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What if the George Floyd narrative is false?
New report challenges the myth of a racially biased criminal justice system
By David Zimmer | Fox News

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The death of George Floyd here in Minnesota sparked a burst of
lawlessness not just in Minneapolis but across the country. When the
riots ended, the country began a years-long examination of race
relations not seen since the end of the civil rights era of the 1960s.
Much of that conversation centered on the criminal justice system, and
specifically the widely accepted narrative that the system is rigged
against black people at every stage.

While some of this national reckoning on race has been helpful,
activists have used Floyd’s death to push forward an entire movement on
diversity, equity and inclusion that has gone beyond the criminal
justice system and infiltrated schools, corporations, and every aspect
of society. All based on the narrative that the system is biased against
blacks.

What if that narrative was false?

In 2021, for the first time, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal
Apprehension began documenting the race of criminal offenders in all
crimes reported in the state. Using the 911 call as the starting point
instead of the arrest offers the unique ability to focus analysis of
race based criminal justice system performance on offenders rather than
on "per capita" data sets of uninvolved law-abiding citizens. The
difference is significant, given 98 percent of white and 85 percent of
black Minnesotans are law abiding.

In our new report titled Dispelling the Myth of Unwarranted Racial
Disparities in Minnesota’s Criminal Justice System, Center of the
American Experiment is one of the first to use this new data set in an
analysis of Minnesota’s criminal justice system. Offender data and other
traditional data sets were used in an analysis which compared white and
black adult offenders as they moved through Minnesota’s criminal justice
system in 2021.

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The analysis found that contrary to the established narrative,
Minnesota’s criminal justice system does not create unfair or disparate
outcomes for black offenders. In fact, from arrests to charges,
sentences, and incarceration, white offenders received more certain and
more punitive outcomes.

Examination of the 2021 data showed that blacks represented nine times
more criminal offenders overall and ten times more serious offenders
(those most likely to receive a prison sentence) than whites. If
Minnesota’s criminal justice system was systemically unjust and biased,
it would stand to reason those ratios would have worsened for black
offenders at each subsequent stage of the criminal justice system. But
they didn’t – they improved. In direct conflict with the prevailing
narrative, the disparities that followed criminal offenders through the
system were frequently more favorable to black offenders and less
favorable to white offenders at every stage including incarceration.

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Why is this so important to clarify? Because decades of policies that
gutted accountability for black offenders have subjected black
communities in particular to disproportionate levels of crime. As a
result, in 2021 black Minnesotans were victims of serious and violent
crime at ten times the rate of white Minnesotans.

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Our report definitively shows that in Minnesota, the home state of
George Floyd, the criminal justice system is not an unjust system
purposefully or even poorly designed to inflict harsher penalties on
black Minnesotans. It is a system that deals with grossly
disproportionate numbers of black offenders at the outset. Deflecting
attention away from this fact, and gutting accountability in a misguided
effort to address "disparities" only subjects black communities to
continued disproportionately high levels of crime.

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I wonder what the reaction from race activists would be if our report
showed Minnesota worked hard to end racial bias in the criminal justice
system instead of simply proving it never existed. Would they cheer the
result as progress toward the color-blind justice system promised in the
Constitution? Would they refocus their energy upstream on the reasons
more Blacks enter the system in the first place such as education
disparities and broken families? Would they support crime victims (who
are disproportionally Black) by demanding accountability from all
criminals, no matter their race? I hope so but fear the deep divisions
in our political system won’t allow it, even when the facts belie the
narrative.

David Zimmer is a Policy Fellow specializing in crime and public safety
at Minnesota-based Center of the American Experiment. He is the author
of Dispelling the Myth of Unwarranted Racial Disparities in Minnesota’s
Criminal Justice System.

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reeser379
5 hours ago

I have often asked for comparisons such as these to define criminal
activity and law enforcement activities. THE FACT IS, DON’T DO THE
CRIME TO PREVENT ARREST AND PROSECUTION! This basic ingredient is often
overlooked by demonstrators! Many seek financial rewards under false
pretenses.
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MasterChiefUSN931
4 hours ago

This information will not come as a surprise to many and certainly will
not change the paradigm of the Left. Too much money and power to be had
in pursuing the falsehoods which have become 'truths' for those who will
not open their eyes to see them.

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Saynotosocialism086
3 hours ago

All intelligent people in the country already knew that the George Floyd
incident and all the riots that covered the country afterwards were all
created by a false narrative. And now good officers are off the force,
and some are doing time for only doing their job.

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The_Kurgan
5 hours ago

The entire narrative is false. The cops knee was NOT on Floyd's neck
the entire time he was on the ground. The only time the knee made
contact was when Floyd tried to get up. The only reason Floyd was on
the ground was because he fought the officers when they tried to put him
in a police car.

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thatotherguy459
1 hour ago

People with an agenda tend to ignore root-cause analysis. For example,
let's say Driver A is speeding, weaving in and out of traffic, and
generally causing potential mayhem on the road. A is pulled over by the
police, the situation escalates, and A is shot. A then becomes a cause
celebre for activi...
activist groups determined to undermine the police and rule of law.
But, wait! Didn't A precipitate the outcome by deliberating driving
dangerously? Not in the eyes of the activist crowd. George Floyd's
actions and drug use were not the match that touched off the entire set
of tragic events - he should have been allowed to proceed with his
criminal activities (at least, according to the liberal interpretation).

What we have lost in this country is individual accountability. No one
is responsible for his/her own actions. A drunk driver who kills three
children blames the bartender. The killer using a firearm blames the gun
manufacturer. And there are legions of folks encouraging this lack of
accountability - the whole DEI agenda is driven by the patronizing
attitude that certain groups cannot effectively compete on their own merits.

True equality will only come when everyone accepts their
race/age/political affiliation has bad actors in it. In the meantime,
the excuses and finger-pointing will continue.

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catwoman10
6 hours ago

GEORGE FLOYD (1974-2020)☠️

George Floyd, 46, died while being arrested for passing a counterfeit
twenty dollar bill in Minneapolis, MN. on May 25, 2020. George was a
lifelong drug addict and career criminal whose interests included acting
in porn movies, selling cocaine and fentanyl, robbing defens...
defenseless women during home invasions, holding a gun to a pregnant
woman’s abdomen, and spending time in prison among others like him. His
cause of death will be disputed in court but unsurprisingly, he tested
positive for methamphetamine and a powerful respiratory depressant
fentanyl, two of his favorite recreational drugs. George recently moved
to Minneapolis to get a fresh start and to leave Houston, where he had
accumulated at least three convictions for drug offenses and aggravated
robbery while armed with a firearm. The fact that his most recent arrest
was for a non-violent offense shows that George had finally found his
way. George is survived by several children from several different baby
mommas, none of whom had seen him for years because he was only recently
released from Texas State Prison after serving a five year sentence for
his robbery conviction. Funeral services will be held on various dates
all over the country to honor this pillar of society. Mourners are
invited to join violent demonstrations to honor George's memory. Molotov
cocktails are requested in lieu of flowers. Looting and burning property
would be a nice way to honor George's memory....🙄