Which States Are Most Heavily Warehousing Your DNA? Why?
This spring, the FBI expanded its practice of warehousing DNA sample data, expanding from samples of criminal convicts to samples from people who have been arrested but not convicted of a crime. As a...
View ArticleFact Check: Does an Increase in Gun Ownership Lead to a Decrease in Crime?
Charles Manning writes yesterday: Overall violent crime is down in the U.S., notwithstanding the steady procession of mass shootings. 2nd Amendment fanatics believe being armed accounts for a major...
View ArticleNRA claim about Crime and Right-to-Carry States: Is it True? (Fact Check)
Yesterday, I noticed the recent Twitter posting of a disgraced former GOP chair: “In right-to-carry states the violent crime rate is 24% lower than the rest of the US and the murder rate is 28% lower.”...
View ArticleGeorge Washington Was Wrong (Religiosity, Felicity and Prosperity)
The following declaration issues forth from the Baptist church in South Somerville, Maine: George Washington never actually said these exact words in 1789 or at any other time. What Washington actually...
View ArticleFact Check: Malcolm Gladwell’s Mythic South
As I’ve been reading Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers over the last few days, I’ve been accumulating a sense of hokum as Gladwell tells stories and spins out anecdotes. My B.S. detector finally hit the...
View ArticleAre the Racists Right? Is Minneapolis More Violent Since Somali Immigrants...
The blog “Stuff Black People Don’t Like” has made an incendiary accusation about Somali immigrants to Minneapolis, Minnesota: “None of these Somalis in any city of the United States should be in the...
View ArticleAfter Somali Immigrants arrived in Minneapolis, did Crime change differently...
There are some people on the internet, writing for websites with names like “Stormfront” and “Stuff Black People Don’t Lie,” who make a cottage industry out of posting a link every time a Somali...
View ArticleColumbus, Somali Arrivals and Crime
Consider the State of Ohio’s Department Job and Family Services record of the pattern of resettlement of Somali refugees from 1999 to 2011. Consider it in the context of Uniform Crime Reports data for...
View ArticleHas Crime in Towns around Lewiston, ME been “Doubling or Higher” Since Somali...
Read the comments to this 2013 Irregular Times article if you’d like to see some cognitive dissonance at work. A lot of people “know” (by which I mean think) that Lewiston, Maine has become a much more...
View ArticleIs Violence on the Rise or Fall in the United States? The Answer Depends on...
Last week, a comment left here by Ella reacted to Peregrin Wood’s characterization of Radical Islamic Instant Internet Brainwashing Hypnowave stories as an unfounded social panic. Ella claimed that it...
View ArticleIs the Little Mogadishu Really the Epicenter of Crime in Minneapolis? Crime...
I encourage you to visit the comments sections for a variety of articles at Irregular Times regarding Muslim immigrants to America from Somalia (see here, here and here for some examples). In those...
View ArticleA New Year. Is Minneapolis’ Little Mogadishu a Hotbed of Crime yet?
We have a regular visitor here who likes to predict that allowing Somali refugees to settle in the United States will utterly destroy the country because they’ll somehow engage in massive waves of...
View ArticleMinneapolis Summer 2016: Somali Immigrant Neighborhood Shows Less Crime, Not...
Donald Trump and his followers love to proclaim that immigrants are a major source of crime in the United States. Trump has declared that “crime is through the roof!” because of immigration, when...
View ArticleNew Crime Stats for 2015 Show Donald Trump is Wrong about Somali Immigrants...
When Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump visited Maine earlier this year, he gave a speech in which he made the following characterization of Lewiston, the most prominent home of Somali...
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