Fact 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...
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Fact Check Update: is Lewiston, Maine Crime-Ridden since the 2001 arrival of...
Since I’ve moved to Maine, I’ve encountered a lot of friendly people, but I’ve also heard many derogatory comments about the supposed criminality of Somali immigrants who began arriving in Lewiston,...
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Alabama Prison Guard Bennie Ashby Calls For The Killing Of Amanda Scott
When Bennie O. Ashby, an officer with the Alabama Department of Corrections (a prison guard), saw that Amanda Scott had requested legal equality between Christians and non-Christians, he got angry....
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Did Somali Immigrants Really Plunge Lewiston, Maine into Crime? (2013 Fact...
Since I moved to Maine, I’ve learned that Mainers think of some parts of their state as better than others. “Real Maine” includes the mill town of Millinocket, for example, but that term apparently...
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...
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Proof that More Immigration Leads to Higher Crime
Except wait, it’s not proof of that at all. As the share of the U.S. population made up of immigrants has more than doubled, the violent crime rate has actually fallen. Does this information fail to...
View ArticleAfter Arrival of Somali Immigrants, was Lewiston a Crime Outlier for Maine?
Up here in Maine, if you ask a bunch of people on the street which is the most dangerous, crime-ridden town in the state, more than half will name Lewiston. Lewiston, Maine has a reputation for crime...
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After 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...
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Columbus, 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...
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Have St. Cloud Crime Rates Doubled Since Somalis Came to Town? The Answer...
Steve Platy writes in response to an article showing that crime hasn’t worsened in Minneapolis since Somalis’ arrival: “What you would find is that Minneapolis did indeed, still experience a moderate...
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Has 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...
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Have Crime Rates in Androscoggin County been “Doubling or Higher” Since...
For a few years now, I’ve been looking into the persistent notion some people have that Somali immigrants have somehow plunged the city of Lewiston, Maine into an unprecedented crime wave. If you look...
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New Body Found In Pensacola Shows Signs Of Ritual Murder, Says Expert
At end of last week, the local news media in Pensacola, Florida suddenly went silent on the story of the murder of Voncile Smith and her two sons, after sensationalistic claims by Escambia County...
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Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan Found With Ritual Items In His Office
Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan made a name for himself a little over a week ago when he abruptly announced that a triple Wiccan blue moon ritual murder had taken place within his jurisdiction...
View ArticleRitual Crime Ring In Pensacola Broken Up By Escambia County Sheriff
In the past, I have expressed skepticism about the claims by Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan that ritual crimes are rife throughout his bailiwick of Pensacola, Florida. Today, however, I have to...
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News Tips for Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan on New Wiccan Crime Spree
In the wake of the little-heralded acknowledgement by Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan that a local murder wasn’t some kind Wiccan ritual after all, it might be tempting for Sheriff Morgan to back...
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Has More Immigration Led to Higher Crime in the United States?
Nope. Sources: U.S. Census Bureau and Uniform Crime Reports. Someone tell Donald Trump.
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Sheriff’s Office In Pensacola, Florida Linked To Ritual Activity That Leaves...
One month ago, Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan held a press conference to declare that Voncile Smith and her two sons had been murdered in their Pensacola home by Wiccans who were conducting a...
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Lewiston, Maine continues to Experience a Decline in Crime after Somali...
For years now, there have been people who don’t like the fact that immigrants from Somalia have settled in Lewiston, Maine. Some of the people who don’t like Somalis have been claiming that since the...
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Is 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...
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