THE DOCTRINE OF THE N.A.F.T.A. GLOBALIST DEMOCRATS IS TO SERVE THE BILLIONAIRE CLASS WITH ENDLESS WAVES OF INVADING 'CHEAP' LABOR SUBSIDIZED WITH WELFARE FUNDED BY TAXES ON MIDDLE AMERICA.
In many speeches, Mayorkas says he is building a mass migration system to deliver workers to wealthy employers and investors and “equity” to poor foreigners. The nation’s border laws are subordinate to elites’ opinion about “the values of our country,” Mayorkas claims.
A Florida convicted pedophile has been arrested again less than two months after his release from prison, for allegedly raping a random woman.
Kendrick Marclain, 31, registered as a sex offender with the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office on January 8 after getting out of prison on December 31, Fox News reported. Then, a woman accused the Panoma Park man of attacking her on February 3.
The woman told police that she had gotten into an argument with a family member while intoxicated that night and decided to leave the residence and go for a walk by herself. She reported noticing a strange man following her, and called her mother around 10:12 p.m. but lost connection.
“The victim said the man continued to follow her and made contact with her near Dollar General asking for a cigarette,” the sheriff’s office said. “The victim gave the man a cigarette, which they shared.”
Before she could leave, the woman said the man grabbed her by the neck, hit her head on a wall, and raped her.
The victim said the man then attempted to take her to his residence, but it was at this time that her father came looking for her and she was able to escape to his vehicle.
Investigators were able to match surveillance footage and forensic evidence to Marclain on Monday, officials said.
He was arrested, charged with sexual assault on a person over the age of 18, and is being held in the Putnam County Jail without bond.
Marclain had recently been released from prison for sexually assaulting a child under the age of 12, Fox News reported.
“This is a person who was given multiple opportunities to rehabilitate, and he chooses not to,” Sheriff H.D. DeLoach said. “He fails to comply with his sexual predator designation and has returned to prison several times.”
“Clearly, this is someone who cannot function in society and now a member of our community has suffered an inexcusable, horrific trauma at his hands. There is no reason this person should ever be set free again to prey on others.”
Video shows U.S. Marshals arrest 3rdsuspect in mass shooting at Septa stop that injured 8 students
The argument that elected Black leaders know how to boost Black educational attainment or reduce Black-on-Black crime is just not credible.
CAN YOU NAME A BLACK POL WHO DOES NOT HUCKSTER HIS/HER WAY TO JAIL?
Blacks have been winning elections in Selma over a half century, but the city’s economic travails have grown worse, and there is little prospect of a breakthrough. This is a harsh, undeniable truth, so perhaps it is time to examine this awkward failure. There are better options.
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American ethnic groups have relied on various paths to move up the economic ladder, but among African Americans the foremost pathway has been elections. This effort has produced notable successes. Voting rates are now roughly equal and Blacks have been elected to the highest positions, including President of the United States. Few can deny that the “Black vote” plays a major role in American politics.
Nevertheless, one can ask if this electoral process improves the life of the average African American. Does replacing White rule with a Black mayor and a majority Black city council translate into tangible benefits? After all, political power is a means to an end, not the final goal.
One answer to this quandary can be found in the history of Selma, Alabama whose civil-rights battles have come to symbolize the African American quest for political equality. Selma recently received national attention when Vice-President Kamala Harris along with eleven members of Congress and the U.S. Attorney General, participated in the celebration of the 59th “Bloody Sunday” march. In fact, the 1965 march has become so iconic that President Biden mentioned it in his recent State of the Union address: “A transformational moment in our history happened 59 years ago today in Selma, Alabama: Hundreds of foot soldiers for justice marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, named after a Grand Dragon of the KKK, to claim their fundamental right to vote. They were beaten bloodied and left for dead.” This watershed moment facilitated in passing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, an Act that greatly expanded Black voting.
Black voting in Selma sharply expanded, and as most of the White population departed, Blacks eventually dominated the city’s politics. Today, Selma’s population is about 80% African American and a Black political stronghold.
But, has this newfound political power in Selma brought improved conditions for Blacks? The answer, unambiguously, is “no.” Most notably, the mass exodus of Whites was accompanied by a sharp decline in the local economy and Selma today ranks among Alabama’s poorest cities with almost twice the poverty rate of the rest of the state,. Efforts to attract tourists with murals and a museum recounting the voting rights struggle have become the primary source of income but have failed to revitalize the decrepit downtown of shuttered stores, boarded-up buildings and abandoned residences. The average income of $35,000 per year is a third lower than the state’s average. Nearly a third of Black Selma residents live below the poverty line versus 11% of Whites.
Crime is a serious problem with the odds of being victimized by violent crime in Selma about twice the national average, even higher than all of Alabama (whose crime rate exceeds the national average). The level of crime per square mile was nearly three times the average for the entire state. According to one survey of city residents, 87% expressed concerns about personal safety and feeling uncomfortable walking alone at night.
Selma’s educational statistics reveal a similar troubling picture. Despite a 92% high school graduation rate, Selma Hight School, one of two such schools in the city, had a reading proficiency score of 12% and 5% in math (no data are available from the other school), Selma HS is also highly segregated with 98.6% of the students being classified as “Black and 85% “economically disadvantaged.” One half of one percent were White.
While this picture is only a snapshot, it would be hard to argue that Black political power has uplifted the lives of Selma’s Black residents. Nor is the Selma story of towns going from White to Black rule unique. Comparable depressing tales can be told about Gary, Ind., Jackson, Miss., Camdem, N.J., East St. Louis, Ill., among others, where the promised reward of Black political control was disappointing. A comparable failure holds for many larger, Black politically-dominated cities, notably Detroit, Baltimore, Newark, N.J., Atlantic City, N.J., St. Louis, Mo, and Trenton, N.J., among others. Yes, newly achieved Black political control may have brought well-paying government jobs for at least some Blacks, plus government contracts for minority businesses, but for ordinary Blacks, the tangible payoff has been meager.
The argument that elected Black leaders know how to boost Black educational attainment or reduce Black-on-Black crime is just not credible. In many, if not most, instances, the rise of Black political control triggers an exodus of Whites that lowers the quality of life for many Blacks -- closed stores, less tax revenue for social services, worse educational outcomes, and many other benefits that no longer exist compared to when Whites governed.
What lessons can be learned from this disjunction between relying on the vote to move up the economic ladder and the paltry results of this triumph? A disinterested observer might suggest that Blacks should abandon obsessing over electoral politics and embrace alternatives favored by other groups with the same aim, for example, Jews starting small businesses or the Irish working for large bureaucratic organizations like the police department and slowly advancing up the ranks. All have proven records of success that far exceed the emphasis on politics.
Alas, shifting strategies will not be easy. Many Blacks -- 40% according to one recent poll -- believe that the ballot box still remains the pathway to racial progress and this article of faith and will not be reversed by statistical data (only about a quarter of Whites saw politics this way). Nor can we expect Democratic Party functionaries to tell their most loyal supporters to deemphasize the vote. There is also enormous pride in seeing fellow Blacks achieve high political office, including mayors of major cities such as Chicago, New York, and Washington D.C. Such pride may well transcend clear-eyed cost/benefit analysis. Politics is often about emotion, not statistical data.
But perhaps most important is the dramatic rise of elected Black officeholders.These positions bestow power, prestige and, often, wealth to incumbents, and these officeholders are not about to minimize the value of electoral politics. And while a long tradition exists among Blacks of self-help organization and leaders who encouraged self-reliance, notably Booker T. Washington and Marcus Garvey, self-reliance is easily pushed aside by promising instant payoff if only fellow Blacks vote for them.
For those who might raise doubt about the efficacy of electoral politics, the all-too-typical rejoinder is to double down and insist that progress will come only if yet more Blacks vote. When the promised paradise fails to materialize, the easy excuse is “voter suppression.”
Blacks have been winning elections in Selma over a half century, but the city’s economic travails have grown worse, and there is little prospect of a breakthrough. This is a harsh, undeniable truth, so perhaps it is time to examine this awkward failure. There are better options.
Doesn't everyone have a friend or two who keeps a severed head in his freezer?
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg does, this one an ex-con who got let out of prison after serving only half of his 50-year term last year, and within that year, or possibly earlier, reportedly made friends with Bragg.
Here's the pair in a shareable picture that reportedly ran on Instagram (I don't see it now) and which is still being shared on Twitter:
Which is pretty damning for Bragg's choice of associates. The guy was out of the can for only a year when someone got him an undoubtedly well-paid job at a legal firm called Queens Defenders, whose nstagram tagline reads: "Limiting the impact of a criminal record on employment, housing, education, & public benefits." Fox News reports that they were among a group of legal defenders seeking a hundreds million dollars from the city for their "services."
The suspected killer has been busy since getting out of prison last year, working as an advocate with the Queens Defenders, one of several public defenders groups that begged for hundreds of millions of dollars in increased funding last year, according to the Daily News.
In other words, this was a criminal justice "reform" organization in the Soros mode whose name of the game was to ensure no consequences for criminal behavior.
Its Instagram is loaded with "know your rights" and other mechanisms for miscreants to employ to escape justice. Its NGO-like logo is a stylized mailed fist. I don't see anything on their site about reforming character.
So it should surprise no one that Johnson doesn't seem to have changed any, despite talking a good public relations line about reforming himself in prison to podcaster Joe Rogan ... and a month later reportedly chopping a guy up in his apartment as neighbors said he pleaded for mercy, stuffing the man's head and legs in his freezer, and quite possibly doing some kind of cement shoes thing with his other body parts, according to police evidence found in reports. He's quite a guy. It's hard to think that people didn't know he hadn't changed any.
But there Alvin Bragg is, posing with him with such joy in his eyes as one of his best friends forever in the picture, making one wonder how many other savages committing barbaric acts are also in his personal circle.
It matters because Bragg spends all his time ignoring real crime in New York while palling around with these savages, and focusing his prosecutorial fire on President Trump, in some of the most questionable of all the Trump trials -- the Stormy Daniels case, and the E. Jean Carroll case. Trump is being prosecuted by a guy whose associates have been caught with body parts in their freezer? This sounds like the reign of savages.
That must have made Johnson happy. It shouldn't surprise anyone then that Bragg was someone Johnson counted a friend. It would be interesting to see whether Bragg or his office prosecutes this murder at all, or somehow makes "mistakes" that redound in Johnson's favor. It would be even more interesting to see if Johnson's employer gets their hundreds of millions from the city.
Bragg, recall, is the guy who touts his own "courage" on his official website and pontificates about having the "highest standards"?
Alvin also believes that police and prosecutors must be held to the highest standards in order to strengthen community trust in our justice system.
So hanging out with people like these are "the highest standards," Alvin?
While prosecuting the former president of the United States as the "real" criminal?
This is the sort of garbage one sees in places like Venezuela, where only the dissidents get hit by the long arm of the law, and criminals are allowed to roam free to ensure few public gatherings and protests.
Maybe Bragg should start answering questions about his "highest standards" friend of his in the picture, maybe through congressional hearings. Bragg sounds like he has potential conflicts of interest here -- and if so, that suggests that actual criminals may be among the people going after Trump. Let's hear Bragg explain this association.
Dr. Williams comments on another reality: that the rate of black homicide and armed robbery as well as other violent crimes are as is as much as 15–30 times more than whites
So, we have local black gang associates posting terror threats on social media -- threats of murder, by burning, directed at the women and children family members of white police employees -- immediately before the murder, by burning, of the white teenage daughter of a local police department employee. Plus, the killing took place only minutes after the victim was seen on video at the same location as the husband or boyfriend of the person who posted the threats, as he was filling a handheld can with gasoline.
As for interracial violence generally, blacks disproportionately commit it. Between 2012 and 2015, there were 631,830 violent interracial victimizations, excluding homicide, between blacks
and whites, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Blacks, who make up 13 percent of the U.S. population, committed 85.5 percent of those victimizations, or 540,360 felonious assaults on
whites, while whites, 61 percent of the population, committed 14.4 percent, or 91,470 felonious assaults on blacks. Regarding threats to blacks from the police, a police officer is 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police officer.
Anti-cop activist Shaun King says that his involvement in the campaign around the Jazmine Barnes murder was not driven by reports that a white man had killed the seven-year-old girl, who was gunned down in Houston on December 30. According to Barnes’s mother and 15-year-old sister, the white driver of a pickup truck had pulled up next to the family’s car before opening fire. The accusation set off a frenzy of hate-crime allegations and blanket coverage by the New York Times. King offered a $100,000 reward to anyone who located the suspect.
As it turned out, Jazmine Barnes was killed by two black men, who opened fire on her mother’s car because they thought that they were targeting enemies of their gang. King passed along a tip about the real killers to the Houston police, and now says that he merely “internalized the pain of the family and tried to search as if it were my own child who was killed.” Race, in other words, had nothing to do with his activism.
It’s worth remembering, though, the many other black children who have been victims of drive-by shootings without leading King to launch a national crusade.
A sampling: in March 2015, a six-year-old boy was killed in a drive-by shooting on West Florissant Avenue in St. Louis, as Black Lives Matter protesters were converging on the Ferguson, Missouri, Police Department to demand the resignation of the entire department. In August 2015, a nine-year-old girl was killed by a bullet from a drive-by shooting in Ferguson while doing her homework in her bedroom, blocks from the Black Lives Matter rioting thoroughfare. Five children were shot in Cleveland over the 2015 Fourth of July weekend. A seven-year-old boy was killed in Chicago that same weekend by a bullet intended for his father. In Cincinnati, in July 2015, a four-year-old girl was shot in the head and a six-year-old girl was left paralyzed and partially blind from two separate drive-by shootings. In Cleveland, three children five and younger were killed in September 2015, leading the black police chief to break down in tears and ask why the community only protests shootings of blacks when the perpetrator is a cop. In November 2015, a nine-year-old in Chicago was lured into an alley and killed by his father’s gang enemies; the father refused to cooperate with the police. All told, ten children under the age of ten were killed in Baltimore in 2015; twelve victims were between the age of ten and seventeen.
In 2016, a three-year-old girl in Baltimore was partially paralyzed by a drive-by shooting. In Chicago in 2016, two dozen children under the age of 12 were shot in drive-bys, including a three-year-old boy mowed down on Father’s Day 2016 who is now paralyzed for life and a ten-year-old boy shot in August; his pancreas, intestines, kidney, and spleen were torn apart. A Jacksonville 22-month-old was shot to death by a passing car last June. In September, three men killed three-year-old Azalya Anderson in a drive-by in Sacramento, and a week before Christmas in Bridgeport, a 12-year-old boy was shot and killed on his way home from the candy store in a drive-by shooting.
Why did King let these shootings of black children go by without responding as he did to Jazmine Barnes’s murder? Could it be because the perpetrators were black? You could end all white shootings of black children tomorrow and it would have zero effect on the death rate of black children by homicide, because such white-on-black shootings are extremely rare. Moral abominations, like the 2015 Charleston church massacre by white supremacist Dylann Roof, are aberrations that belong to the outermost lunatic fringe of American society. The country’s revulsion at the Charleston carnage was immediate and universal, resulting in a movement to banish the Confederate flag, embraced by Roof as a white supremacist symbol, from official sites.
If Shaun King and other Black Lives Matter activists really want to save black children from the trauma of urban violence, they should put their efforts into rebuilding inner-city culture—above all, by revalorizing a married father as the best gift a mother can give her child. Fantasies about white violence against “black bodies” are a distraction from what is actually happening on American streets.
Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and the author of The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe and The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture.
Walter Williams tackles the elephant in the room on crime
Dr. Williams is a well known conservative economist and longtime John Olin Chair faculty at George Mason University in eastern Virginia, author of 12 books and syndicated columnist. In the past, he has been substitute host on the Rush Limbaugh radio program. He is almost like family to me, and I have benefited from his essays and books over the years. This past week, I saw and read his essay on disparities in crime rates among races that was picked up by Military in its October 2019 issue. What got Dr. Williams going was the article by Matthew DeLisi of Iowa State U and John Paul Wright of the U of Cincinnati titled "What Criminologists Don't Say and Why."
Dr. Williams confirms that the writers are right about the liberal tilt of criminologists — "If criminologists have the guts to even talk about a race-crime connection, it's behind closed doors and in guarded language. Any discussion about race and crime ... can mean the end of one's professional career."
Dr. Williams points out teen black-on-white predatory behavior — chronicled in detail by many, particularly Colin Flaherty, whose investigative reports appear frequently (more than 100) at American Thinker — cannot be reported, mentioned, or considered by the media, politicians, criminologists, commentators, politicians, even law enforcement people without risking being called racist, the easy epithet used to enforce a ban on talking about the realities of racial disparities in crime and the increasingly violent nature of black violence against whites — the knockout game, polar bear hunting, flash mob violence against people and property.
Referencing the Wright and DeLisi report, Dr. Williams comments on another reality: that the rate of black homicide and armed robbery as well as other violent crimes are as is as much as 15–30 times more than whites, for example, and he points out the silliness of criminologists' claims that mass incarceration rather than criminality has decimated the black community. He favorably quotes Wright and DeLisi when they say, "What they [criminals] did, in reality was to prey on their neighbors."
Dr. Williams returns to a theme he has explored many times before in this essay and commentary when he points out that the black family of the past was two parents and stable, even back to days of slavery, and that the black community was moral and law-abiding. "The strong character of black people is responsible for the great progress made from emancipation to today. ... [T]oday's conduct among black youth wouldn't have been tolerated yesteryear."
My regret is there aren't enough Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell types to engage the nutty attitudes of liberal chatterbox experts.
John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D. is an emergency physician, sheriff's medical officer and inactive attorney, policy and science adviser to the American Council on Science and Health of NYC and the Heartland Institute of Chicago.
The FBI released its official crime tally for 2016 today, and the data flies in the face of the rhetoric that professional athletes rehearsed in revived Black Lives Matter protests over the weekend. Nearly 900 additional blacks were killed in 2016 compared with 2015, bringing the black homicide-victim total to 7,881. Those 7,881 “black bodies,” in the parlance of Ta-Nehisi Coates, are 1,305 more than the number of white victims (which in this case includes most Hispanics) for the same period, though blacks are only 13 percent of the nation’s population. The increase in black homicide deaths last year comes on top of a previous 900-victim increase between 2014 and 2015.
Who is killing these black victims? Not whites, and not the police, but other blacks. In 2016, the police fatally shot 233 blacks, the vast majority armed and dangerous, according to the Washington Post. The Post categorized only 16 black male victims of police shootings as “unarmed.” That classification masks assaults against officers and violent resistance to arrest. Contrary to the Black Lives Matter narrative, the police have much more to fear from black males than black males have to fear from the police. In 2015, a police officer was 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male was to be killed by a police officer. Black males have made up 42 percent of all cop-killers over the last decade, though they are only 6 percent of the population. That 18.5 ratio undoubtedly worsened in 2016, in light of the 53 percent increase in gun murders of officers—committed vastly and disproportionately by black males. Among all homicide suspects whose race was known, white killers of blacks numbered only 243.
Violent crime has now risen by a significant amount for two consecutive years. The total number of violent crimes rose 4.1 percent in 2016, and estimated homicides rose 8.6 percent. In 2015, violent crime rose by nearly 4 percent and estimated homicides by nearly 11 percent. The last time violence rose two years in a row was 2005–06. The reason for the current increase is what I have called the Ferguson Effect. Cops are backing off of proactive policing in high-crime minority neighborhoods, and criminals are becoming emboldened. Having been told incessantly by politicians, the media, and Black Lives Matter activists that they are bigoted for getting out of their cars and questioning someone loitering on a known drug corner at 2 AM, many officers are instead just driving by. Such stops are discretionary; cops don’t have to make them. And when political elites demonize the police for just such proactive policing, we shouldn’t be surprised when cops get the message and do less of it. Seventy-two percent of the nation’s officers say that they and their colleagues are now less willing to stop and question suspicious persons, according to a Pew Research poll released in January 2016. The reason is the persistent anti-cop climate.
Four studies came out in 2016 alone rebutting the charge that police shootings are racially biased. If there is a bias in police shootings, it works in favor of blacks and against whites. That truth has not stopped the ongoing demonization of the police—including, now, by many of the country’s ignorant professional athletes. The toll will be felt, as always, in the inner city, by the thousands of law-abiding people there who desperately want more police protection.
Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal.
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Study: ‘Family Structure’ a Major Factor in Racial Disparities in School Conduct and Suspensions
A new study affirms what many public policy analysts say is intuitive — that unstable family structure, including chaotic households and single-parent homes, is a primary factor in racial disparities in school behavior and suspensions.
The study, conducted by senior fellows Nicholas Zill and W. Bradford Wilcox at the Institute for Family Studies, asserts education policymakers “must recognize that social and psychological problems in youth may manifest themselves at school but have their origins in family situations over which the school has little or no control.”
The authors find in their new analysis of the National Household Education Survey (NHES) that, in 2016, about 24 percent of black elementary and high school students had been suspended at least once, while eight percent of white students and only four percent of Asian students had the same experience.
The researchers note the NHES shows “black students are far more likely to be living apart from their married birth parents in the home (72%) compared to white students (37%) or Asian students (26%).”
“These family structure differences, then, are likely to play a role in inter- and intra-racial disparities in student conduct and discipline,” the authors state, and add:
Indeed, among black students who do live with both married birth parents, suspension rates are less than half as large as those for black students living in other family types: 12% versus 28%. The suspension rate for black students living in intact families, 12%, is also less than the suspension rate for white students from non-intact families, 13%.
The study also found that family structure even accounts for more of the racial disparities in school suspensions than socioeconomic factors.
When the researchers controlled for family structure, they discovered the racial disparities in school suspensions reduced by 55 percent. Controlling for socioeconomic status reduced the racial differences by only 38 percent.
“These results, then, suggest that family structure is a signal factor in accounting for real differences in school conduct and school suspensions,” the authors state. “This is especially noteworthy because discussions related to racial disparities in school discipline often overlook the role of family structure and highlight socioeconomic explanations.”
Zill and Wilcox assert that, while examples of racism exist, “there are legitimate reasons for believing that some of the racial differences in school suspensions and discipline are based upon real, not just perceived, differences in students’ behavior”:
We focus here on the possibility that some of these differences are related to family factors, including notable differences in family structure by race. Students who come from chaotic homes, single-parent families, or non-intact families are less likely to get the consistent attention, affection, and discipline they need to flourish and develop self-control. Their families typically have less money, which affects the quality of their neighborhoods and their neighborhood peers, which is also an important influence on school conduct. And they are also more likely to be exposed to conflict, stress, frequent moves, and neglect—all risk factors for delinquent and disruptive behavior. Indeed, our data indicate that rates of school contact for student misbehavior are nearly twice as high among students living with separated or divorced parents as among those living with stably married parents. And they are higher still among students who live apart from both biological parents, being cared for instead by grandparents or foster parents.
The researchers say that, in order to see a drop in school suspensions among black children and adolescents, black family life must be stabilized and reinforced:
Such efforts should include criminal justice reform, ending marriage penalties in means-tested policies, subsidizing the wages of low-income workers, and launching local and national campaigns directed by black religious, civic, and cultural leaders to strengthen marriage in the black community. Efforts like these are needed because, our research suggests, increasing the number of African American children who are raised by stably married parents would dramatically increase the odds that black girls and boys steer clear of the principal’s office—and increase the odds they flourish in school, avoid contact with the criminal justice system, and, later in life, excel in the labor force further down the road.
“[S]tronger black families would go a long way towards reducing racial disparities in school discipline,” Zill and Wilcox assert.
The study comes as Obama-era holdovers and other progressives continue the narrative that racial disparities in school suspensions and discipline are due to systemic factors such as institutional racism.
The Obama Departments of Education and Justice, under Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Attorney General Eric Holder, issued public school guidelines that claimed students of color are “disproportionately impacted” by suspensions and expulsions, a situation they said led to a “school-to-prison pipeline” that discriminates against minority and low-income students.
The policy, however, essentially blamed systemic racism for the fact that black and other minority students have been punished and suspended more than white and Asian students. Recommended remedies for the problem included eliminating suspensions for unacceptable behavior by minority students and urging, instead, their participation in “restorative talking circles” and “positive behavior interventions.”
In December 2018, the Trump administration revoked the Obama-era policy that urged public schools to employ these more lenient forms of discipline for students of color and of other minority groups.
The U.S. Departments of Education and Justice rescinded the Obama administration’s 2014 “Dear Colleague Letter” that a federal school safety commission said “may have paradoxically contributed to making schools less safe.”
The outcry from parents, teachers, some media outlets, and many education analysts and stakeholders has been piercing, with most pointing to the rise in “dangerousness” in public schools.
Nevertheless, in July, Democrat members of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission urged the White House and Congress to continue the Obama-era race-based discipline policy.
The commission’s report, titled “Beyond Suspensions: Examining School Discipline Policies and Connections to the School-to-Prison Pipeline for Students of Color with Disabilities,” stated, “[D]ata have consistently shown that the overrepresentation of students of color in school discipline rates is not due to higher rates of misbehavior by these students, but instead is driven by structural and systemic factors.”
The commission’s report was released as the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) issued its analysis indicating a rise in serious incidents of violence in the nation’s public schools:
Even a Democrat state lawmaker — New York State Sen. Leroy Comrie — and Teamsters President Gregory Floyd, who represents school safety officers — referred to the Obama-era policy as one that has led to “chaos” and a lack of “accountability” for dangerous behavior.
Two members of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission — Peter Kirsanow and Gail Heriot — dissented from the commission’s majority report.
Kirsanow wrote at National Review the report is “essentially a defense of the Obama Department of Education’s 2014 ‘Dear Colleague’ letter that used disparate-impact theory to interpret racial disparities in school discipline as evidence of racial discrimination.”
To progressives, “any racial disparity necessarily means invidious racial discrimination,” Kirsanow asserted, adding:
It’s undisputed that black students, as a group, are disciplined more than white students. For the commission majority, this is evidence of racially disparate treatment, as it’s an article of faith that discipline disparities aren’t due to disparities in behavior.
Kirsanow observed the commission’s report ignored key statistics in order to craft its narrative of racial discrimination against students of color.
He pointed to his colleague Heriot’s statement in which she said, “In the report, the Commission finds ‘Students of color as a whole, as well as by individual racial group, do not commit more disciplinable offenses than their white peers.’”
“That would be a good thing if it were true, but there is no evidence to support it and abundant evidence to the contrary,” she asserted, adding that what accounts for differing rates of misbehavior among students of color “likely” includes “differing rates of poverty, differing rates of fatherless households, differing parental education, differing achievement in school, and histories of policy failures and injustices.”
Kirsanow called for those truly concerned about improving education in the United States to “disregard” the report released by the majority of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission.
“Claiming that racism or dislike of children with disabilities accounts for disparate rates of discipline only stokes resentment and erodes personal responsibility,” he asserted. “The supposed cures of ‘restorative practices’ and ‘positive behavioral interventions and supports’ only make it more likely that children in minority neighborhoods who want to learn will be less able to do so, and that teachers and children will be at the mercy of school bullies.”
Police officers in Chicago believed they had interrupted a man sexually assaulting a woman on Monday, when the suspect made a chilling claim.
The incident happened when officers were called to the scene of a sexual assault in progress on South Chappel just before 9:00 p.m., CWB Chicago reported Friday.
Authorities reportedly found a woman, age 24, who was being attacked and who had also been sexually assaulted. Responding officers quickly detained the suspect, identified as 19-year-old Keenan Jackson.
The suspect reportedly told law enforcement officials, “I wasn’t trying to rape her, I was trying to kill her,” adding, “I will get out of jail and find that b**ch and kill her.”
The CWB Chicago report said when Jackson was found, allegedly on top of the victim, officials noticed his pants had been pulled down and the woman’s lower clothing had been shredded.
The suspect is accused of hitting her over and over in the head and face. She was eventually listed in critical condition at a hospital. The suspect claimed the woman took his money to buy drugs and that is why he attacked her.
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A criminal complaint levied against the suspect said it was determined the victim suffered a fractured nasal bone, facial hematoma, and a laceration of her oral cavity.
Officials did not charge Jackson with sexual assault but charged him with aggravated battery causing great bodily harm. The CWB Chicago report noted in conclusion that “Judge Charles Beach detained Jackson as a safety threat.”
The news comes as Chicago suffers under rampant crime.
Approximately 21 individuals were shot and four died over the weekend period of February 23 through 25 in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago, Breitbart News reported February 27.
It is important to note that a recent Rasmussen Reports survey found a majority of U.S. citizens believe crime is getting worse in President Joe Biden’s (D) America as the November presidential election approaches, Breitbart News reported February 15.
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The state of New York is sending the National Guard, State Police, and MTA cops into New York City subways, so commuters “feel safe” amid a leadership failure by the mayor that has devastated the city.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) announced Wednesday that she would deploy state law enforcement to the Big Apple subway network, as well as “teams of mental health workers,” to “help commuters and visitors to the city feel safe,” according to the New York Times.
The Times reports:
Additional law enforcement officers would add to an already large presence in the subways, where Mayor Eric Adams ordered an additional 1,000 officers in February following a 45 percent spike in major crimes in January compared with the same time last year.
Grand larcenies — thefts without the use of force — were a main driver of the January spike in crime, according to the police. Grand larcenies are defined by the police as major crimes, along with homicides, assaults and robberies.
Hochul is sending 1,000 members of State Police, National Guard, and MTA cops, ostensibly to conduct “bag checks.” It is unclear how that plan will be executed on the service that sees upward of three million riders per day.
“These brazen heinous attacks on our subway system will not be tolerated,” Hochul said Wednesday. “No one heading to their job or to visit family or go to a doctor appointment should worry that the person sitting next to them possesses a deadly weapon.”
New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) was not present at Hochul’s announcement.
“Subway crime rates surged in the first two months of this year — spiking by nearly 20% compared to this time last year, NYPD stats show. This year alone, three New Yorkers have been shot dead on trains and subway platforms,” the New York Postreported.
“In addition to the patrol boost, Hochul said she will introduce a new law that allows judges to ban anyone who has been convicted of a violent transit assault from riding the Big Apple’s subway or bus system,” the Post wrote.
Hochul did not get into details about how this part of her “plan” would be enforced — especially given the skyrocketing rates of turnstile hoppers, which cost the subway system $690 million in unpaid fares in 2022 — other than installing cameras in conductors’ booths and having the NYPD and district attorneys “create a new early warning system” for subway recidivists.
“The deployment is part of what Ms. Hochul described as a five-point plan, which would provide $20 million and pay for 10 teams of mental health workers who would help people on the subway,” the Times additionally reported.
Felony assaults on New Yorkers are continuing to rise across New York City, specifically in the borough of Manhattan, as Breitbart reported:
In 2022, violent crime in New York City rose 23 percent, with more than 126,500 arrests made for murder and non-negligent manslaughter, robbery, felony assault, rape, burglary, grand larceny, and grand larceny auto — the seven major crime categories.
Felony assaults, often random attacks on New Yorkers by career criminals with extensive rap sheets, totaled more than 26,000 last year. This represents a 60 percent increase from 2008, when felony assaults were at a significant low.
Even compared to recent prior years, felony assaults in 2022 were way up.
For example, felony assaults rose 14 percent in 2022 compared to 2021, 27 percent compared to 2020, 26 percent compared to 2019, 29 percent compared to 2018, and 30 percent compared to 2017.
Last year’s surge in felony assaults on New Yorkers is now continuing this year (2023).
The announcement also comes as New York maintains its “bail reform law,” which allows perps to be released with no bail.
Breitbart reported the effect of this law has been perps being more likely to reoffend than they were before the edict came into effect:
Felony suspects released without bail thanks to New York’s bail reform law are more likely to be rearrested for more felonies, including violent crimes, than suspects who were given bail before the law went into effect.
Overall, the study found that 47 percent of New York City suspects previously charged with felonies were rearrested for crimes — including more than 31 percent of whom were rearrested for felonies, more than 17 percent rearrested for violent crimes, and almost four percent rearrested for firearm charges.
In all three categories, felonies, violent crimes, and firearm charges, felony suspects had a higher rate of rearrest after they were released without bail than those who were arrested and required to post bail before the new law went into effect.
Mayor Adams posted on X (formerly Twitter) Wednesday, that “Murders are DOWN. Shootings are DOWN. Transit crime is DOWN. Car thefts are DOWN. The safest big city in America just got even SAFER.”