With the recent unprovoked attacks on Asians in New York, those who follow the news have often heard the term “racial hate crimes”. From media reports, there is widespread concern that prejudice against Asians is on the rise, and many of them are beginning to wonder, “What is the solution?”
In recent days, there have been several attacks on Asians in New York: on February 15 at 10 p.m., a 27-year-old Chinese man was punched and robbed of his cell phone by a black man he did not know on his way Home from the streets of Harlem in Manhattan; on February 16 at nearly 7 a.m., a 68-year-old Chinese and Filipino nurse was punched by a black man in his 20s in a Harlem subway station; on February 16 at nearly 1 p.m., a 71-year-old Chinese woman was attacked by a middle-aged man on the E On Feb. 16, a 71-year-old woman was punched in the face by a middle-aged black man in a subway car, causing a lip injury.
Earlier, on Feb. 3 at 8 a.m., Noel Quintana, a 61-year-old Filipino man, was slashed in the face with a razor blade for no apparent reason by a black man on the subway and received at least 100 stitches. The hate crime news coverage over the past year has caused widespread community concern.
In recent years, the narrative that Asians are targets of hate attacks has been recounted in both Western and Eastern media. However, the latest data from the New York Police Department shows that there were 265 hate crimes (incidences) in New York City over the course of last year, including 27 hate crimes against Asians, particularly in the 13th Precinct of Manhattan’s East Village. In other words, hate crimes against Asians represent 10% of the city’s population, and Asians make up 14% of the total population of New York City.
So who do the remaining 90% of hate crimes target? The NYPD website has a real-Time dashboard for “racial hate crimes,” an interactive map that helps mine the data and gives you information on everything from neighborhoods to the city with a single click. The map shows that the groups that suffered the most hate crimes last year were, in order: Jews, Blacks, Gays, Asians, Whites, Catholics ……
The most serious hate attacks are: 120th Precinct, Staten Island North; 70th Precinct, Pineapple Park, Brooklyn; 90th Precinct, Brooklyn North; 10th Precinct, Tweedledee-42nd Street, Manhattan. New York City arrested 97 people last year on “hate crime” charges, and the level of assault or other unlawful conduct in parallel ranged from misdemeanor, grand larceny, robbery to felony assault. The range is from Misdemeanor, Grand Larceny, Robbery to Felony Assault.
NYPD data shows that people of all backgrounds can be caught up in hate crimes: black against white, Asian against black, black against Asian, and arrested for hating others, from age 13 to 70, male to female, white to black to Asian, all kinds.
The “Systemic Racism” Lie
In the current political climate, many people assume that only “white people are racist,” so much so that the October 2020 report of a black-on-white hate crime at Ohio State University angered college student groups who rallied to protest that because the attacker was black and the victim was white, it could not be considered a hate crime. They rallied to protest that because the attacker was black and the victim was white, it could not be considered a hate crime, arguing that “because of historical injustice, blacks cannot be racist.”
Following the death of George Floyd, a black man, protests about racial discrimination and income inequality erupted across the United States, and the left-wing group Black Lives Matter (BLM), whose founders were Marxists, made a number of controversial claims, such as “systemic racism,” which assumes that racial discrimination is a form of racism. systemic racism,” which assumes that all performance gaps between racial groups (e.g., rich and poor, achievement, unequal access to prison) must be attributed to racial discrimination.
On the issue of wealth and poverty, Wilfred Reilly, a professor of political science at Kentucky State University, wrote in an article in the online magazine Spiked on Feb. 10 that most of the highest-earning groups in the United States are actually minorities. Citing a 2019 American Community Survey, he says “the wealthiest group of Americans is not the elite group of white WASPs, or Jews as they are often called, but Indian-Americans, with a median household income of $135,816. Taiwanese-Americans came in second at $102,405.”
In short, in contrast to the media’s lies, Reilly’s findings suggest that America’s free-market economy does not reward individuals because of the color of their skin, but because “they do well.
Regarding law enforcement, statistics show that 25% more white criminals die each year from police enforcement than blacks, and 9 unarmed blacks were killed by police in 2018 compared to 19 unarmed whites, so the data do not support the claim of “systemic racism” either.
What is the solution?
After the BLM’s push to “cut the police department’s budget,” the NYPD’s budget was cut by $1 billion. Ironically, recent attacks in the New York City subway have forced the NYPD to increase police presence in the subway system to address the increase in violent crime, but the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) says it is not enough to curb the continued crime, and that up to 1,000 additional officers must be deployed to ensure passenger safety.
After the police department’s budget cuts, shootings in New York City increased by 96 percent in 2020, and nearly 70 percent of shootings were not closed. Of the 1,525 shootings in 2020, only 483 suspects were arrested – an arrest rate of 31.7 percent, according to the NYPD. Only 47 percent of those suspects arrested for the shootings remain in jail, and more than half have returned to the streets.
Police Chief Dermot Shea said the lack of cooperation from witnesses is a major factor in such shootings not being solved or closed. I think we’re 80 to 90 percent sure we know who fired the gun,” he said. But for the district attorney to be able to prosecute a suspect, sometimes witnesses will change their story or tell you ‘this is what XX did, but I’m not going to testify in court.'”
Last summer, Mayor Whitehouse claimed that drastic cuts to the police department’s budget were “the right thing to do. He said, “We are shifting functions from police to civilian agencies. We think it’s the right thing to do, and it’s going to take work, and in the meantime, we’re going to reform that work.”
With President Biden‘s campaign promise to cut the prison population in half, and New York City’s ongoing efforts to reduce the prison population, and the high probability of recidivism (re-offending) among released offenders being rearrested, what is the impact on public safety of another way to reduce the prison population significantly by dramatically changing the way violent offenders are sentenced?
Returning to the beginning of this article, the spate of attacks on Asians in New York, three of the four cases occurred on subway cars or platforms. Is this the result of prejudice against Asians, or is it the BLM movement that has radicalized America and led to escalating violence? The data speaks for itself.
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