Every criminals covered on the news, from NYC subway mugging to massive looting in Los Angeles and everywhere in between, they're almost always BLACK folks. Is this itself racial profiling, or is this the sad truth of America today? One day, it's about saving black lives. Then the next day, it's about other people suffering by some black dude. You can't help but feel conflicted.
Why are all the criminals black?
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not if you watch certain news programs. Then the only criminals are black the hero’s who will save us have hookers for wives.
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For the same reason media overreports on young blondes missing.
What news channels are you watching...must be local news channels you're watching ?
I have cable channels and subscribe to a few U.S. channels and get a few French channels...the ethnicity is mixed among different groups of criminals being profiled here in Québec, Canada. Also, I live next door to a police chief of my city and recently he commented most of the crime stories lately seem to be related to organized crimes...mainly White (Italian/Russian/ immigrants) and some Hells Angles types.
In contrast, I do get a few local channels from Vermont...the criminals profiled on TV seem to be mostly White and when I was traveling through eastern Kentucky...most of the criminals were White when I was watching a local news channel in a hotel lobby until I hit western Kentucky where it changed to Hispanic/Black being profiled on the TV news.
In New York, visiting a few friends...I was looking at the TV in the hotel lobby not that far from Cornell...most of the criminals on TV were White.
Then when I was in South Dakota...most criminals on TV were White or Indigenous. Iowa was mostly white criminals in the news and then when I hit Chicago the criminals on TV were mainly Black or Hispanic.
Yet, looking back in hindsight at all the mass shooting/mass stabbing news on TV...mostly White and Hispanic in both Canada and the United States although there was a recent news story about an Indigenous Canadian mass stabbing (killing) people.
By the way, in South France...most criminals in the news looked White but I knew they were immigrants or migrants based on their names. One could say I'm profiling too.
Location, Location, and Location
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What the hell is wrong with you?
If a serious crime is committed by a person, they will cover that news no matter the color of their skin! The fact that a majority of crimes that you pay attention to are by people with dark-skin is your own problem.
Whitey just as bad as darky!
That's why I specifically asked whether this is another form of racial profiling. No doubt, crimes are committed across all race spectrum, but the majority of reported crimes seems to be disproportionately black.
BTW I'm specifically talking about the crimes in the US.
There is a lot of profiling and it is disproportionately black in the United States. For example, the latest U.S. Census 2021 shows individuals as African Americans represent 13.6% of the U.S. population versus the statement of 6% as stated by username @ipatent
I do understand what ipatent is saying even though his percentages are incorrect.
Yet, as I mentioned in my prior message...I think it depends on your location and the news source you're watching. As an example, whenever I pay any attention to the TV news...it does talk about murders more often than not even though at the time of the news story the criminal has not been arrested nor identified.
In contrast, 68.2 percent of violent crimes reported to law enforcement...
Robbery offenses accounted for 22.3 percent of violent crime offenses; rape (legacy definition) accounted for 8.2 percent, and murder accounted for 1.4 percent.
- Simply, 1.4 percent that involved murders are accounting for most of today's news stories. That's an amazing discrepancy in the news media.
I haven't done the math but it does change the above 51.2%.
Yet, what really caught my eye was the "other crimes that are dominated by Whites...2 to 1 (blue highlight in below image) with the exception of robbery.
Now back to the location, location, and location that I mention...that 2 to 1 (highlighted above in blue) fits what I typically saw in the United States news stories...it was the main reason why I specifically identified the states I was traveling but overall murders that accounted only 1.4% were the main news story night after night...giving me the impression that murders were the most common crime when in fact it was not.
- Another interesting statistic, most violent crimes are done during the day but the media...3 to 1 of their violent crime news stories involve crimes at night...creating an illusion that it's safer during the day than it is at night.
- “Assaults on white women by African-American men are a small minority of all sexual assaults in the United States, but they constitute half of the sexual assaults with eyewitness misidentifications that led to exoneration.”
- “African-American sexual assault exonerees received much longer prison sentences than white sexual assault exonerees, and they spent on average almost four-and-a-half years longer in prison before exoneration. It appears that innocent black sexual assault defendants receive harsher sentences than whites if they are convicted, and then face greater resistance to exoneration even in cases in which they are ultimately released.”
Crime is everywhere regardless of race. Those that are focusing on one race have an agenda or they're just paranoid about those in their neighborhood/community and it becomes obvious when they continue targeting that one race in other situations (e.g. politics, academia) not involving criminal activity.
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