Privilege In Action!

Crime in Minneapolis is apparently intensely racist:

According to MPD data, 83% of the city’s shooting victims this year have been black. And in 2021, one black shooting victim was identified for every 150 black residents, while one white shooting victim was identified for every 3,768 white residents.

It’s worth noting at this point that the population of MInneapolis is 18.9% black. The imbalance among victims works out to about at 25:1 ratio, per capita.

But wait – the imbalances aren’t done yet:

A significant majority of homicides in Minneapolis, moreover, are committed by black suspects. In 2022, 89% of shooting suspects have been described as black (in cases where police obtain a suspect description from a witness).

As for age, two-thirds of Minneapolis’ shooting victims are 30 years old or younger.

So – young black men are extremelly disproportionally the perps and the victims in Minneapolis.

The lesson is clear, Minneapolis. Vote DFL harder

25 thoughts on “Privilege In Action!

  1. Sorry, but to say the victims and perpetrators of crime in Minneapolis are overwhelmingly black, says nothing.

    Black is nothing more than one easy to recognize variable to enter into a police report, so is gender and so is age.

    Even to suggest that young black men are overwhelmingly the victims and perpetrators of crime in Minneapolis, says nothing.

    However, to say that the majority of the perpetrators, and even perhaps the victims all have lengthy criminal records…

    Now, that says something.

    All you have to do to dramatically reduce crime in the city is to run a simple SQL query on the MPD records system and sort the scum-bags on descending order by the number of arrests – then make it the MPD’s mission to take the top 200 off the streets and keep them off the streets.

    But the powers that be refuse to work like that.

    Vote DFL harder.

  2. I have a solution for you – stop reporting race and poof, we have an even field.

  3. You don’t have to be a genius at stats to notice that the severity a city or a states’s gun control laws don’t correlate very well with the level of gun crimes. Ethnicity and age, however, do correlate to a high degree with gun crimes.
    Nevertheless the Democrats, who like to think of themselves as belonging to the “party of science,” think that keeping middle aged white guys from buying AR 15’s is a rational response to high levels of gun crime.
    It is impossible to be more stupid than a modern Democrat. They literally believe that women can have a penis, and can have sex with men and make the men pregnant.

  4. I work near the Downtown East light rail stop, and every day I’m there, I hear sirens. Fourteen floors up, and hear sirens. I’m out as quickly as possible each day.

  5. Yeah, I read this story in the Strib, however, there was absolutely NO mention of who was committing all of these ‘racist’ shootings. Horribly written article, or should I call it a leftist propaganda piece, with the unspoken understanding being that it’s all those white supremacists doing the shootings.

    Then, last night, I see a story on the news directed specifically at the Hmong community, and their ‘cultural’ problem of domestic violence. Now, why is it ok to single out that minority and highlight the cause and effect of that problem, but we can never ever ever point out the specific, and very real and prevalent problems in the black community without immediately being called out for racism?

    Bullshit. All of it.

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  7. Hmmm, correlation is not causation, but 70% of black kids do not have a biological father in the home. Maybe it IS causative? And that is with a disproportionate share of abortions done to black mothers.

  8. “70% of black kids do not have a biological father in the home.”

    And of the 30% that do, how many of those baby daddies sell dope, commit petty thefts, steal cars and pull strong arm and armed robberies to raise their shorties?

    With nothing to warrant it I aver, other than crime statistics and anecdotal evidence, I’d guess no more than 8-10% of black kids grow up in anything resembling a stable, wholesome home.

  9. Hmmm, correlation is not causation, but 70% of black kids do not have a biological father in the home.

    Hmmmm, but 70% of black males do NOT have a criminal record.

    Race is a physical attribute, criminality is an attribute of behavior and society has wasted immense fortune and goodwill confusing the two.

    The classic example: the killing of Philandro Castile.

    Officer Yanez saw Castile as a suspect based on appearance – while ignoring the obvious – Castile had no criminal history and Yanez should have known that a man of his age with no record should have all but ruled out him being a suspect of just about anything.

    This matter is vital to Republicans and conservatives because the coalition that liberals have used to destroy our society is falling apart and if we cannot lose our prejudices based on appearance rather than behavior, we are doomed to let this opportunity slip away.

  10. “Hmmmm, but 70% of black males do NOT have a criminal record.”

    Lol, no.

    Maybe in Africa. We’re talking about the US

    Also, lack of a criminal record is proof you didn’t get caught yet, not that you’re law abiding.

  11. I will agree that it’s culture and low IQ more than “race”; but with Negroes they are all intertwined at the genetic level.

    “Conservatives” see a dozen black faces at GOP conventions or online and proclaim we’re #winning!!!

    Lol, no.

  12. “People with felony convictions more broadly account for 8 percent of the overall population and 33 percent of the African-American male population.”

    https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170928121641.htm

    That’s just *felony convictions*. Doesn’t account for lesser crimes (like domestic violence, or simple assault) and those let off in diversion programs.

    Facts don’t see color.

  13. South Africa was once a 1st world country. They were a nuclear power. It’s where heart transplants were perfected. They produced nice automobiles and trucks domestically.

    Then the black African, ANC took control. Today, its one of the most violent countries on the planet, and well on the way back to 3rd world status.

    https://businesstech.co.za/news/lifestyle/272641/south-africa-is-one-of-the-most-violent-and-dangerous-places-in-the-world/

    Maybe they just need more diversity training, eh Greg?

  14. Starbuck;
    I think I saw the same article, if it involved a murder – suicide. Guy sends kids into the basement, aged 2 – 9, then shoots his wife, then himself. God bless the maturity of the 9 year old to understand what happened, then ushered the little ones out so they wouldn’t see the bodies.
    On a side note, one of those “evil St. Paul police officers”, stopped at McDonald’s on his way to the call, to help distract the kids.

  15. Maybe they just need more diversity training, eh Greg?

    I get it, your knuckles drag when you walk.

  16. That’s great, we have to keep a few of the old time bigots around. I sure wouldn’t want to see the species go extinct. I mean there has got to be something for the touring kids groups to point and giggle at.

  17. But let me ask you Greg. What does it say about your considered worldview, which doesn’t provide you with a cogent response to a knuckle dragging, troglodyte’s arguments?

    Gotta go slay a wildebeest with a rock… Talk to you later.

  18. Handle the crime problem in Minneapolis by treating it as a problem with a pareto distribution among criminals. So something like 1% of individuals are responsible for 99% of criminal acts. The population of Minneapolis is about half a million, so that’s 5,000 people. Still too many to deal with so go to the next step: 0.1% of the people in Minneapolis are responsible for 90% of the crimes. That’s just 500 people, that can be dealt with pretty easily by the justice system.
    In fact this is how big cities usually police themselves. Balance police presence with civil liberties and keep crime levels bearable by locking up the worst of the worst.
    But what if the worst of the worst are overwhelmingly black?
    The mayor of Minneapolis, its council members, and its police chief know how to fix the problem, but the political situation in Minneapolis forbids them from doing what they have to do, so instead they will spend money on useless, fake, crime control measures while the city burns.
    Minneapolis is not a dictatorship. All of the people at the top are accountable to the voters. The voters of Minneapolis are getting the crime control regime that they chose. The people have spoken. If you don’t like it, avoid going to Minneapolis and don’t live in Minneapolis.

  19. “Handle the crime problem in Minneapolis by treating it as a problem with a pareto distribution among criminals.”

    With respect, UMMP, that is is something only someone who has not lived near concentrations of blacks would consider viable.

    When you remove that .1%, and members of the remaining cohort quickly move to replace them. I’ve seen this phenomenon first hand.

    Back in my MC days, the clubhouse was located at 27th and Emerson N. (It’s still there). We enforced a “no dealing” mandate within a 2sq block radius around us. They’d test us, but eventually, the dealers realized it was more trouble than it was worth to ignore it, and we’d come to terms.

    But by the time they were into their mid 20’s, most were dead, in prison or had found a city funded “gang ministry” grift, and their younger siblings would take the trade up and we’d start over again. It was a never ending cycle that I 100% guarantee the members are still dealing with.

    The only way to deal with criminal societies is to enforce decent standards of behavior, Unfortunately, the majority population doesn’t have the will to do that.

    It’s going to get worse.

  20. “The only way to deal with criminal societies is to enforce decent standards of behavior, throughout the community; top to bottom”

    FTFM

  21. Along the same topic-nation-wide, Blacks at 13% of the population commit over 50% of all homicides. But if you look further, it gets worse. No doubt around 99.9% of all those homicides are committed by males, so you have 6-7% of the population committing half the homicides. Going down-by far most of those homicides are committed by young Black males, roughly around 15-25 years old. So just using rough estimates, around 3% of the population commit over 50% of all homicides.

  22. Regarding the father hypothesis, it’s contested, but there are a number of sub-hypotheses that can be tested. First, you have a family where both father and mother are living together (or not), and thus demonstrate a short term time preference. (that’s also why you don’t find “banks” in poor areas, because those with short term time preference just spend their money instead of saving it) Second, you have a situation where Dad isn’t perceived to have the authority of a “real father” if he’s not married Mom (again, time preference not being long term), and thus his discipline suffers. Third, if Dad isn’t responsible for the expenses, but rather Uncle Sam & Uncle Tim here in MN, then the child doesn’t learn to connect work with prosperity.

    It’s one of the best known realities of sociology, really, that when Dad’s not married to Mom, then statistically speaking, not absolutely, things tend to work out worse for the children. That’s the case with crime, academic achievement, and a lot more.

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