The recent upsurge among white liberals of their quasi-religious belief that racial differences in average behavior can’t possibly be real—“the Great Awokening”—is on a collision course with the routine workings of the criminal justice system, which finds that, say, blacks are several dozen times more homicidal per capita than are Asians.
Something’s got to give.
One interesting implication of the endlessly hilarious Jussie Smollett false flag is that due to technological advances, it’s becoming increasingly hard to get away with a crime, if the police feel like investing enough man-hours in tracking you down.
In Chicago, for instance, the cops wound up with gigantic amounts of evidence of Smollett’s guilt, such as video of the Nigerian bodybuilder brothers buying a red baseball cap.
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Most, if not quite all, of the upscale Streeterville neighborhood of Chicago turned out to be under round-the-clock video surveillance. Likewise, almost every sidewalk in Manhattan, I am told, will eventually be recorded.
Similarly, cell phone records of messages sent and locations visited provided a minute-by-minute timeline of Jussie’s hate hoax.
DNA technology is also making it harder to get away with murder. For example, in the Queens jogger murder case that was decided this week in New York, the cops started out with the assumption that the pretty young speech pathologist had been killed by “two jacked-up white guys from Howard Beach.” But when the DNA found under her fingernails turned out to be of black ancestry, the NYPD obtained samples from 384 sketchy black guys in the area.
Law enforcement has recently been making arrests in cold cases from decades ago. Killers and rapists are tracked down via their relatives posting their own DNA online.
Obviously, it’s extraordinarily premature to be talking about the End of Crime.
But, increasingly, crime doesn’t pay.
On the other hand, keep in mind that criminal justice majors aren’t usually the highest SAT scorers, so don’t trust the police to apply all this new technology faultlessly. Also, in the most serious crime, murder, the main witness is dead, so it’s harder to figure out what happened. While law enforcement has done much better than the media in seeing through hate hoaxes, don’t expect them to be unerring in constructing cases from fragmentary clues.
And most of the time, the police don’t have the resources that the Chicago detectives directed at the Jussie Smollett case in the dead of winter under the prodding of national hysteria about MAGA bros running amok in Chicago during the polar vortex.
Still, crime should be falling due to better technology. We citizens ought to expect that our public servants enforce policies that drive down crime rates, especially the homicide rate, which is the hardest for authorities to game (because dead bodies require a lot of paperwork).
Yet, the number of murdered human beings in the U.S. went up 22 percent from 2014, the Year of Ferguson, to 2016.
