Black Crime Statistics Are Hopelessly Screwed…I Mean Skewed

Statistics are a fascinating tool. They are quite helpful in helping people see trends in whatever system the stats are being employed to measure. A store that keeps statistics on their inventory would be able to track trends for consumes and be in a better position do their business in a smarter and more efficient way. That really is a given. But statistics purely focused on negative aspects of black behavior are nothing more than confirmations of the racist tendencies of a white dominated culture.

Anyone with eyes who is open to the possibility that it may exist will see the disparity between the way black people and white people who are subjected to the legal and judicial system. Black people are constantly and consistently held in a state of subjugation for their skin color. The case in Jena, Louisiana is a prime example of how white kids who are provocateurs in a racially sensitive situation are given considerably more consideration for their behavior while black kids who are merely responding to the overlooked but nevertheless criminal behavior of their white counterparts are being prosecuted for attempted murder (for a brief review click here).

The white community leaders who run the Jena, Louisiana legal system, law enforcement system, and educational system are able to identify with the white children and dismiss their behavior as little more than silly pranks. Yet, because of their innate fear of black people, any behavior that indicates black people are not behaving within the strict parameters white people deem acceptable is intolerable. What white people consider other white people do as just releasing steam and venting when black people do the same thing it is attempted murder. At this very moment six black youths are facing justice in the Jena legal system trying to defend themselves from a system bent on rolling over black people.

Statistics will show that the white people in Jena, Louisiana are good law abiding citizens while black people are criminals with no respect for the law. But what reality shows is that the educational system, law enforcement system, and the judicial system has consistently failed to handle this situation in a manner that would have completely avoided the situation getting so out of hand. In essence, there was no criminal activity until a white person became a victim. Why? Because statistics show that black people are not the victim of crimes perpetrated by white people. Therefore it is absurd to assume white people do crime against black people.

The whole justice system is so tilted in white people’s favor it is ridiculous. I remember watching a 60 Minutes article about the abuse of citizens in the war on drugs. A portion of the article showed a video of a state trooper patrolling the I-10 corridor on the west side of Louisiana. The trooper had pulled over a white drunk driver in a pickup truck. The man was not known by the trooper but he was a local. The trooper told him to go home and sleep it off and left the man to go on his merry, inebriated way. The same night, the trooper stopped a black woman driving a minivan from out of state. She was traveling with two or three kids. He didn’t give her a ticket and was about to let her go when he suddenly turned and asked if she had any cash on her. She was traveling with a large amount of cash on her person, more than a thousand but less than two. She was hauled away suspected of drug trafficking. At the time, the federal government was funding a program where the state kept a portion of any money seized in the war on drugs. Officer David Duke just made a bust for the coffers of Louisiana. Although she was never charged she never received her money back.

And then there’s the legal wrangling from legal moves employed by white people to get their crimes erased from the books. More likely than not white people have access to legal maneuvers that black people can only wish for. Typically, a white person who faces a judge will have more options that the black person who may be in the same exact predicament. Changes are dropped and the crime is dismissed as if it never happened. More skews in the statistics.

So if the justice and legal system is skewed it should be a reasonable conclusion that the statistics kept on such a skewed system will be skewed as well. If black people are the only ones being pulled over for speeding statistics will show that only black people speed and so law enforcement will be justified in keeping their focus only on black drivers. It is a never ending circle of propaganda. The statistics of the legal system are not based on reality but on the perspective of a white dominated society that is focused intently on the reinforcing the misinformation that black people are more criminally oriented than their white counterparts.

Statistics are an invaluable tool. They are very helpful in predicting trends and establishing an understanding of the world when they are honest and kept in perspective with other available information. However, statistics of black on black crime and such, as skewed as they are do have one useful purpose. Black on black crime statistics are useful in showing that most people who ask for them or believe in them without question suffer from a predisposition to judge black people as generally inferior to white people.