tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post8102357934665709779..comments2024-03-29T09:07:03.373-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: The knee-jerk racial apologists are at it againPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-38003336409156112252012-01-20T11:45:57.210-06:002012-01-20T11:45:57.210-06:00They absolutely refused to admit that the real rea...<i>They absolutely refused to admit that the real reason more black people were incarcerated, proportionately speaking, was because they were committing more crimes in proportion to their numbers than other races! That happened to be the simple, literal truth: but it wasn't acceptable to them.</i><br /><br />This might be true, but the proportion of black to white prisoners incarcerated isn't necessarily evidence one way or the other.<br /><br />A categorically bigoted justice system would produce the same result, with different inputs. If black people were more likely to be convicted and imprisoned for the same crime, or sentencing guidelines were stacked against crimes more likely to be committed by black people (the 100:1 weight ratios used for sentencing between powder and crack cocaine, for instance), you would end up with proportionally more black people in prison, without necessarily a higher proportion of black people actually committing crimes.<br /><br />I'm willing to accept the proposal that black people commit more crime, proportionally, but conviction rates aren't the be all and end all of evidence to that effect.perlhaqrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01920117742664645165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-35689818709179310162012-01-19T10:56:36.373-06:002012-01-19T10:56:36.373-06:00Constructing things like this is a pretty common e...Constructing things like this is a pretty common exercise in university geographic information system (GIS) classes. One takes datasets for arrest and crime report data (govrnmrnts at various levels maintain this to support apportionment of federal LEO funding as well as for planning things like patrol areas and new police station locations) and then conducts nearest neighbor analysis of the data. From the nearest neighbor information a dataset for crime density can be developed and mapped. If one has the software, such as Arcview to do this, it's not real difficult.Shadowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15388843890140644376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-55217801258600247072012-01-19T09:33:34.652-06:002012-01-19T09:33:34.652-06:00“Can you imagine me not being able to go to MLK Bl...“Can you imagine me not being able to go to MLK Blvd. because my GPS says that’s a dangerous crime area? I can’t even imagine that."<br /><br />From one of Chris Rock's stand-up routines: "In any city in America, if you go to a street named after Martin Luther King, there's gonna be some violence goin' on."<br /><br />Unfortunately for the woman quoted and the people like her Peter is writing about, Rock is absolutely right.Shellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17673609316649175930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-14214210665525773752012-01-19T08:13:07.353-06:002012-01-19T08:13:07.353-06:00"Facts are facts, dammit!"
What a quain..."Facts are facts, dammit!"<br /><br />What a quaint old fashioned thought.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-28330468079017457772012-01-19T07:57:40.068-06:002012-01-19T07:57:40.068-06:00When I worked for the air-ambulance company, it wo...When I worked for the air-ambulance company, it would have been very nice to have had something like this for when I had to drive to the hospital (in an unfamiliar city) at 0200 in order to pick up the med crew. Paramedics can be popular targets for robbery.<br /><br />LittleRed1Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-24504161036852233032012-01-19T07:40:58.793-06:002012-01-19T07:40:58.793-06:00My only problem is crime statistics do get skewed ...My only problem is crime statistics do get skewed by law enforcment to make things sound better so this app will probably be worthless. In my own city certain crimes are re-cateogrized on orders from on high to make the stats look better.Billynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-20490928635175708882012-01-19T05:46:00.642-06:002012-01-19T05:46:00.642-06:00She be entitled to her own facts.She be entitled to her own facts.JD(not the one with the picture)https://www.blogger.com/profile/08404477489642340522noreply@blogger.com