Charles Murray was widely lambasted a few weeks back for this Tweet:
Doesn't it make a difference to @davidafrench's argument that two of the core problems typically ascribed to centuries of American racism–elevated black violent crime and depressed mean cognitive ability–are found wherever sub-Saharan African populations live? https://t.co/ZSkSDF4BXW
— Charles Murray (@charlesmurray) July 30, 2021
Indeed, Sub-Saharan Africa isn’t that bad according to official homicide stats. For instance, Burkina Faso and Benin claim 1.3 and 1.1 /100,000 homicides, respectively, per year (from UN Office on Drugs and Crime’s International Homicide Statistics via World Bank).
But Africa is a demographic black box. For instance, we literally know more about births/deaths in mid-18th century Sweden than we do for much of Black Africa in the 2010s. WHO estimates of S.S.-African homicide rates exceed official stats by several factors.
GLOBAL STUDY ON HOMICIDE 2019: Homicide trends, patterns and criminal justice response (h/t The g Factor)
““Official” estimates are completely unreliable; where they do exist, the WHO estimates homicide rates to be many, many times higher than the official statistics. The average of the official statistics and the WHO statistics produces the graph on the right.” – (h/t The g Factor)
“International prevalence of common crime (theft and assault). Each dot is a country in that region.
What % of people report having suffered a theft or assault in the past year in surveys.” (h/t @whyvert)
Source: van Dijk, J., Nieuwbeerta, P., & Joudo Larsen, J. (2021). Global Crime Patterns: An Analysis of Survey Data from 166 Countries Around the World, 2006–2019. Journal of Quantitative Criminology.
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Even North Africa, which is in the same cultural sphere as West Asia but with a taint of African blood, is on average ahead of all of Asia.
Central Asia Uber Alles. : )
Underreporting theft is easy and happens in parts of Europe as well.
Underreporting murder outside of areas of complete lawlessness is in a completely different league. For a police officer, dismissing a corpse is nigh impossible while dismissing a theft complaint is easy (“did you even have that bike?”).
For now, I stick to the theory that they didn’t sell their best.
Seems to be a great bifurcation about a year in the making then।।
IMO, HIV stats, whether one believes them or not, should invalidate most official statistics coming out of Africa. There is also the fact that America managed to have its first census in the 1700s, and a lot of African countries cannot even manage that now.
Incidentally, I seem to recall a lot of travel writers seeing dead bodies on the ground.
I don’t even believe the Apartheid numbers, and they were obviously much more capable, as can be seen by the building of infrastructure.
A while back, I watched the Brit comedy “Time Bandits” (1981). Did not enjoy it. But, anyway, I was surprised by how many blacks appeared in the scenes set in ancient Mycenae, which was filmed in Morocco. Not 100% certain, but I am starting to suspect that they were locals to that area.
Doesn’t the king of Morocco look very negroid in certain light? (Or am I thinking of a older prince? Not sure…)
“Stay Safe” sections for Benin and Burkina Faso in Wikivoyage, the travel guide arm of Wikipedia.
Benin
Burkina Faso
Generally, daily life in the towns and cities of West Africa and other parts of majority Christian Africa is filled with the danger of robberies and attacks. However, regular life in the Sahel and other Muslim parts of Africa sees much less violence. Although, Muslim parts of Africa are more prone to war and insurgency.
French adopted a niglette. He can’t admit the potential error.
Morocco is heavily populated by blacks. Algeria isn’t though.
Is America the only country with a properly recorded blotter of negro mayhem? Both free and enslaved, Jim crowed and unleashed? Even Afrikaners couldn’t write it all down.
I honestly think that a lot of functionality could be unlocked in Africa with urban passports. For example, you could exclude people with the warrior gene, or other criminal traits.
The real difficulty would be in harnessing high IQ people, but I think there are even ways to do that. Telecommunications. Local neighborhoods (walled) with their own schools. Not PC, but on paper, it is possible to think of foreign alliances which would be mutually beneficial.
Lol, I guess the FBI and media would classify Benin as ‘mostly peaceful’.
Speaking of Africa, I was told of a female FOAF tourist who went for a walk alone in Cairo and was, um, ‘mass fondled’ by an enthusiastic flash mob. Well, at least she didn’t get raped too. My conclusion: lone woman best stay at hotel.
I would also add that no matter what your sex, as a whitey in West Africa you have a non-negligible risk of being kidnapped for ransom by muslims.
I’ve read a credible explanation by an anthropologist on twitter.
As a comparison you can look at Middle Eastern homicide rates, they are pretty low as long as the countries don’t descend into civil wars. Latin American countries have sky high homicide rates in comparison, but in Europe Middle Eastern immigrants actually commit more violent crime.
Thing is that Middle Eastern (and maybe African?) societies are characterized by strong kinship groups that keep their members in check while this is not the case in Latin America. Therefore homicide rates are much higher in Latin America.
However, among migrants these kinship groups are dissolved, which leads toAfrican and Middle Eastern migrants (except the selected and highly educated African and Middle Eastern migrants in the US) to commit lots of crime.
https://twitter.com/akhivae/status/1399768808844320770
https://twitter.com/akhivae/status/1399769157500080139
https://twitter.com/akhivae/status/1399769537059360772
https://twitter.com/akhivae/status/1399770258433531905
Could that explain comparatively lower homicide rates in Africa?
Who says the “non-report” is at the responding officer level? The government bureacracies in charge of aggregating incidents might just be totally incompetent and/or complacent. Or maybe the government is more concerned with saving face and officially presenting as orderly and well run than they are with actually maintaining order, and are intentionally fabricating numbers.
But even African police flatly not filing reports of homicide or doing so incorrectly isn’t that implausible.
Seems plausible – strong bonds of kinship where blood vendettas and revenge killings are common could depress murder rates where there is a lack of strong state enforcement.
Then that would explain the sky high murder rates of woke metropolises; demographics with a naturally high rate of criminal violence, an intentionally lax justice system for fear mof “racism”, and very weak familial or tribal bonds to pick up the slack.
Plausible, but there are a lot of potential aggravators that prevent getting a clear picture here, like a lack of statistics from these countries that we can have a high degree of confidence in.
In America, police sometimes dumped gangland hits outside of their precincts, so other police would have to deal with them.
In the West you sadly cannot jail the family members of criminals (immigrant or otherwise) because vaginas.
In Africa if you knew your biological father you’re a literal no-shit minority that deserves a special award from the government.
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JWbPpHhrRQo/YUO7wlGlOuI/AAAAAAAAHbE/n29cfDSW4SMy3Gk3CVUS4fyhGCgozUZwwCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/b.jpg
(similar memes include India, Morocco, etc. etc. etc.)
In the West your neighbour can be screaming for help as he’s being stabbed to death, but it’s not your problem because that’s just how the West is. Detached from reality from 5pm to 9am next day.
You have to own a window to look out of it. Africans don’t own windows so this is not possible.
While I’ve never been invited to a trip to India I imagine policing is just as intensive in displaying manpower on the streets. It shows a minimum, which for many people in the world is enough to maintain order on themselves (by minimum I also mean including a uniform, you can’t be just dangling your tackle box with a dress shirt on like Ethiopia or some shit).
In the West it’s common to see a heavily armed 600lb police officer with type 9000 diabetes holding the machine gun. Try not to have a heart attack bud.
In Africa a policeman issued a pistol pawns it off immediately for a seat on a boat to France.
Seems Steve Sailer is onto something similar.
https://twitter.com/Steve_Sailer/status/1438760259791716356
Isn’t that a felony? In theory, couldn’t cops go to prison for that?
Very, very, very fine point about the Aunties and worldwide use of Krugovaya Poruka.
As for India, I will personally attest to police prevalence, the bunkers you mentioned, and every single trains station having an old army man with an elephant gun or Enfield.
Well, can you explain this?
http://imgur.com/a/f1CGASp