CMV: This San Francisco Board of Education member is not racist for citing the truth.

Yes it makes you racist, because it's ascribing a particular criminal act to an entire race. If one were to look at mass shooters and serial killers throughout the world and actually examine the numbers you'd find that whites are no more likely to become serial killers or mass shooters than other racial groups. It only appears that way in the United States.

The fact that more mass killers and serial killers are white is due to the demographics of the United States and the criminal justice system here. A white male is more likely to be a "successful" serial killer because he is less likely to be arrested quickly. In historical terms many white males have been able to kill many victims and even be detained by the police but are released without a thorough investigation.

For instance Jeffrey Dahmer was caught by the police chasing a naked black boy on the street by the police and they returned the child to Dahmer. Let a black male try that. You should not ascribe a particular act or mindset to a racial group. The root causes of criminality are diverse and cannot be reduced to "white males are more likely to be mass shooters or serial killers." It's exactly that kind of thinking that harms criminal investigations.

One reason the DC Sniper was able to avoid arrest was because law enforcement were convinced that it was a white man driving a white van or box truck. They were so convinced that both John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo were questioned by Baltimore City Police for sleeping in their specially modified car and released because they "did not fit the description". If those officers had searched the trunk they would have found the weapons and possibly the hole drilled in the trunklid for the rifle. Instead more innocent people died. Racism has an insidious way of blinding everyone to reality.

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