by Daniel Greenfield
The number of black murder victims rose 62% in one year.
The Black Lives Matter movement and the allied criminal justice
reform movement which opened jails and decriminalized crimes led to a
nearly 30% surge in murders in 2020.
The 29.4% increase is historically unprecedented.
The worst one-year percentage jump in murders was a 12.7% increase
in 1968 during a crime wave that led Democrats and Republicans to
embrace tough on crime policies. 1968 was the year that LBJ signed the
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act into law. But the opposite
happened in 2020 as Democrats and some libertarian Republicans colluded
to dismantle the criminal justice system, open up the jails, and endorse
Black Lives Matter.
The pro-crimers have the blood of thousands on their hands.
The FBI’s numbers are in and they show that Black Lives Matter and
its corporate backers killed more black people in one year than anything
short of an African civil war.
3,595 black people were murdered in 2019. But in 2020, 5,839 black people were murdered.
That's an additional 2,244 black people killed.
56% of the murder victims of 2020 were black.
While people of all races were more likely to be murdered in the
year of Black Lives Matter, black people were disproportionately likely
to be killed as a result of police defunding and the George Floyd
Effect, as well as the pressure on the justice system to open up
prisons, free criminals, and stop arresting new criminals in the name of
fighting for the big lie of racial justice.
3,060 white and Latino people were killed in 2019, which rose to
4,167 in 2020. The 36% increase is devastating, but the number of black
people murdered in 2020 shot up 62%.
The 62% increase in the murders of black people should be the
headline in every single media outlet which currently treats the lack of
black classical musicians or chefs as a major crisis.
While statistics like 135 "unarmed" black people being shot by
police in 5 years becomes a cause for massive riots, violent assaults on
innocent people, and the defunding of the police, a 62% increase in the
murders of black people won’t even get a mention from the same media
which regales us with claims that car accidents are racist because of
disproportionate impact.
The 62% increase in the murders of black people is the biggest disproportionate impact statistic.
If the 2,244 black people had been shot by white people, Asian
people, or Republicans, we could talk about it. Indeed, the odds are
that we would never talk about anything else. Ever.
But unfortunately it’s the devastating result of black-on-black crime.
Black perpetrators were responsible for 5,832 murders or
approximately 50% of the murders despite making up only around 13% of
the population.
White people and Latinos who make up 76% of the country accounted
for 3,981 homicides or 34%. American Indians were responsible for 116
murders and Asians for only 65 murders.
Black people both commit murders and are the victims of murders at disproportionate rates.
There is no escaping these facts.
Coddling criminals and defunding police hurts people of all races,
but black people are the ones suffering the worst from the gang members
and criminals in their communities.
The number of black murderers rose 38% from 4,208 to 5,832. That’s a
sharp increase in black murderers, but it’s dwarfed by the 62% increase
in black murders. The number of black crime victims is rising much
faster than the number of black criminals.
Black people are becoming victims at higher rates than they are becoming criminals.
That is exactly why it was black communities who originally
championed a crackdown on crime, why the NAACP had originally demanded
the death penalty for drug dealers, and why black people are still far
more likely to oppose police defunding and other pro-crime measures.
Even in the one category of violent crime, rape, that decreased
overall in 2020, that was true of every group except one where the
number of black rape victims defied the trend.
But black rape victims, like black lives, don’t matter to Black Lives Matter.
In Israel, the hashtag Arab Lives Matter took off after the rise in
arab-on-arab crime to demand that Israeli police stop the criminals. In
the United States, Black Lives Matter is a demand that the police allow
gang members to shoot up black neighborhoods with no interference.
The additional 2,244 dead black people are a tribute to Black Lives Matter’s efforts.
While Robin DiAngelo cashes in preaching the cult of anti-racism,
and suburban white liberals search their souls for systemic racism,
what’s really destroying black people is in the numbers.
5,839 black people were murdered in one year.
Homicide doesn't even make the CDC's top 10 causes of
death for men in America, but it's number four for black men. In 2017,
it caused 5% of the deaths of black men, more than strokes, diabetes, or
most diseases. The only things more likely to kill black men than
black-on-black crime are heart disease, cancer, and accidents.
Among black men under the age of 20, homicide is the leading cause of death at 35.3%.
(Those were 2017 numbers, the 2020 numbers, if they’re released, will be much worse.)
It's also the leading cause of death for black men from 20-44 years old at 27.6%.
Only at the age of 65 does homicide drop out of the top 10 causes of death for black men.
There are no such numbers among any other group, including black
women. They reflect a high rate of gang violence, drug dealing, and
violent crime among a subset of black men. This crisis is not news.
There has been ample research on the subject going back generations that
the new wokeness decided to shut down, suppress, and penalize anyone
who mentioned it.
In 2020, the Left used George Floyd’s overdose death to initiate a
massive cultural revolution, supposedly on behalf of black people, but
in reality to spread terror and seize power.
Just as the proletariat paid the price for the leftist revolutions
conducted on behalf of the working class, black men are paying the price
for the latest revolution being waged on their behalf. The people
paying the price may be ordinary, or they may be gang members
themselves. The dismantling of the criminal justice system also led to
an unprecedented expansion in crime that recruited a generation of black
teens into drug dealing, robbery, and carjacking. The police now
routinely arrest armed carjackers as young as twelve years old as part
of the new crime wave.
Even if a new anti-crime consensus is forged between conservative
Republicans and moderate Democrats who shed the madness of criminal
justice reform, the damage will be hard to fix.
Cracking down on crime increased property values in black areas, led
to a growth in black small businesses, and made it more possible for
black teens to go to college, and earn higher incomes. Black Lives
Matter calculatedly undermined many of those achievements. The teens
whom teachers’ unions kept out of school, joined gangs, and began to
deal and steal will find it much harder to build stable lives. The women
they might have married and the families they might have built are more
casualties. It is hard to build things, but all too easy to break them.
The 5,839 dead black people are just the most obvious sign of the social wreckage.
While black people are the biggest victims of black crime, they are
not alone. As these statistics show, we all pay a price. Some pay it
directly in the forms of murders, muggings, and assaults. But we all pay
for the social cost indirectly through our taxes, the price of goods
and services, the cost of insurance, the broken social compact and lack
of trust, and the diminished future of our cities and our country. The
criminal justice reform movement, like all leftist propositions, was
based on ignoring everything we had learned from the past about crime
and how to fight it.
The Black Lives Matter movement terrorized cities and became the
official dogma of Corporate America. Every major institution began
accusing itself of systemic racism and purging itself.
Meanwhile thousands of black men died in the streets of major
cities. The CEOs and university presidents heard the death toll reported
on the evening news and paid no attention because it was taking place
in neighborhoods and housing projects that they would never set foot
into.
Now the sum total of the carnage is in. 5,839 black people killed.
2021 is on track to see more elevated murder rates. The question is how
many black people have to die until the big lie of systemic racism, the
scam of anti-racism, and the criminal justice reform killing fields end.
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Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an
investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and
Islamic terrorism.
Source: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/09/black-lives-matter-killed-2000-black-people-daniel-greenfield/
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