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Wednesday, April 25, 2018

WATCH: Shapiro: How Do You Solve Crime In The Black Community?

During the Q&A after his Wednesday night speech at the University of Connecticut, Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro was asked what the solution was to crime-ridden black neighborhoods. Shapiro started by delineating the causes of crime, largely the skyrocketing rate of single motherhood (which he also noted has skyrocketed in white communities), and the absence of a strong police force in those black neighborhoods. He then articulated a three-pronged solution: increased policing; a cultural focus on fathers staying in the home and mothers not bearing children out of wedlock; and an individual commitment not to commit crimes that should be inculcated not by the schools, but by parents.

The exchange went like this:

Questioner: “One of my questions is you talk about this culture between black and black violence. What is your solution, then, to that?”

Shapiro: “Don’t commit crimes.”

Questioner: “I feel like there’s a bigger issue.”

Shapiro:

My broader solution, really, is that these communities require more police, not less. There’s a woman named Jill Leovy, she writes for the LA Times; she’s actually on the Left, and she wrote an entire book about how a lot of the disparities in crime, particularly in black communities, were due to racism, but not in the way that we think of racism, like white cops going in and beating people up in black neighborhoods, but because white people basically said to black neighborhoods, “Take care of yourself. If there’s high violence in your areas then you take care of it yourself.”

That leads to higher tribal levels of violence in any society, right? Whenever there’s not an enforcement mechanism in place to actually stop crime, then the crime rates go up. And in fact, the “broken windows” theory in New York City has saved an enormous number of black lives because the police were actually present and active. You need more active present police hunting down people who kill other people, that’s part of the problem; part of the problem is that you actually need fathers to stick around. This is true in white communities and black communities. One of the great tragedies of the last four decades in the United States is that the single motherhood rate has risen not just in the black community, from 20 percent in 1960 to over 70 percent now, but in five percent in the white community to over 40 percent now. That’s a huge jump in both communities; young men, particularly, do need a male influence there to curb them. As a man who was once young, I can attest to this. So I think that’s another aspect.

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9 comments:

  1. Yes, white single parent motherhood has increased but the fathers keep coming into OC on the Salisbury bus looking for starving white females and and there are a lot of them. In particular, a lot of foreign workers seek out a baby anchor to permit them to stay here. You only need to drive through the neighborhoods to the West about 15th street.

    I call them the forgotten population.

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  2. We don't have the manpower in Salisbury to adequately patrol the troublesome areas of the city. For that, we would need a minimum of 30 more officers.

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    1. Lol for what ? So they can change the call stats.

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  3. Thugs be thugs yo

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  4. 8:38 PM - Thanks for the tip! Er, I mean, warning!

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  5. The media have made the police the bad guys for policing black neighborhoods by calling them racist and that too many black people are in prison so they avoid it. Which creates more crime and more black people in prison and a community pattern that never changes...By screaming racism and promoting victimhood instead of personal responsibility the media and the left keep the black community down while acting like their saviors.

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  6. Put together a "Citizens Police Patrol" arm them, and let them patrol the black neighborhoods.

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  7. Many cities that have an overwhelmed police department have turned to "Citizen" patrols. Eyes and ears are the best defence against rising crime.

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  8. Always someone else's fault, huh?

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