“I am not a prosecutor, much less an attorney, but as these crimes are mostly centered in urban areas; and urban areas are overwhelmingly Democrat controlled; and that these prosecutors are therefore elected Democrats; and Democrats rely on selected minorities to elect them; ergo, the prosecutors must keep their constituents from voting them out of office by “don’t make the black kids angry” with aggressive policies toward crimes. Coddling of criminals is necessary.[/quote]

I had not considered that! And it is frightening!

Any others with similar opinions?

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Originally posted by tleddy:

I was attempting to figure out the true murder rate by black males...

Several years ago an available FBI stat was that a black male in USA was 1400% more likely to commit a murder than a while male. But stats like this are hard to locate these days.

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Originally posted by tleddy:
Any others with similar opinions?

To me it’s obvious, and just one of many things—policies and practices—that have led to the present state of the Nation. It’s not as obviously vote buying as the effort by Biden to “forgive” education loan debt, but that’s what it is: “Vote for me and I’ll treat you and yours right, no matter how wrong it is.”

But it’s not just the “minority” populations that are keeping prosecutors and others like that in office. There was an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal about “suicidal empathy,” or the tendency of a large part of the populace, and often a majority, to believe that anyone who claims to be a victim of some injustice should not be held accountable for his actions or at least should be given preferential treatment at the expense of everyone else.

We occasionally see calls to change how Muslims think and view non-Muslims, as if religious tenets that were drilled into them since childhood can be changed by saying, “That’s not right.” Many political beliefs are equivalent in nature because they are based on faith, not knowledge and reason, and there is just as little chance of changing them.

Philly Cop Killer Admits He Targeted Officers Because They Were WHITE

https://modernity.news/2026/10...use-they-were-white/

A Philadelphia city employee with a long rap sheet ambushed police responding to a call, killed one officer and critically wounded another, then told investigators he did it because they were white.

Eric Lewis, 35, a trades helper for the Philadelphia Water Department, walked up behind Officers Shane Seiber and his partner on a West Philadelphia porch early Saturday morning, demanded to know why they were there, and opened fire.

Seiber, a 40-year-old Air Force veteran and father of two, was shot three times and died hours later. His partner, a 33-year-old father of five, was hit 12 times and remains hospitalized. Lewis then fired at nine more officers before hiding in a tree, where SWAT took him into custody. He faces 76 charges including murder and is held without bail.

According to the arrest report obtained by the Philadelphia Inquirer, Lewis stated he shot the officers because they were white. He told a Black female officer at the hospital, “if it was you that responded we would have just had a conversation.”

The report further noted he said, “if the cops were black he would not have shot them,” made racist remarks to white officers, and claimed they “automatically grabbed me” because of their race.

He also said, “I did what I did because they did what they did,” and insisted, “They had guns, so I had every right to defend myself.”

Philadelphia Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel said of Seiber, “He fought valiantly, but he lost his life today.” District Attorney Larry Krasner called the attack a “brutal, senseless, horrific killing.”

Seiber, a 10-year veteran, leaves behind a wife, a 7-year-old son, and a 3-year-old daughter. He had served in the Air Force before joining the force.

Lewis’s criminal history stretches back more than a decade. In 2012 he was convicted of theft and receiving stolen property and sentenced to two years’ probation. In 2013 he faced charges including carrying firearms in public and simple assault; he received up to five years’ probation. In 2018 he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct involving fighting and again received probation. Krasner noted Lewis had no felony convictions that barred him from possessing a firearm. He has worked for the city since 2024.

This is not an isolated failure. Just days earlier in Pittsburgh, District Judge Dan Butler released 19-year-old Delvin Dobbins on a non-monetary bond the same day he was arrested for stabbing a man so severely that officers found the victim’s intestines protruding.

Eight days later Dobbins was the prime suspect in another stabbing at an East Liberty bus station and has since been charged with attempted homicide.

Pittsburgh Police Chief Jason Lando reacted with disbelief: “How can that be? He just stabbed someone in the stomach a week ago. Surely he would still be in jail.”

Lando added that a non-monetary bond means “you basically promise that you’re just going to show up to court. You don’t put up any money.”

Sources told WPXI that Butler should not have granted the release. Dobbins already had a history that included an earlier burglary arrest (released because juvenile detention space was unavailable) followed by a charge of shooting a convenience store clerk.

In so many of these cases, the system prioritizes release over public safety. Lewis accumulated probation after probation while remaining free to obtain guns and, ultimately, ambush officers. Dobbins walked out after a near-fatal stabbing and struck again within days.

Krasner’s office has long favored progressive charging and bail policies; Allegheny County’s district judges operate under similar soft-on-crime pressures that treat non-monetary promises as sufficient for violent offenders.

Police in both cities are left responding to calls only to confront people who should never have been on the street. Officers are expected to risk their lives while the courts treat prior violence as a paperwork issue.

When the shooter then openly cites race as the reason, the disparity in how such motives are covered becomes impossible to ignore.

Reverse the races and the networks would treat it as a national emergency. Here the admission sits in a police report while the broader pattern of releases continues.

Communities pay the price in dead officers, wounded fathers, and victims left bleeding on sidewalks. The judges and prosecutors who sign the release orders keep treating it as routine. Until that stops, more cops and more civilians will keep paying for it.