Hate crimes hit 5-year high in LA County
Racial conflict in Los Angeles is an growing problem, as we've noted before. And things aren't getting any better -- in fact, 2007 crime stats show a 28% increase over 2006.
Do the experts have any idea what's behind it? As a matter of fact, they do:
Civil rights attorney Connie Rice, who had not seen the report, said it is important to remember that hate crimes represent only a tiny percentage of overall crime numbers. She said the increase is likely a reflection of economic times.
"When economic times gets tighter, hate crime violence goes up," she said, adding that child abuse and domestic violence often increase for the same reason.
Hmmm. Seems to me training in how to start a small business would be more effective in reducing hate crimes than more mind-numbing, other-worldly tolerance indoctrination -- that is, if you believe the word of an attorney actually working with the residents of Los Angeles over that of self-proclaimed "experts."
And it seems the perpetrators of these hate crimes aren't who you'd think -- that is, if you believe the stereotypes from the tolerance peddlers:
Gangs are a factor in many hate crimes. In all, 16 percent of hate crimes last year were committed by gang members. According to the report, gang members committed 120 hate crimes last year, an increase of 14 percent from 2006.
Gangs? Yes -- and we're not talking about skinheads or Nazis, but black and Latino gangs. Now that's odd -- whites constitute 47% of the population in Los Angeles, yet commit only 17% of the hate crimes, according to the report. That's a very, very different impression than what you get reading the Southern Poverty Law Center's tolerance fatwas.
The problem is obvious -- reality has failed to keep up with the SPLC message.
posted by Michael Tuggle @ Thursday, July 24, 2008
5 Comments
5 Comments:
When one knuckle-head beats up another knuckle-head, it's assault.
But, when one knuckle-head beats up a knuckle-head of a different color, that's a hate driven crime?
A horse is a horse, but not if it’s a horse of a different color.
What happened to their utopian “colorblind society”, anyway?
son3,
There never was a colorblind Utopian society. Just pseudo-Utopian societies where people command you to be colorblind.
Fire and fire,
Yes, but it seems like they're not even playing by their own rules; by inventing laws reguarding a person's "color", they are showing that they themselves are not "colorblind".
son3,
That's as good of an analysis of "hate" crimes as I've ever seen.
fire and fire,
It's the "command" part of a utopian society that's the real goal -- forget the "it's a small world" happy talk -- power for the enlightened elite is what it's all about.
They know complete, unquestioning acceptance of all cultures and peoples is an impossible foundation for a society, and that the only way you can approach one is to impose it, and continue to impose it by force and fraud.
Again, unlimited government power is what they're really after.
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