Social Justice Getting People Killed?

In “The Pursuit of ‘Social Justice’ Is Getting People Killed,” the WSJ’s Riley argues “chaos follows whenever far-left attitudes on crime & punishment are allowed to take hold”, i.e., assuming one can keep track of their blarney.

Unfortunately, Riley concludes, “the damage is mounting … and no one is harmed more than the people in whose name the policies are promoted.” Could it be the real “beneficiaries” of woke “Social Justice” are the hopelessly “unjust perpetrators”? Riley cites, for instance, how “Sunday’s Philadelphia Inquirer reported on its front page that the City Council president wants ‘to revisit stop-and-frisk,” a police tactic that involves officers’ stopping, questioning & sometimes searching pedestrians” acting strange. For decades, police departments around the country have used stop & frisk to remove illegal guns from the street & reduce crime rates. But social-justice activists – who ironically support gun control – have decried the practice because blacks & Hispanics are stopped more often than others…”

As Riley reminds those critics who too often “ignore” the real VICTIMS, i.e., those mugged, murdered or raped in their own neighborhoods, the statistical imbalance in stops is more likely a “reflection of higher violent crime rates among blacks & Hispanics” rather than “racial bias.” He elaborates thusly: “Men are also stopped more often than women. Is that evidence of sexism? In big cities such as Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis & Baltimore, violent crime is highly concentrated, not only among certain groups but also geographically. [Per a recent NY Times story] “A small sliver of blocks – just 4% in Chicago, for example – can account for a majority of shootings …”

Davd Soul