Posted by
John Caile on Monday, March 02, 2009 11:45:28 AM
When the safety of the public is sacrificed on the altar of Political Correctness, it's time to speak out. Time and again, in reporting violent crime, mainstream media "journalists" bend over backwards to avoid accurately describing the perpetrators.
The latest examples occurred this past weekend in the Twin Cities. In one case, a man who was walking his dog Friday evening was confronted by 4 thugs who asked him for "change for the phone" - then promptly beat him unconscious and left him in the freezing alley. Luckily, police on a routine patrol found him before he froze to death. Yet in spite of the fact that the man saw the assailants face-to-face, and even spoke to them, neither the on-air video report or the website write-up gave any description other than "four young men."
Then on Sunday, a pair of thugs committed a string of 7 armed robberies in less than two hours. In this case, we had multiple witnesses who saw these guys "up close and personal" and we know that a clear description of the suspects was given - the police even remarked that "there is a similarity in suspect descriptions" given by the victims. With the suspects still at large, you would think that police would want people to be on the lookout for them, and citizens certainly have a right to know whom to look for.
Given all this, you would expect the press to do everything possible to inform the public, wouldn't you? Think again - the only description of the suspects mentioned in the media was "two males in their 20s."
Boy, that really narrows it down. Uh, folks, when people are attacked on our streets, how about you tell us about height, weight, clothing, and, most importantly, physical characteristics? Were they black? Hispanic-looking? Caucasian? Asian?
Hint: the suspects in these cases were almost certainly NOT Caucasian. How do we know? Because if they had been, a very lengthy and precise description would have been given.
Unknown to most of the public is that the official policy of the mainstream media is to avoid giving descriptions of criminal suspects whenever they have characteristics that would link them to any identified minority group. You see, if they tell people what criminals actually looked like, it might "offend" some minority activists. Caucasian looking suspects, on the other hand, are fair game.
This goes beyond ineptness, or even bias - putting people's lives at risk for the sake of a political agenda borders on the criminal.