Why is it that black on white crime is rarely reported?

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The media likes to focus on Michael brown and trayvon martin but totally ignores the horrible murders of channon christian and christopher newsom for example (a young white couple brutally murdered and tortured by blacks). Black on white crime has dramatically increased yet the media refuses to report it and makes it seem like it's the other way around. I'm appalled by this. All it's doing is enabling violence towards caucasions.

Last edited by Coldheart on 17 Sep 2014, 1:51 am, edited 1 time in total.

In Ontario all crime is reported here, no matter what skin color someone is.

I'm sensing something behind this for some reason though, so I'm not going to make any more comments.

Oh please, I'm not racist. I have no misgivings about black people and think they're fine. There are however quite the growing legion of black racist criminals that are deliberately targeting whites. They were literally raised to think white people are the cause if all their problems so they attack the innocent out of revenge. This should not be condoned.

Ever been to detroit? A white canadian man from Ontario was attacked there not too long ago while attending a hockey game. He said it was because of his race and the neighborhood he wandered into, so...

Racism doesn't have one skin color.

A similar problem we have down my way is minorities targeting different minorities. It's a problem in schools. Immigrants from one nationality will attack immigrants from another nationality. They tried having some program in school to teach the students not to be racist but it focused entirely on white on ethnic racism so the immigrants think they're doing nothing wrong in attacking other immigrants. As the OP suggested it goes under reported because they police don't want statistics saying they arrested a disproportionate number of minorities.

Source?



I don't think anyone is condoning anything of the sort you're thinking of, they're just not sensationalizing certain crimes that you seem to think ought to be. Personally, I'd rather see the racial angle played down generally unless it really is a key component of the story, as too often it's merely inflammatory and leads to people jumping to conclusions, as was so clearly demonstrated with the Martin/Zimmerman incident somewhat recently.

As to why the media chooses to play up the racial angle in some cases but not others, I'd put that down to optics and historical precedent, to say nothing of the belief amongst certain members and consumers of the media that white vs black racism is systemic, while black vs white racism is incidental, and therefore less bad.

Here are the perpetrators in the Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom case:

- LeMaricus Davidson (Sentenced to death)
- Letalvis Cobbins (Sentenced to life without parole)
- Eric Thomas (Sentenced to 123 years to life)
- Vanessa Coleman (Sentenced to 35 years)
- Eric Boyd (Sentenced to 18 years)

Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of ... ion_status
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of ... _of_racism

So, what we have is a rape and murder case resulting in a death sentence and 2 life sentences for the main perpetrators, and 35 and 18 years respectively for being a facilitator and accessory after the fact.

... So, exactly what is your point?


Black on white crime has not drastically increased. Crime in the US - and especially violent crime - has been declining across the board.

From 1992, violent crime in the US has almost been cut in half, while property crime has declined by about 40 percent.
Source:
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/cr ... es/table-1

Here is another illustration (homicides and violent crime):


Sources:
http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cv12.pdf (Table 7, page 7 - table truncated for brevity. See link for full version)
http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/htus8008.pdf (Figures 17-19, pages 11 & 13)

The interesting part is of course Figure 19, which - at first glance - paints an almost static picture of race and crime in the US. However, this is only because it displays the relative offending/victimization rates, and not - unlike Figure 17 and 18 - the actual rates.

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(You probably mean why it's not made such a big deal in the media and by people.)

Because it doesn't serve an agenda.

Peaches and pears.
Those incidents were not just "white on black" they were also "police on civilian".

Micheal Brown was killed by law enforcement officers, and Martin by a civilian acting in a law enforcement capacity.

In both cases the white perps got away with it, and were not even indicted without a public outcry first to get the police to protect civilians FROM the police.

The Black perps in the case you cite were not acting as representatives of the state, and second they all got punished for it. They were just common civilian criminals. And got punished without the public raising a stink about it first. It was just routine justice. So it wasnt newsworthy.

First-find a case of Black cops killing a White civilian- and THEN try to argue your case.

Amen, bro' plastic!

First of all, prove it. Apart from a few sensational cases hyped by Fox news, I doubt your premise.

Secondly, white racism against blacks is a much bigger issue, it's been going on for centuries.

I'm pretty sure that happens often.

And I'm pretty sure the white person had it coming.

In the Detroit area, we see black people on tv for killing other black people, and for killing white people.

The murdered white French painter killed by three black gang members was on local tv quite a bit lately
http://www.freep.com/article/20140903/N ... oit-murder

Often we see tv stories about white people found dead in Detroit because they went looking to buy drugs.

There are so many senseless crimes that it makes me sick.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U-Z1fZ9F3s[/youtube]

Absolutely disgusting. That poor young man.

Who in their tight mind would move to detroit though? It's derelict and 90% a criminal hotbed.

Lol yeah I agree.