The flap over incarceration:
Are we forgetting victims of crimes?© 2016
Few communities in the United States are as bedeviled by crime as African American communities. And yet, our communities routinely send out mixed messages on crime.
Snitching
Many of us may see a crime take place, or we may have information about a crime that took place. But we won’t speak up, even anonymously. As a result, criminals go unpunished, and they continue to victimize the community. Criminals have been so successful with their brand of propaganda, they’ve turned doing the right thing an urban sin they call snitching. But if we continue do what criminals want us to do, and not snitch, our communities will continue to safe zones for crime and criminals.
Failure to work with the police
When criminals do what criminals do and when they’re apprehended by the police, too often, if the police didn’t treat them with kid gloves, we treat the criminals like heroes and the police like criminals. This is a terrible trend. The truth is, we can’t fight crime and failed to work with the police and expect to have safe communities. We have to form a partnership with the police, and we cannot treat the police like the enemy. We deceiving ourselves if we think otherwise.
Sympathizing with criminals
Many African Americans are outraged over the number of Blacks who are incarcerated. But their outrage is misguided. The majority of the Blacks who are incarcerated aren’t there because they’re freedom fighters. Not at all. They’re there, in 90 percent of the cases, because they’ve committed serious crimes against other Blacks: assaults, rapes, murder, burglaries, etc. Many of these violent criminals are released early and they return to the community where they often commit more murders and crimes. If we’re going to sympathize with someone, shouldn’t it be with their victims?
We cannot continue to send our mixed messages about crime, and cannot assume that every black person apprehended by the police is a victim. Read what a victim of a black criminal had to say about her ordeal and the sympathy the community showed for her carjacker:
"These coalition people are pissing me off,” she said. “Nobody cares that he terrorized two kids. They are trying to make this a Trayvon Martin or Mike (Brown) case ... I'm tired of people making this a racial thing, and they're not looking at what he did to my family."
When she heard the carjacking suspect had called out to Jesus when he was apprehended, she said, “He's calling on Jesus? Where was Jesus when he pulled his gun on us? He put a gun in my face and said, 'I'm robbing you bitch.'”
Are we forgetting victims of crimes?© 2016
Few communities in the United States are as bedeviled by crime as African American communities. And yet, our communities routinely send out mixed messages on crime.
Snitching
Many of us may see a crime take place, or we may have information about a crime that took place. But we won’t speak up, even anonymously. As a result, criminals go unpunished, and they continue to victimize the community. Criminals have been so successful with their brand of propaganda, they’ve turned doing the right thing an urban sin they call snitching. But if we continue do what criminals want us to do, and not snitch, our communities will continue to safe zones for crime and criminals.
Failure to work with the police
When criminals do what criminals do and when they’re apprehended by the police, too often, if the police didn’t treat them with kid gloves, we treat the criminals like heroes and the police like criminals. This is a terrible trend. The truth is, we can’t fight crime and failed to work with the police and expect to have safe communities. We have to form a partnership with the police, and we cannot treat the police like the enemy. We deceiving ourselves if we think otherwise.
Sympathizing with criminals
Many African Americans are outraged over the number of Blacks who are incarcerated. But their outrage is misguided. The majority of the Blacks who are incarcerated aren’t there because they’re freedom fighters. Not at all. They’re there, in 90 percent of the cases, because they’ve committed serious crimes against other Blacks: assaults, rapes, murder, burglaries, etc. Many of these violent criminals are released early and they return to the community where they often commit more murders and crimes. If we’re going to sympathize with someone, shouldn’t it be with their victims?
We cannot continue to send our mixed messages about crime, and cannot assume that every black person apprehended by the police is a victim. Read what a victim of a black criminal had to say about her ordeal and the sympathy the community showed for her carjacker:
"These coalition people are pissing me off,” she said. “Nobody cares that he terrorized two kids. They are trying to make this a Trayvon Martin or Mike (Brown) case ... I'm tired of people making this a racial thing, and they're not looking at what he did to my family."
When she heard the carjacking suspect had called out to Jesus when he was apprehended, she said, “He's calling on Jesus? Where was Jesus when he pulled his gun on us? He put a gun in my face and said, 'I'm robbing you bitch.'”