Black on Black shootings take a toll

Violence amongst African descended population

On the 27th of August IslaminEurope.net featured a story on the shootings amongst Blacks in the Black neighbourhood Zuid-Oost (South-East). The level of violence in an area of perhaps 9 square kilometers is unusually high by Dutch standards. In 2009 there have been 22 registered shoot-outs. Three people got killed. The last deadly shoot-out was on the 22th of September. It took the life of a 19 year old Carribean black rapper Ishmael Gumbs (Dutch). He had immigrated from the Carribean 2 years ago. He was shot in full view of playing children in a quarrel over an insult to the girlfriend of the killer.

Random shootings?

According to the police the shootings are not related. The cause of the shoot-outs may be insults or conflicts over drug deals. The things the shoot-outs have in common is the Racial background of the shooters and the locality.

Ishmael Gumbs rapping about the thug life style that led to his death

Africa in Europe: the police response

African populations and social disfunction

In a my post a week ago about Africans in Europe I mentioned the disfunctional behaviour of Africans abroad. I include people descended from African populations in to create the grouping `Africans`.

The response by the police

There news is that the Dutch police and bureaucrats are getting more and more concerned with African violence. Amsterdam Police Chief Welten (Dutch) stated that a lot of the violence by Caribbeans was caused by or inluenced by rappers. According to the Police Chief a lot of the violence was motiveless. The rappers glorify violence and those who use violence. It can be said that the rappers promote gang membership. These gangs engage in burglaries, prostitution and drug smuggling and dealing.

Combatting gang membership

It is not clear what the Police Chief wants to do about the glorifying of violence. The measures the Police Chief proposed was using legislation that was introduced to combat organized crime by taxing criminals to death on violent gang members. This way the gold jewellery and expensive cars of gang members can be confiscated. This would take incentives for young blacks away to join gangs and have a high social standing in the African and Caribbean communities.

Police Chief threatens ethnic Dutchmen, protects Muslim 'hoods

In an article written in 2004 by Mr. Lawrence Auster in 2004 he addresses the core of the double standard of liberalism.

The double standard may well be the most characteristic feature of the leftist cultural order under which we now live .. [the reason for the double standard of liberalism] .. is that today's "liberals" are really leftists who have rejected the older liberal belief in a shared equality of citizens before the law and have embraced the socialist vision of "equality as a fact and equality as a result," ..

In his article Mr. Auster continues:

the left has for tactical reasons largely shifted its demand for equality of results away from the economic sphere to the cultural/moral sphere and the advancement of "oppressed" cultural and ethnic groups. The result is cultural socialism, which entails the same kind of bureaucratically imposed egalitarian “solution” as existed under the older socialism, and thus leads to a cultural double standard. This cultural double standard goes something like this: Since "we" (e.g., whites, Westerners, Christians, men, conservatives, Americans, the U.S. armed forces, Republicans, and heterosexuals) constitute an allegedly dominant group in society and are better off than the "Other" (e.g., nonwhites, non-Westerners, Moslems, women, liberals, immigrants, enemy combatants, Democrats, and homosexuals), our superior position violates the imperative of equality. In order for the desired state of equality to be attained, we, the unfairly dominant group, must be condemned, excluded, and dragged down, while the Other must be celebrated, included, and raised up. In short, in the name of equality, society is divided into two radically distinct groups, to which radically different rules apply.

In Europe today this means that the police is contemplating cracking down on the local citizenry which is getting restless as a result of its suffering at the hands of Muslim criminals.

Dutch newspaper "De Pers" published an interview with East Amsterdam (Amsterdam-Oost) police district chief Ad Smit. After giving many examples of the knowledge of ethnic differences that is required to police a multicultural cauldron like East Amsterdam the district chief speaks some chilling words, intended perhaps to appease those higher up in the police and political hierarchies:

In neighbourhood meetings people mention "Moroccan-C**ts". It is called out in the streets, at Moroccans. Also during disturbances. That bystanders call: if you do not act, we will act, but differently, with baseball bats. I have heard it with my own ears. We (the police) do not accept that, this is taking the law in one's own hands. So far we have managed to contain it, end it. At the beginning of this year I reported to the Chiefs of the Amsterdam Police that the reaction of ethnic Dutchmen against Moroccans is fierce, something must be done. We have strongly intervened. We arrested dozens of muggers. We - especially the community policemen - are paying special attention to make sure whether the ethnic Dutch are getting out of hand. When the cause is taken away, the anger ebbs away as well.

Interviewer: So people limit themselves to nagging and calling names?

They still do [emphasis mine]. One has got to have a serious demeanor. One has to exude that one will not choose the side of Dutch ethnics if such words used. And that force will be used if things goes too far.

If the moment comes that fists are clenched, the moment that people will organise against certain population groups, then things are getting out of hand and I will use force. If I as a Police Chief would know that a group [of ethnics] is organizing to get at another group [of ethnics] I will have the whole lot arrested.

As long as I have the power I will resist with all my strength. It is an incredibly dangerous matter. I think it is easy is one is not doing well - and today many marginalized people are being marginalized even more - to have a go at the Other. Midway through the last century, we've had a very bad example of that.

[Edit: Mr Laurence Auster of VFR sent me a mail stating I ought to make explicit what the double standard of Police Chief Ad Visser is].

The double standard is that ethnic Dutchmen have been exposed to Moroccan and other Muslim crime for 30 year or longer. The police has refused to protect society during that period. The police could not be bothered and the percentage of reported crimes solved fell to 15 percent. Now that the ethnic Dutch are so provoked that they are stirring and preparing to counter the actions of the Muslim community all of a sudden the police CAN be bothered to crack down on those who take the law in their own hands. This is liberal Police Chief Ad Visser's double standard. [End of Edit]

Now, after 30 years the failures of Liberalism and its offspring, the Multicultural society, become heavy, too heavy a burden. The native Dutchmen are getting restless. The authorities are looking at each other for encouragement and support. They want to tell the others in their class that they stand ready to crush unrest and dissent. Their rule will survive despite any challenge.

Another translation of the interview with Ad Smit was made by Esther of Islam in Europe - she has a different and perhaps more liberal angle.

Why do people join gangs?

Why do youngsters join gangs?

Randall Parker at Parapundit quotes a criminologist on the reasons why people join gangs:

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Children who join gangs feel safer despite a greater risk of being assaulted or killed,

Randall wonders whether this is evidence of innumeracy of gang members:

I'm reminded of a recent post where Razib brought up the term "alief" as distinct from "belief" and a discussion of aliefs. Is this feeling of safety a demonstration of an alief?

I think that people who join gangs are typically innumerate. But I think that people who are good with numbers will also want to join gangs if the circumstances encourage it.

Are gangbangers innumerate?

Being numerate will not stop people from joining gangs.

People who live in a violent neighbourhood feel frightened and not in control. By joining a gang and using group violence against others increases one´s perceived control. Join the doers, rather than being a lone object. The perceived control trumps any understanding of the risks of joining a violent gang. Control is rewarding in itself. So is being part of a group.

Masculine values encourage gang membership

Add that in many communities the ability to use violence is a positive value, connected to masculinity. This value may trump selfpreservation.

Add that wherever there are many young males, there will be competition through violence. It is only a bad thing when society is so out of control, that violence is used to take something that does not rightfully belong to the taker. Not to mention that it is nothing out of the ordinary to bring knives and guns to this violence.

So even if people understand that they are choosing a `deathstyle` the immediate reward of joining a gang is enough to compel people to do it.

Positive sides of forming gangs

Forming a gang may be the first step to forming a lawful militia, defending the interests of the community. Provided a given community has adherence to the law rather than anarchy in its patrimony.

The formation of youngsters into gangs is caused by ethnic diversity and insecurity caused by high incidence of violent crime. Rather than the innumeracy of prospective gang members.