The Washington Post, June 19, 2023
I recently traveled to the Netherlands with family. One evening, after an exhilarating performance at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, we decided to walk to our hotel. It was a 30- to 40-minute walk, but the weather was pleasant. At times, our path took us near parks that weren’t very well-lit. It was late on a weeknight, so some streets were rather deserted. Yet I never once felt nervous, defensively clutched my purse or wanted to reroute us to main thoroughfares. Now, I also feel safe walking in most parts of New York City. But that’s largely because police are everywhere. Visible on the street, in cars, on horseback.
In the Netherlands, there are roughly 2.6 guns for every 100 people; there are more than 120 guns per 100 people in the United States...
The cost of the U.S. criminal justice system is notoriously high. The conservative American Action Forum reported in 2020, “The United States spends nearly $300 billion annually to police communities and incarcerate 2.2 million people.” That’s just the tip of the iceberg. “The societal costs of incarceration — lost earnings, adverse health effects, and the damage to the families of the incarcerated — are estimated at up to three times the direct costs, bringing the total burden of our criminal justice system to $1.2 trillion.” Moreover, a massive body of data confirms that disproportionate numbers of Black people are arrested, incarcerated and killed by police.
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Jennifer Rubin misses the main reason the United States has a high crime rate: the United States' population has a high percentage of blacks and Hispanics. Countries where nearly everyone is white or Oriental have low crime rates regardless of gun control laws. Countries where dominated by Negroes or Hispanics have high crime rates, regardless of gun control laws.
worldpopulationreview.com
I do not like guns and I do not own one. Nevertheless, many whites in the United States own guns because they doubt the ability of the police to protect them from Negro and Hispanic criminals.
I recently traveled to the Netherlands with family. One evening, after an exhilarating performance at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, we decided to walk to our hotel. It was a 30- to 40-minute walk, but the weather was pleasant. At times, our path took us near parks that weren’t very well-lit. It was late on a weeknight, so some streets were rather deserted. Yet I never once felt nervous, defensively clutched my purse or wanted to reroute us to main thoroughfares. Now, I also feel safe walking in most parts of New York City. But that’s largely because police are everywhere. Visible on the street, in cars, on horseback.
In the Netherlands, there are roughly 2.6 guns for every 100 people; there are more than 120 guns per 100 people in the United States...
The cost of the U.S. criminal justice system is notoriously high. The conservative American Action Forum reported in 2020, “The United States spends nearly $300 billion annually to police communities and incarcerate 2.2 million people.” That’s just the tip of the iceberg. “The societal costs of incarceration — lost earnings, adverse health effects, and the damage to the families of the incarcerated — are estimated at up to three times the direct costs, bringing the total burden of our criminal justice system to $1.2 trillion.” Moreover, a massive body of data confirms that disproportionate numbers of Black people are arrested, incarcerated and killed by police.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...r&wpisrc=nl_opinions&utm_campaign=wp_opinions
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Jennifer Rubin misses the main reason the United States has a high crime rate: the United States' population has a high percentage of blacks and Hispanics. Countries where nearly everyone is white or Oriental have low crime rates regardless of gun control laws. Countries where dominated by Negroes or Hispanics have high crime rates, regardless of gun control laws.
Murder Rate by Country 2025
I do not like guns and I do not own one. Nevertheless, many whites in the United States own guns because they doubt the ability of the police to protect them from Negro and Hispanic criminals.
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