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In Wilmington, Delaware, store owners say police do not respond to frequent calls to report shoplifting. “It happens all the time,” said one store owner. “We have it on video. But the police won’t do anything about it or even file a report.”

Also in Wilmington in August 2012, a group of 10 black people attacked a minister, knocking him unconscious. He waited for police for more than an hour before going to the hospital without filing a police report.

At a community meeting several days later, neighbors talked about the violence in that neighborhood, and how they did not report it because they feared retaliation—one of the main reasons for not reporting crime cited in the Department of Justice study. Twenty percent of the victims also lack confidence in the ability of police to do anything about the lawlessness, says the study.

In schools, 75 percent of the 450,000 violent crimes that happen every year were not reported during the five year period from 2006 to 2010.

In Baltimore reporters lament that people who worry about large racial disturbances in the Inner Harbor just are not well enough informed about declining crime statistics.

Denise Kostka was one of those people. We met Kostka in
chapter 15
. She is the woman who saw from her hotel window the large group of black people fighting and destroying property on the streets of Inner Harbor. When she returned to her New Jersey home, she called the Baltimore police to see what had happened. There were no police reports.

“It was just another group of kids … just something that happens.”
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Curiously, just three days before, the same newspaper ran a story about how the police misreported a St. Patrick’s Day 2012 riot that involved five hundred to one thousand black people, maybe more, not just the ten or so originally said to be involved.

The incident that kicked off the
Sun
’s investigation was the viral video of a black mob beating, robbing, and stripping the clothes from a tourist on the streets of the Inner Harbor_that I mentioned in
chapter 15
.

Less than a week later, Maryland State legislator Pat McDonough called on the Governor and Mayor of Baltimore to create a “No-Travel” zone in Inner Harbor because black mob violence was making it too dangerous. Maryland’s political
establishment and
The Baltimore Sun
lined up to excoriate him as “dangerous” and a “race-baiter” and “misinformed.”

A spokesman for the mayor of Baltimore reminded everyone that his boss had reduced crime to historic lows. And “as an elected official, Del. McDonough should show more respect for the work our police officers do with the community every day to make Baltimore safer.”
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Governor O’Malley, the former mayor of Baltimore, told the
Sun
he did not know how McDonough could be unaware that “Baltimore had cut its crime rate more than any American city of comparable size.”
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The easiest way to cut the crime rate to zero is to “remove all the police and stop taking reports,” McDonough said.

And remember from
chapter 7
, former Black Panther leader-turned congressman, Bobby Rush, said this type of crime has been going on for as long as he can remember and that it’s just that it only makes the news when it happens in the nicer neighborhoods.

The Second City Cop is a blog for and by Chicago police officers. After a recent violent weekend featuring three attacks of black mobs in the 018 beat, the downtown area, the blog reported:

And for the record, the “three” “muggings” that are being “investigated?” Add a zero to that for incidents occurring last night in 018.

Crime is down and if no one reports it or the media doesn’t get a hold of it? It never happened.
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Crime is down. But the number of unreported crimes is up. Go figure.

Five Black Leaders Speak Out

A
fter doing more than one hundred talk radio and print and television interviews for this book on the epidemic of racial violence and how the media ignore it, I’ve heard from hundreds of liberals. And they
all
say the same three things in the same breath: 1) It is
not
happening, 2) here is why it
is
happening: racism, and 3) here are the solutions: more programs like Midnight Basketball.

So we thought we would take a look at some of the leading black conservative thinkers and their thoughts on the same topic. And their take on solutions and causes.

Jesse Lee Peterson is a media commentator and syndicated radio talk show host of
The Jesse Lee Peterson Radio Show
. Here is an interview we did in July 2012.

I’ve been saying for years that white Americans need to get over their fear of being called racists.

They need to get over this false guilt about what’s wrong with black people.

Most blacks are suffering not from racism from white folks but from lack of moral character.

Black people have been encouraged to hate whites and to discriminate against them from the so-called civil rights leaders and others. And that is evil.

The evil will get worse from generation to generation if you don’t deal with it.

White Americans do not understand what they are doing about allowing this to happen. Generation to generation of black people had been trained or encouraged to hate white folks, and these kids are growing up without good parents in their homes and they’re angry about that.

And they are taking it out on white folks because they had been told that it is white racism that is holding them back and it is absolutely not true.

But it is out of control.

In my speeches that I give around the country, I encourage white people to get over that fear.

When I asked white people if they are afraid of being called racist when it come to dealing with black people, most of the people in the audience raise their hands, and say ‘yes, they are afraid.’

They gotta get past that. Otherwise we are headed for something in this country that we do not want to deal with between the races.
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James Harris is a radio talk show host out of Tucson. In this interview on WTMJ in Milwaukee, he told a television audience his views of the racial violence problem in America in response to a black mob that looted a convenience store then beat up ten to fifteen white people at a nearby Fourth of July party.

This was not a color-blind crime. We have this epidemic of black teenage mob violence happening all over the country.

It is from a perfect storm of entitlements, political correctness, and white guilt where people are afraid to identify who are doing the crimes and why they are doing it.

(The Mayor and Police Chief) were more worried about being accused of racial profiling than the fact that black mobs were roaming down the streets hurting people.

This was a PC response because it was black mob violence. You guys (fellow panelists) are in denial. … We have a real problem. A real sickness in the (black) community, that until we address it, it will continue to explode.

Milwaukee and other major cities in this country are facing a crisis of mob violence this summer. And if the powers that be refuse to identify the problem, how can they expect to combat it?
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Abdul Hakim-Shabazz was the host of “Abdul in the Mornings” and is a contributor to the
Indiana Barrister
. There is at least one voice in Indianapolis that is unafraid. Attorney Hakim-Shabazz is out of patience with people who have too much patience for black pathology:

It’s time for some tough love in this town. There is a criminal element in this town that consists primarily of young black men. The recent attacks on the Monon; the perpetrators were young black men. The “Pop It Off Boys” gang; young black men. The most high ridden crime areas of the city, who are the bad guys? Say it with me, they are usually young black men.

This may be painful, but the truth hurts… There is also something even more wrong when people will read this column and get mad at me and call me a “sellout” or an “Uncle Tom” because I was the guy who was brave enough to tell truth.

Indianapolis, you have a problem. Your problem is young, black men who are out of control. It’s time to step up and start
making examples out of people. Decent citizens black and white should not have to live in fear of urban terrorists. The elderly man who marched for civil rights in the 1950s and 60s should not have to live in fear because some Robin Hoodlum doesn’t know how to honor the social contract. Young people who are trying to do the right thing, shouldn’t have to live in fear because a bunch of cast extras from a Spike Lee film don’t know how to behave. And I shouldn’t have to write blog posts like this because young black men act like social predators and terrorize the very neighborhoods they live in.
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Taleeb Starkes is the cowriter and co-executive producer of the documentary “Mothers of No Tomorrow,” a hard-hitting documentary about violence in America from the vantage point of mothers.

During a 2009 speech commemorating Black History month, U.S Attorney General Eric Holder took America to task for its inability “to have frank conversations about the racial matters that continue to divide us.”

He professed, “in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards. We, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about race.”

While other African-Americans applauded Attorney General Holder’s interpretation of national affairs, I found it extremely hypocritical to expect a national, interracial dialogue when we (African-Americans) refuse to dialogue or even acknowledge the destructive subculture residing within our race!

Understandably, other races typically avoid calls such as yours for honest, interracial discourse because of the assured accusations of racism. Statistics, facts, evidence witness testimony will all be dismissed as “racist,” regardless of intent. As a result, no true dialogue can commence, especially when
not-so-flattering facts (a.k.a., the truth) cannot be included into the discussion.

Pertinent truths such as the disproportionate amounts of crime, murder and societal dysfunctional that is consistently perpetrated by an African-American subculture remains off-limits.

Consequently, Mr. Holder, instead of dialogues, the African-American community seems to prefer monologues; that way, the conversation is one-dimensional and heavily regulated. In other words, we bury our garbage (the subculture) in our backyard and get upset when others complain about the smell.

Instead of using the BLACK history month platform to chastise America, Attorney General Holder should have emphasized the cleaning of our backyard. Three years and thousands of bodies later, the highest cop in the country remains committed to the code of silence that is doing so much damage to the true story of what is happening in our neighborhoods.

Mychal Massie is the former National Chairman of the
conservative
think tank, Project 21-The National Leadership Network of Black Conservatives, a syndicated op-ed columnist, and author of the hard-hitting new site The Daily Rant.

The solution is simple, but unpopular. We must stop explaining the problem away vis-à-vis blaming it on external sociologic problems. Every town, city, neighborhood, and corner bar knows who the trouble makers are. It is up to them to police themselves by immediately identifying the source to the police department. It is not white people going into those neighborhoods shooting, looting, raping, establishing drug cartels and gangs; it is those who live within those neighborhoods. It is up to those residing within same to make it known those elements are not welcome.

Without expanding further, it is necessary for the people living in these areas to understand they cannot condemn law enforcement, whites, and those perceived to be better off on a daily basis and not have it define a person’s psyche. As I said, I’m not taking time to expand on these points, but they are ground zero for any attempt to change the culture of violence.

There are lots of people speaking out, demanding we stop ignoring the culture of pathology and lawlessness that has done so much damage to so many people. More and more people are listening.

Swing and a Miss!

W
riting about race brings out the best in some, the worst in others, and for the folks at
Salon Magazine
, it brings out the stupid. This of course is the outfit that issued the now infamous plea: “Let’s hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American.”
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Salon
’s take down of an earlier edition of
White Girl Bleed a Lot
was not quite as breathtaking as its Boston remarks, but close. Ready?