The Truth About Crime and Race

I'm still in shock over the coverage of crime and race by the New York Times. I covered it earlier here. The paper was making a front-page story of the fact that 68 percent of stop and frisks are conducted on blacks and Hispanics. Only later do they allow a police spokesman to state that 98 percent of all shootings in metropolitan New York are done by blacks and Hispanics. This isn't journalism, it's something else. Perhaps "criminal enterprise," Lawrence Auster's words, is it.

Here's what the great--I don't care if she's an atheist--Heather MacDonald says:

Here are the crime data that the Times doesn't want its readers to know: blacks committed 66 percent of all violent crimes in the first half of 2009 (though they were only 55 percent of all stops and only 23 percent of the city's population). Blacks committed 80 percent of all shootings in the first half of 2009. Together, blacks and Hispanics committed 98 percent of all shootings. Blacks committed nearly 70 percent of all robberies. Whites, by contrast, committed 5 percent of all violent crimes in the first half of 2009, though they are 35 percent of the city's population (and were 10 percent of all stops). They committed 1.8 percent of all shootings and less than 5 percent of all robberies. The face of violent crime in New York, in other words, like in every other large American city, is almost exclusively black and brown.