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Stuff Black People Don't Like - SBPDL: Q: Why is Iceland Free of Violent Crime? A: Why is New Orleans Replete with Violent Crime?
Q: Why is Iceland Free of Violent Crime? A: Why is New Orleans Replete with Violent Crime?
The simple answer has nothing to do with socialism, universal healthcare, poverty, capitalism, or discrimination (oddly, socialism works in a nation/state with high social capital).
It is simply race.
Four letters that, when combined, reduce most mortals into a state of silence.
But for the simple reason Iceland is so peaceful (no blacks), the converse is true of New Orleans (overwhelmingly a black city).
Dr. Kevin Unter's 2009 book Melding Police and Policy to Dramatically Reduce Crime in the City of New Orleans: A Study of the New Orleans Police Department offers two simple quotes on crime in the city that cut to the heart of the reality described above:
... higher concentrations of blacks, i.e., a larger "at-risk" population would necessarily lead to higher incidences of crime. (p.113)
Because blacks comprise both the highest number of perpetrators and victims, it necessarily follows that the larger the... these results suggest that crime has increased as the percentage of the black population in New Orleans has increased. (p. 137)
The only variable that shows some explanatory power is the percentage of the black population in New Orleans - the models suggest that crime will increase as the percentage of the black population in New Orleans increases. (p. 166)
So, without black people (take the nation of Iceland), there isn't much crime.
Right?
Crime in New Orleans has always been a "black problem", though the images broadcast to the world in early September 2005 of black helplessness in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina are the reality, the microcosm of the 'black problem':
In 1994, the year of the Groves murder, New Orleans attained the unwanted distinction of being "The Murder Capital of America." Between January 1 and December 31, four hundred and twenty-one homicide victims gave the Crescent City the highest per capita murder rate in the nation. Even though the largest percentage of these killings were "black-on-black" murders in the city's housing projects and other "bad neighborhoods," the numbers were scaring off tourists and conventions.
Though the Mother's Day 2013 shooting in New Orleans has largely been dropped down the memory - it's a reminder of why people chose to avoid living in largely black cities or having black neighbors - the incident is something extremely rare in the city.
It's a byproduct of black gang violence, whereas a recent study of murder victims in the city showed that out of 200 victims, only 1 percent had gang affiliations. [CRIME IN NEW ORLEANS: ANALYZING CRIME TRENDS AND NEW ORLEANS’ RESPONSES TO CRIME, p. 12]
Translation: black violence in the city of New Orleans is just an example of black people without much impulse control or future-time orientation cognitive abilities; the inverse is, of course, true of the people of Iceland.
The white people of Iceland.
The reason New Orleans has so much violent crime is simple -- black people; the same reason Iceland had only one homicide in all of 2009 -- no black people.
There was one homicide in Iceland in 2009; conversely, in New Orleans on Mother's Day 2013, 20 people were shot by Akein and Shawn Scott at an event held largely for black people[Mother's Day shooting suspects have ties to 7th Ward gang, police say, NOLA.com, 5-17-13]:
The Mother's Day second-line shooting that left 20 people injured and has drawn international attention to New Orleans' violent crime problem was committed by two brothers with ties to a 7th Ward gang, police said Thursday.
Akein Scott, 19, and Shawn Scott, 24, are accused of raining a hail of bullets on an unsuspecting crowd as a second-line celebration passed Frenchmen and North Villere streets Sunday afternoon. Police said the Scotts are members of the Frenchmen and Derbigny Boys, or the F and D Boys. The area surrounding that intersection is where the gang is known to sell drugs, according to sources familiar with the group.
"Race."
Four letters that, when combined, reduce most mortals into a state of silence.
Quality of life can simply be judged by how violent your black population is (which drives away law-abiding, tax-paying citizens) -- or if your city even has a black population [CRIME IN NEW ORLEANS: ANALYZING CRIME TRENDS AND NEW ORLEANS’ RESPONSES TO CRIME, p. 12]
Yet the concept of "race" - be it the biological or social construct version - does more to tell us about the reality of the world in 2013 (especially the differences between Iceland and New Orleans) than any other explanation touted by... anyone.
"All is race, there is no other truth."
