Anthony commented on ‘I’m Confused about Race and Violence’ Sep-30-2016 3:09 PM UTC
James Answers
As stated in the article, this information is all obtained by my own experience or from people I interview or casually speak to. This is an admittedly haphazard process, but is at least honest and more importantly, puts violence in actual perspective, instead of using the bogus FBI protocol of acts per 100,000 people. For instance, it is far more important that you are white and outside on foot at night in a black area than that 200 out of 100,000 people in your area reported being robbed at gunpoint last year and that these reports were not down graded to simple assault, lost altogether, or, in the case of a successful defense, listed as a mutual combat and thrown out.
These numbers are only from first person and eye-witness reports, as the identity of attackers and victims is obscured in press coverage and the police stats are intentionally juked, therefore I cannot use news reports for sources.
These numbers are skewed toward a white readership, as, unlike my original survey, I now have access to less black victims than white victims, as I no longer work on a black crew and the young blacks I take the bus with and who work in other departments at my job, refuse to speak with me, because I terrify them. Since I do not demonstrate fear of blacks, most blacks regard me as a maniacal Nazi. The Baltimore racial divide is continuing to expand, making it harder and harder for me to befriend blacks with each passing week.
These numbers are small.
I should have at least 500, but wrote this as soon as I hit 100, so as not to stress my math-averse brain.
These numbers do not meet any of the criteria for deriving statistics that could hold up under peer review. But I'm just a high school dropout without peers, so that does not concern me.
However, according to FBI Supervisory Agent Tom Petrowski, who interviewed me about my methodology in 2001, all law enforcement numbers except for murders are filtered in various ways, including cops not having the time to do all of the paperwork on the violence that they are personally involved in. In my original study of 1675 acts of violence conducted from June 1996 through May 2000—for which I used a 48 point checklist and discarded any encounter I could not verify 8 facts about—I did not even look at race unless it involved, knife use, gun use and mob attacks.
My most recent work with numbers—all of which one could find fault with, as I am not a statistician and I do not have the logistical means to do a broad-based survey, but use the very crude method of recording all violence experienced and witnessed by myself and those I come into contact with—can be found in 40,000 Years from Home. My entire, extensive, personal violence history is included in that book and occupies over 5 chapters.
40,000 Years from Home
I'm just sampling here, but, I'm conducting the only sampling that I know of for working class mixed-race aggression in an urban setting that is not biased by law enforcement manipulation, YouTube video selection or academic stipulation, but is rather biased according to circumstance.
Furthermore, these numbers are now badly out of date and represent a transitory trend in violence that included the Baltimore Purge and Riots of 2015. The Purge is still ongoing and represents a paradigm shift in aggression dynamics in Baltimore, but the riots are done. So, I should do another study, but would rather just focus on individual stories and survival advice. I am hoping that Baltimore, since it is the 25th largest city with the 8th largest police force and is ahead on the violence curve—indeed, we finished first in murders last year—will serve as an example of what may come of other similar cities under similar pressures.
How did this process begin?
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When You’re Food
If you live in Cody Wyoming, none of these numbers apply to you at all.
I will post this as an article.
Thank you, Anthony, for asking this question.
Thriving in Bad Places
I'm looking st the detail on the boarded up house on the "When You're Food" order page. That's a nice house. Look at the detail on the cornice. The crowns of the columns. And it's a brick house. My God the waste. I bet you could buy that thing for a $1,000 in back taxes but you couldn't live in it because of the neighbors. It's so disheartening to see such fine building gone to waste.
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Look at this theater in Detroit. The pain of seeing such fine building go to waste. We have an old theater in my town maybe 1/10 the opulence of the fine building above. Since we have LOTS of Dindus but fortunately they're not the majority the local townspeople refurbished it and they have plays, old movies, bands and cultural events there.
The little lady that does these photos is working in her own heroic scale.
James:
Three categories: Lies, damn lies, and statistics.
In every area of endeavor, the almighty figures are routinely massaged, rearranged, cooked, and reimagined. That's how you get promoted, or your unit keeps its job.
To paraphrase that Bavarian corporal, one day the whole rotten structure will fall down. Crises erupt, and the mutitudinous falsehoods come back to haunt their perpetrators.
But do I get the promotion, Unk?
Let's do lunch before it gets so cold that we can't get out of the chair...
i read about her a while ago and saw a bunch of her pix.
it would cost way too much to repair that wreck of a house tho.
all the big eastern cities have a large amount of vacant houses.
Philly had something like 25000 a couple years ago.
trouble is you wouldnt want to live in most of those 'hoods.
25,000 was also the number I got from Baltimore housing inspectors for Baltimore vacants. It is astonishing how destructive people can especially when they given things rather than earn them.