Life is Golden
The Sage
A staggering 43% increase in the murders of black Americans in 2020 compared to the past 10-year average.
The finding is shocking — but not surprising. After all, New York proved decades ago that reducing crime disproportionally benefited blacks and Latinos because they comprise most of crime’s victims. Fewer crimes mean fewer victims of all races, but the drop is most pronounced among nonwhites.
If we didn’t know it before, we now know the opposite is also true. More crimes mean more black and Latino victims.
All this matters because the nation’s large cities are so swamped by horrific crime and violence that police, criminologists and a few honest elected Democrats are finally conceding the obvious: the progressive movement, including Black Lives Matter, that ostensibly aimed to protect minority racial groups by defunding the police and coddling criminals backfired big time.
The people the progressives claimed to be helping actually were harmed by the anti-police, pro-criminal policies.
Bill Bratton, who led the Los Angeles police between two terms as head of the NYPD, recently put it this way on a podcast: “The scales right now are tipped very heavily in favor of the reforms of the progressive left . . . and what we have as a result is this growing fear of crime, this growing actual amount of crime in almost every American city.
https://nypost.com/2022/04/19/lefti...a-crime-surge-with-more-black-latino-victims/