Wednesday, June 30, 2010

The penultimate solution

Heather Mac Donald, New York Times:

Allegations of racial bias, however, ignore the most important factor governing the Police Department’s operations: crime. Trends in criminal acts, not census data, drive everything that the department does, thanks to the statistics-based managerial revolution known as CompStat. Given the patterns of crime in New York, it is inevitable that stop rates will not mirror the city’s ethnic and racial breakdown.

Cops aren't racist because America isn't racist. And thanks to the statistics-based managerial revolution known as CompStat, America probably never was.

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