Unpopular opinion are personal opinions I uphold that go against mainstream media. Opinions and criticism are welcomed.
In 1955, James Dean starred in a movie titled “rebel without a cause” a movie saw Teenager Natalie Wood receive her first of three academy awards. A great movie with a stupid title as Jim Stark had plenty of causes to rebel about, wish I can say the same about the entirety of Antifa and Black lives matter. The latter being a movement I firmly believed in for like a month before seeing passed that.
Now I’m not paid by word count or at all. So this is going to be as short as possible.
The chain of BLM-encouraged Antifa actions need to stop, riots, threats, looting, and property destruction is something a criminal group does, not justice advocates. Perfect example is the Baltimore riots, caused by the death of Freddie Gray (2-3 days before medical examiners ruled it as homicide). Riots broke out causing 113 police officers injured, 2 shot, 1 in critical condition.
Facts and figures of the aftermath.
1- 250-400 people arrested
2- 290-350 businesses damaged
3- 150 vehicle fires
4- 60 structure fires
5- 27 drugstore looting
Under no brainwashing media you could easily determine the bad guys in that scenario, the idea that we need to meet your level of violence with a higher level of justification is pure stupidity. It was after that facts and numbers started coming out pointing out the reality exposing the false message of BLM and Antifa asking the question who are they protesting what is their uprising against? Against black police chief? Against mostly minority police? Against black mayor ? Against black president (at the time)? Against black attorney general? Against a city council with 9 out of 15 are black and all democrats? What has the uprising been trying to achieve ? Honestly, what has been the point ? It’s not useful to riot, it’s not useful to destroy properties , it’s not useful to break things, and it’s not useful to throw rocks at people. Just act like a human. Again the idea that the more outraged you are the more justified you must be is absolutely stupid. The system isn’t racist. The “uprising” changed nothing in the result of the medical examiner, changed nothing when it comes to what the verdict would have been.
As BLM felt exposed they went with the inequity, which is another false narrative. So how are black people statistical disparity not a racial disparity but something else? Well the answer is something called evidence of racism when aren’t any, It’s probably not racism. When it can be found,It probably is racism.
Also given this disparity, how can it be argued that racism isn’t a driving factor of income inequality? Well, it has nothing to do with races and everything to do with culture. I know that’s the old gag but explain to me how come black kids aren’t graduating high school at such high numbers! Explain to me how black kids are shooting each other at rates significantly higher than whites! Explain to me how 13% of the population is in charge of 50% of the murders! Explain to me how the numbers of black kids in prison (not from innocent reasons) is proportionally higher than in white kids! If it’s not about culture then explain how the rates of single motherhood went from 20% to 70% in the same time the civil right movement was hitting such a stride! Is America now more racist than it was in 1960? and if it is please explain to me how that happened?
Now what’s my solution to the high numbers of crimes , it’s the simple, DO NOT COMMIT CRIMES, but that’s on a personal level, on a state level then the solution is simple increase policing. Turned out that the best to stop crimes is more people who fight it and arrest those who’d do it.
The broken window theory (not to be mistaken with the broken window fallacy by Frederic Bastiat) is an academic theory proposed by James O. Wilson and George Kelling in 1982, the metaphoric broken window resembles disorder in a neighborhood linking disorder and shortage of civility in a community to subsequent occurrence of serious crimes.
William Bratton (police commissioner of NY city 1994-96 and 2014-16) is among a long list of people who believe that the aggressive order-maintenance practices of the NYPD have been the reason for the dramatic decrease of crimes in the 90’s.
As the 1990 began officers in plainclothes were assigned to catch turnstile jumpers, arrests for misdemeanors, vandalism, resulting in subway crimes of all kind to dramatically decrease, Bratton became NYC police commissioner in 1994, during he initiated stricter policies, cracking down on on panhandling, disorderly behaviour, public drinking, street prostitution, and unsolicited windshield washing or other such attempts to obtain cash from drivers stopped in traffic, up till Bratton resigned 2 years later felonies rate dropped by 40% and homicide by 50%.
More police would definitely benefit black neighborhoods as it was the lack of police originally what caused the rise, Black people were practically told by white people “take care of yourselves, if you face crimes or danger of a crime, deal with it on your own” and that was the racism part that started all of this as it leads to high tribal level of violence as it would in any society (it certainly has in Iraq and other third world countries), whenever there’s no enforcement mechanism to stop crime, crime seems to spread, crime rates go up, business and job levels go down, leading to a similar situation to what lead to the famous quote about Camden, New Jersey “if the terrorists flew over Camden, they’d think they’ve done their job already”
So enforcing a mechanism to stop crime (police) is the solution, as it would not only save black lives as it has in many areas in New York, the drop of crimes would lead to businesses coming to the areas as the fear of your business getting robbed or destroyed would go away, so lives will be saved and it would lead to economical growth, those two would lead to more people moving and wanting to live in that area, which the left seems to have a problem with that calling it “gentrification” claiming it to be a bad thing, gentrification is actually a good thing, and the argument of “gentrification is throwing people out of their historic homes” is stupid, no one is being thrown out. Also it seems to me that when the quality of living in an area gets better not worse that’s an undeniably good thing. Groups like Antifa and BLM have set this conversation with booby traps all over. Now it seems that if the area gets better that's gentrification if it gets worse that's ghettofication? There has to be something in the middle. You can’t say if things gets better that’s racism. And if they get worse that’s racism as well.
The reason New York City has gotten better is because of increased policing, so increase policing, cultural focus on fathers staying at home and mothers not bearing children out of wedlock and individual commitment not to commit crimes.
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As I said disagreement is welcomed. And I’d like to know your opinions and I’ll gladly like to be proven wrong.