teen elephants who, raised without fathers or role models to “curb their youthful exuberance,” grew up to be troublemakers. The delinquents fell in line after park staff relocated adult male elephants to the park who “kicked butt” with the compassion of a father and established a new hierarchy.
The violence and killings of white rhinos stopped.
I compared the young elephants to young blacks in urban cities who were raised without fathers or healthy role models and have grown up extremely violent and extremely dysfunctional. That dysfunction is passed down to succeeding generations because rather than making the hard decisions to accurately define and solve the problem, leaders and activists excuse the bad behavior by blaming all the mayhem on slavery and Jim Crow. The message? “It’s not your fault.”
How’s that working?
Blacks are a third of the population in Chicago but commit 80 percent of all shootings, author Heather Mac Donald told Tucker Carlson on a recent show. In Los Angeles, blacks commit 44 percent of all violent crime but make up 9 percent of the population. In St. Louis, blacks are less than a third of the population but commit 90 percent of all homicides. In New York City, blacks commit about three quarters of all shootings although they’re 23 percent of the population.
On Monday alone, 16 people were shot and two killed in Chicago, a city led by blacks. Two teenage black girls killed an Uber Eats driver in D.C. during a foiled carjacking. A knife-wielding black man, 25, was shot dead after he rammed his car into a barricade at the Capitol, killing one policeman. A deranged black man who had been released from prison after killing his mother was caught on camera kicking, stomping, and beating a random 65-year-old Asian woman, while others, including a security guard, watched.
With all the talk of structural racism, equity, and white supremacy, violence has not only gotten more brash, but it’s becoming institutionalized. Yet, if the woke crowd were successful in transforming the country into an “anti-racist” paradise, we would still be light years away from fixing the dysfunction and disparities in urban cities.
Blaming black crime on slavery and Jim Crow completely ignores the elephant in the room.
“We need to be courageous and come up with alternative explanations that are difficult to articulate but they must be said,” McDonald told Tucker.
Corey Brooks, pastor of New Beginnings Church of Chicago, has spent the past few years getting his hands dirty with an “alternative explanation” that is slowly transforming one of the most violent neighborhoods in Chicago. Rather than blaming cops, he’s laser-focused on tackling urban crime at its root: broken families.
In the new documentary “What Killed Michael Brown?” Shelby Steele and his son, Eli, spoke with Pastor Brooks, who set up his church in 2000 in the heart of Woodlawn, Illinois. It’s now a congregation of 2,500.
“I believe the church is the hope of the world,” said Brooks. “What greater place that needs that hope than a place that’s experiencing high levels of crime [and] broken families? We’ve seen a lot of young guys in the neighborhood who don’t value their lives. A lot of it is a result of not having someone to encourage them that ‘You can do better,’ … But if you don’t have those messages going forward, it’s hard for you to value life when everybody is shooting and killing.”
That was true for ex-Black Disciples gang leader Varney Voker who, as a child, watched his mother smoke weed and deal drugs. He wanted to be like her. But he did better. Voker grew up to build a crack-heroin business that brought in $60,000 a day.
Legendary in Chicago as one of “The Bentley Twins” (he and his twin brother drove Bentleys), Voker told Steele about how he returned from an 11-year prison sentence to find his old neighborhood under new leadership. While looking for old connections to rebuild his empire, Voker’s friend told him he had to go to the church.
“I’m like, who am I meeting?” he said, recounting the story. “Guy (said), ‘You meeting the pastor.’ I said, ‘I don’t want to talk to no pastor, bro, I just came home. He goes, ‘No, you have to talk to him because he runs the neighborhood now.’”
When they finally met, the pastor said to the ex-gang leader: “OK, um, I know who you are; I heard a lot about you – glad to see you home, but I’m the new sheriff in town.”
By making himself the “biggest elephant in the room,” Brooks established a new hierarchy in Woodlawn where young blacks saw him as a father figure. Over the years, Brooks has created an environment where young people can learn a trade, become self-sufficient, and be role models for others. It is this painstaking cycle of creating and reproducing role models that Brooks believes will transform the neighborhood. In fact, he wants Woodlawn to be the petri dish that will offer proof that urban areas nationwide can grow themselves out of dysfunction and close crippling disparities.
“It’s easy to say, ‘the white man, the white man’ when in reality we need to take a closer look at ourselves,” he told Steele. “We’re telling them educationally – you’ve got to get it together. Economically, you’ve got to get it together. Family and spiritually, you have to get it together. And you have to take responsibility.”
It is the Corey Brooks of the world – not the Cory Bookers – who will do for troubled urban cities what trillions of government dollars, angry protesters, and pampered TV pundits have failed to do. They ignore the elephant in the room, then make books and monuments to themselves about the problems they created and pretended to solve.
But men like Pastor Brooks stare the elephant in the eye, hammer stakes in the ground, and commit to the dirty, back-breaking labor of changing the destiny of generations of broken human beings.
If America is lucky, Brooks and people like him, just may be replicating an army of men and women in their own images.”
More race realism about crime from the UK, this time from the MSM.
“Black people are three times more likely to be killed on the streets of London than other ethnic groups, new figures show.
Almost half of all murder victims in the capital in 2019 were Black despite them making up only 13 per cent of the city’s population, according to analysis conducted by the charity Action on Armed Violence (AOAV) and shared with The Independent.
The organisation used media reports and open-source data to establish the ethnicity of 135 of the 147 people who were violently killed in London that year. It found 62 (46.7 per cent) of that number were Black compared to 48 (35.6 per cent) White, 21 (15.6 per cent) Asian and four (3 per cent) Latin American or mixed heritage.
More of London’s murder victims were Black than any other ethnic group despite 59.8 per cent of the city’s wider population being white.
Of these victims, 57 (92 per cent) were male, and five (8 per cent) were female.
Black people were also four times more likely to be convicted of murder and were on average three years younger than the mean age of 23 at the time, while white killers were 10 years older.
Iain Overton, founder of AOAV, said: “All too often, news stories of killings in London fixate on individual tragedies. This research seeks to identify wider trends and patterns in both those killed and those who have perpetrated killings.
“Whilst our data often points to and reinforces widely held truths - such as men being far more likely to be killers than women - our findings point towards the need for more research, not least in areas such as why so many Black men are caught up in violence at a young age.
“Analysis into social deprivation, education, employment prospects and other factors that play a part in the fabric of violence need to be more widely examined, and government funding should be found to this end.”
Campaigners expressed alarm at the research, and called on the government to “accept responsibility” for systemic racism.
It comes after a government-commissioned race report published earlier this month concluded structural racism did not exist in the UK.
Lee Jasper, one of Britain’s most prominent race equality activists, toldThe Independent: “Research tells us that poverty is the mother of crime and violence. One of the dire consequences of high rates of poverty is wide spread family dysfunction - this the primary effect of unaddressed generational levels of systemic racism.
“We are disproportionately poor and that drives family breakdown, and as a result we are over represented in violence and homicide figures. For Black people, racism and poverty are the greatest forms of violence; institutional racism represents an existential threat and a public health crisis.”
Sheldon Thomas, founder of Gangsline Foundation Trust, a non-profit organisation established in 2007 to provide assistance to young people involved in gang culture, said the reasons for the disparity between ethnic groups was varied.
“Fifty per cent of the blame lies with us as parents and fifty per cent is the government - both are in denial,” Mr Thomas, who is a former gang member himself, told The Independent.
He added: “The government doesn’t want to accept responsibility of bad schools and houses, reinforcing class issues around white kids, systemic racism. Meanwhile, some parts of our Black communities don’t want to take responsibility for absent fathers and dysfunctional families.”
Mr Thomas also pointed to issues around family structure which were not exclusive to Black communities and also affected working class white people.
“While we acknowledge that certain areas have a high percentage of Black gang members, we also got to acknowledge that most of the country have white gangs and those gangs are coming from the same kinds of backgrounds as many of those Black kids - lower socioeconomic backgrounds, deprived neighbourhoods, absent fathers,” he said.
"London had the highest proportion of lone parent families in the UK in 2019, according to the Office for National Statistics. Poverty rates amongst most household types in London are higher than in the rest of England.
Single parents with children are more likely to be in poverty than any other type of household.
Over half of single parents in London (53 per cent) were in poverty, more than four times the proportion of couples without children, Trust for London research shows."
Commander Dave McLaren, homocide lead at the Metropolitan Police, said: “Any life lost through violence in London is a tragedy and simply one too many.
“Sadly, different crimes tend to affect different groups more than others and it remains a tragic truth that knife crime and street violence in London, disproportionately affects boys and young men, particularly of African-Caribbean heritage, both in terms of being victims and perpetrators. Equally, areas of London with higher crime levels, particularly violent crime, often tend to be home to more diverse communities.
“There are many complex, societal reasons and factors at play here and which go beyond the scope of policing, but we remain determined to do all we can to protect the people who live and work in these areas as well as those who are visiting or passing through.”
The Met had recorded some 149 homicides up to 30 December 2019, while in five years the homicide rate in London had increased by more than 50 per cent from 94 cases in 2014.
This prompted AOAV to undertake deeper analysis of the violent deaths recorded during this period.
Safeguarding minister Victoria Atkins suggested county lines operations was a driving factor behind the “sad reality” of racial disproportionality in violence.
She added: “The government is determined to end the scourge of county lines, and we are investing £65m to tackle them.
“Our programme of investment, launched in November 2019, has already seen more than 3,400 people arrested, more than 550 lines closed, drugs with a street value of £9 million and £1.5 million cash seized, and more than 770 vulnerable people at risk of exploitation safeguarded.”
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