Part 3 of my series on Race, Crime, and Policing By William K. BlackJuly 31, 2016 Bloomington, MN This is my third installment in my series of columns about race, crime, and policing. I chose as my initial example of dangerous blood libels a New York Times contributor’s op ed. I use also a NYT editorial about blood libels involving crime and race that demonstrates the editorial board’s hypocrisy and analytical failures. The New York Times Spreads a Blood Libel Against LEOs and Whites...
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Part 2 of my series on Race, Crime, and Policing By William K. BlackJuly 31, 2016 Bloomington, MN My introductory column in this series laid out the blood libels against police, policing, blacks, and whites that are doing so much harm to America. This second installment provides a brief historical overview necessary to begin the discussion about the blood libels against Black Lives Matter, law enforcement officers (LEOs) and whites as a racial group. I repeat my warning from my...
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By William K. BlackJuly 28, 2016 Kansas City, MO The best way to lose friends and be vilified in America is to talk frankly about race, racism, violent crime, politics, gender, Black Lives Matter (BLM) and prosecuting police officers. I am writing a series of articles on these subjects. In the course of this series I employ my “hats” as criminologist and a professor who teaches economics, law, and regulation plus my spousal hat where I draw on my wife and her co-author’s work on...
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