From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Fri Aug 10 2001 - 07:54:27 MDT
Joe Dees wrote:
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> It's because cops, trivially, exist within cop culture, and identify and socialize with fellow officers more than they do with racial conspecifics, many of whom stigmatize police due to their status as the enforcement arm of what they perceive as unjust
laws against victimless crimes. Most blacks, similarly, exist in a black culture that most nonblacks do not share. This addresses the issue of black-on-black crime; the criminals committing it are not racists, but, trivially, criminals, exploiiting tar
gets of opportunity, and since black criminals move mainly within black cultural circles, most of their targets of opportunity are black.
However, criminals generally do not target opportunistically. They plan,
they research, and they avoid areas with significant police presence, or
where private citizens are known to be well armed.
While police generally do avoid minority areas, or at the least tend to
underserve them, primarily due to a reticence against starting a riot
every time they arrest a black criminal, it is a fact that gun ownership
among blacks is lower than among any other minority group, and less than
a quarter of the level among whites.
If black criminals target other blacks, they do so specifically because
they know they have less chance of being caught or shot.
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