TPS Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 Well, really about the opening analogy... http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/09-0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCinBuffalo Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 (edited) Holy Fox Butterfield! This guy correctly analyzes that there is a single tactic, police involvement, being over-used. But the rest of his "analysis" is hilariously idiotic. My question: if there is only a hammer left, who is responsible for taking all the other tools/tactics away? My other question: who creates the need for the hammer? Or, who is responsible for creating the conditions where the ONLY tool left that has a chance of working is police involvement? Or who is repsonsible for bad policy/decisions made at Step 1, right on through to Step 20, leaving the only choice at 20 = police involvement? He is shocked and amazed, throughout the ENTIRE article, to find a whole bunch of what he thinks are causes, that are actually: effects. Yeah, it's "amazing" that the % of black males that get arrested in this country compared to white males...is directly proportional...to the % of crimes committed by black males, compared to whites. The word "propensity" comes to mind. This is why statistics class should be mandatory for all, and doubly so for: "journalists". Not understanding that simple, causal relationship, is how Fox Butterfield...became: Fox Butterfield. He couldn't put this 2 and 2 together = crime is down-->more black men are in jail. Um, Fox? Fact: Black men commit more crime, by a lot. More of them being in jail...must mean? Crime will go down. This guy is repeating Butterfield's mistake. History only repeats itself under duress, or, because there are idiots involved. Edited December 12, 2013 by OCinBuffalo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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