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May 12, 2021 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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When Common Sense Is a Crime
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Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
You probably missed it because it was minor news, but a few days ago, the New Jersey Attorney General and the prosecutor of Bergen County, New Jersey, launched what they called a"Full Investigation into Possible Criminal Activity" by the Police Department of the Township of Wyckoff,
population 17,000.
The Wyckoff Police Chief, Benjamin Fox.
A named target of the investigation has gone on administrative leave.
Wyckoff doesn't sound like a bad place.
It's 93% white, the median household income is $130,000, and the estimated median house price is $747,000.
Here's one of the 124 houses for sale in Wyckoff.
Asking price: $1.9 million.
Here are a few Wyckoff police officers.
The man on the right in the white shirt is potential criminal Chief Fox.
And here's a picture of a young officer being sworn onto the force in March 2015 while his proud wife holds the Bible.
That's Chief Fox looking on.
And here are some officers about to take part in a run to raise money for the Special Olympics.
The Wyckoff PD was founded in 1922.
And has never before been the target of a criminal investigation.
So what's it been up to?
Well, back in 2014, Chief Fox sent an email message to the entire force of 24 officers.
First, he noted that there had been a lot of shouting nationally about police abuse and racial profiling, and then he wrote the following: Racial or otherwise has its place in law enforcement when used correctly and applied fairly.
Don't ask the police to ignore what we know.
Black gang members from Teaneck commit burglaries in Wyckoff.
That's why we check out suspicious black people in white neighborhoods.
White kids buy heroin in black NYC neighborhoods.
That's why the NYPD stops those white kids.
The police know they are there to buy drugs.
It's insane to think that the police should just dumb down just to be politically correct.
The public wants us to keep them safe, and I am confident that they want us to use our skills and knowledge to attain that goal.
Well, racial profiling is against the law, even though what the law requires is, as Chief Fox points out, insane.
It requires that the police, as he puts it, ignore what we know.
And we know a great deal.
We know, for example, that men commit a lot more crime than women.
We know that young men commit a lot more crime than old men.
The police use this kind of common sense in their work.
It's called sex profiling and age profiling.
Neither, of course, is against the law.
You can sex profile all you want, and we do it all the time.
Three unknown men in your backyard are a greater potential threat.
Everybody knows that.
And sure enough, in Chicago, for example, men are about 13 times more likely than women to be arrested for murder and about 20 times more likely to be arrested for mugging.
Do men yell about this and claim that this proves the police are biased against men?
Do they call for laws to ban sex profiling?
No. Because, as Chief Fox explains, that would be insane.
Or imagine a law that banned age profiling.
Here is a graph of the age distribution of criminals.
The data are from Britain, but we have the same pattern.
As you can see, 17-year-olds, for whom the bar is highest, commit crime at many times the rate of 10-year-olds at the very left or people 60 or over at the very right.
A 17-year-old is over 13 times more likely to commit a crime than someone in his 50s.
Imagine trying to do your job as a policeman and trying to abide by a law that requires you to believe that 70-year-olds are just as likely to be responsible for this mess as 17-year-olds.
It would be insane.
Well, from a strictly statistical point of view, It is equally insane to pretend that white people are just as likely as blacks to rob you or kill you.
In New York City, in 2013, a black was 31 times more likely than a white to be arrested for murder and 14 times more likely to be arrested for robbery.
These numbers are greater than the sex and age differences we saw earlier.
So, the cops are allowed to use common sense when it comes to age or sex, but race?
Oh no no.
The cops are required to live in some kind of fantasy land where blacks are absolutely no different from whites.
The police couldn't do their job if they really thought that way, so they quietly apply common sense.
They just don't say they do.
And that, of course, was the great crime committed by Benjamin Fox of Wyckoff.
He said out loud: What every cop and every sane American knows is true.
By the way, the population of Wyckoff is 0.4% black.
0.4%.
If Chief Fox sees a young black man prowling around this house, the law requires him to think to himself, that must be the teenage son of one of the 0.4%.
I better just move on.
Even Jesse Jackson knows better.
Do you remember this quote?
There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery, then look around and see someone white and feel relieved.
Jesse feels relieved because he knows black people are a lot more dangerous than white people.
But the law says the police must pretend that's not so.
And racial profiling works both ways.
Remember what Chief Fox said about white guys buying drugs.
If Chadwick and Aldrich go strolling through this neighborhood, the police are going to notice.
But since the Chief's message about racial profiling went to the entire department back in 2014, the entire department is going to be investigated.
Everyone in it could be guilty.
Just look at these three.
Don't they look like vicious criminals?
I'm waiting for U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch to launch a full federal investigation of the Wyckoff PD.
Why not?
They already have a signed confession from the chief himself.
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