Crime rates spike, as ignorant social warriors take charge

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/apr/21/crime-rates-spike-as-
social-warriors-take-charge/

On Monday night in Chicago, a vigil was held for Jaslyn Adams, a 7-year-
old Black girl who was brutally murdered after her car got caught in the
crosshairs of a gang-related shooting at a local McDonald’s drive-thru.

“Please put the guns down,” Tawny McMullen, Jaslyn’s’ aunt, pleaded to
viewers of the local ABC News. “My 8-year-old baby says she doesn’t want
to go out and play because she is scared that she is going to be shot.”

No one outside of Chicago knows Jaslyn’s name. Black Lives Matter (BLM)
activists and social justice warriors were instead transfixed on the
outcome of the George Floyd trial. The mainstream media carried the
verdict live, President Biden spoke about the need to stamp out systemic
racism, and Vice President Kamala Harris pledged “we are going to make
something good come out of this tragedy.”

Floyd had his justice, but Jaslyn may never have hers. Her killers are
still not in custody — and the political left and our national news media
doesn’t seem to care.

For, Jaslyn’s case doesn’t fit the narrative – she wasn’t a Black girl
killed by a cop, she was a Black girl killed in gang violence.

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There are more deaths like Jaslyn’s taking place each and every day in
American cities than there are like Floyd’s, they just don’t get the
attention they deserve. You see, Jaslyn’s death can’t be blamed on
“systemic racism” or “white privilege,” the BLM narratives that are
tearing our country apart and fueling more violence.

Travis Campbell, a PhD student in economics at the University of
Massachusetts Amherst, analyzed the effect of BLM protests in the cities
they occurred in from 2014 to 2019. He found the protests correlated with
a 10% increase in murders. In the years he analyzed, there was somewhere
between 1,000 and 6,000 more homicides than there would’ve been if these
protests never occurred.

Why is this? Well, it’s called the Ferguson affect: Law-enforcement
officers simply pull back from their jobs because of the intensified media
and political scrutiny that comes with the BLM movement.

Harvard economists back up Mr. Campbell’s findings. After sensationalized
national news coverage of police use of deadly force in Baltimore,
Chicago, Cincinnati, Ferguson, Missouri and Riverside, California, they
found there were almost 900 more homicides and 34,000 more felonies as
cops pulled back from voluntary activities like questioning suspicious
individuals and not bothering with traffic stops. In Chicago, Harvard
economists found the number of police-civilian interactions decreased by
almost 90% the month after the city’s investigation into deadly force.

The result?

Last year, Chicago had 769 homicides, a 55% increase from the year prior,
and among the highest the city has ever recorded. The overwhelming
majority of the victims — 78% — were Black. There was only one unarmed
Black man who was killed by a police officer — after a high-speed car
chase, where the man fled a warrant for his arrest.

The entire BLM narrative of unarmed, Black men being killed by police
officers is greatly exaggerated. Of the 1,021 people who were killed by
officers last year, 243 of them were Black, and only 18 of those were
unarmed, according to The Washington Post Fatal Force tracker. The total
number of those killed by officers has also remained steady, year over
year, at about 1,000.

Yet, that reality doesn’t match the American public’s perception.

Americans who identify as liberal or very liberal believe 1,000 or more
unarmed Black men were murdered by police in 2019, according to a survey
produced by Skeptic.com. Only 12 were.

The second question the survey asked was: “In 2019, what percentage of
people killed by police were Black?” Liberals guessed 58% and
conservatives 41%. The actual percentage is 22%.

Liberal politicians, by championing the BLM movement, are causing this
distortion in reality. They’re also indirectly causing crime rates to jump
in Black communities around the country as police officers back away from
their jobs, and some quit altogether.

Calls for police reform may be justified to build better relationships and
trust among the Black community. But defunding the police or abolishing it
altogether like some progressive lawmakers have advocated is a step
backwards and will lead to even more deaths of innocent Black girls like
Jaslyn Adams.

We need the perception to start matching the reality.

• Kelly Sadler is commentary editor at The Washington Times.



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