Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani again weighed in on tensions between members of the black community and police officers in an appearance on “Fox News Sunday.”
Giuliani said that he thinks that some police officers do discriminate against blacks, but he went on to say that blacks are partially responsible for that.
“There is more interaction and more unfair interaction among police officers, white and black, in the black community than in the white community. And I think some of that responsibility is on the police department and on police departments to train their officers better and to make their police departments much more diversified,” Giuliani said Sunday. “But I think just as much, if not more, responsibility is on the black community to reduce the reason why the police officers are assigned in such large numbers to the black community.”
Giuliani then brought up crime statistics similar to those he cited a week ago.
“It’s because blacks commit murder eight times more per capita than any other group in our society. And when I assigned police officers with Commissioner Bratton and Commissioner Safir, we did it based on statistics. We didn’t do it based on race. If there were a lot of murders in a community, we put a lot of police officers there,” he said.
Since his appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press” last weekend, Giuliani has made several controversial remarks on race and crime in the U.S.
On Sunday, Giuliani also said that he didn’t think Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson’s case should have gone to a grand jury.
“I don’t see how this case normally would have been brought to a grand jury,” he said. “This is the kind of case, had it not had the racial overtones and the national publicity, where a prosecutor would have come to the conclusion that there’s not enough evidence to present to the grand jury.”
Watch a clip via Media Matters:
Shorter Giuliani: “Just lie back, shut up and enjoy it.”
(Alternate version: “Stop shooting yourself! Stop shooting yourself!”)
Who is he preaching this message to exactly? Because his choir never had any doubt and it looks bad to everyone else.
He is trying hard to cement the white racist community for his next book tour.
Are his statistics current? I understand murder rates are down all over the place. About the only category on the rise is white police officers shooting black teenagers.
A casual look at the FBI statistics indicate that he is probably right on the numbers. The population is about 20% black, but blacks account for about 55% of the murder victims and offenders. Whites account for nearly all of the rest.
That leads to a lot of questions that require real study. For example, do blacks living in predominantly white communities have the same disparity or do their rates mirror the white communities where they live?
The statistics indicate something even more interesting than race. The majority of all murders involve young men as both offenders and victims. That happens across the board regardless of race, but numbers aren’t as pronounced among whites as they are among blacks. Among blacks murder is a crime of youth. Among whites young people murder but so do older people.
The most important statistic is the total murder rate is in rapid decline. I wouldn’t know that watching the evening news.
Lots of things to study, Giuliani is just pandering to his racist base.
Giuliani’s dog whistle message:
“Go back to sleep white America. This isn’t your fault. This isn’t your concern. Go back to sleep and let the police continue down the path they’ve been on since the 1800s.”
He looks better in drag.