Black traffic fatalities after the summer of george...
Steve Sailer has a new column out on one of his favorite topics of the past few years - the rise in traffic fatalities among blacks in the post ferguson & post floyd racial reckoning era.
The numbers seem to be pretty stark:
Let’s compare the era of the Floyd Effect—June 2020 to December 2023—to the same 43 months a decade earlier—June 2010 to December 2013—which was before either the Ferguson or Floyd Effect.
Total motor vehicle deaths among non-Hispanic whites went up 9 percent.
That’s bad. Car crash carnage should be falling steadily.
But traffic fatalities among African Americans grew an appalling 78 percent.
That blacks have become much worse drivers over the past decade seems newsworthy to me, but nobody else will touch the story.[/quote]
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[quote]Deaths by homicide grew 17 percent among whites from 2010–2013 to 2020–2023 but 71 percent among blacks, even though blacks started with a radically higher rate of dying violently (usually at the hands of other blacks).
Why the correlation? That’s likely because traffic stops are the most common way the cops discourage both bad driving and carrying illegal handguns.
But the article never mentions the concurrent explosion of black-on-black shootings in the days following George Floyd’s demise. That the War on White Supremacy waged by all nice people drove up both car crashes and murders is presumably one red pill too many for even the bravest New York Times article.
Third, in no other major country did either traffic deaths or murders go up notably in 2020 because, while many foreign elites paid lip service to the racial reckoning, nobody else’s ruling class were so stupid as to shoot their country in the foot by sponsoring an actual cultural revolution.
Fourth, a study by the Automobile Association of America found:
Drivers without valid licenses accounted for almost the entirety of the increase in driver fatal crash involvements in May–December 2020 relative to the corresponding forecast.
While deaths were up less than 1 percent among drivers with valid licenses, they shot up 45 percent among those without.
How come?
Depolicing.
If the cops are not pulling over as many drivers anymore due to George Floyd and the mostly peaceful protests, why not risk driving just because your license is suspended, nobody will insure you, you have several outstanding warrants, you have fake license plates, you’re driving a stolen car, and you need to carry your Glock everywhere in case you run into that guy you’re going to shoot for dissing you on Instagram?
it's a big world of course, & i am not quite 100% willing to say that the increase in traffic deaths (not to mention the increase in black homicide in that same period) is directly an effect from de-policing.
but it certainly has the ring of plausibility to me, & seems like the kind of thing more people should talk about.
perhaps the noble blm efforts to address racist policing has resulted in a pretty high black body count. maybe all those horrible racist police who were disproportionately pulling over black drivers in the name of white supremacy were inadvertently doing those noble black men a favor in keeping them from killing themselves & each other quite so often.
full column here:
https://www.takimag.com/article/the-fast-and-the-curious/ share