Slightly adjacent to the “topic” of the below video: Majority-Black cities apparently consistently have more women than men, and by more than the national average due to the insanely high male incarceration and early death rates. I suspect this consistent skew contributes to certain cultural manifestations that amplify the already extant inclination towards fast-life strategy. This is supported by studies analyzing and comparing higher female:male ratios vs higher male:female ratios on college campuses where higher female:male ratios consistently resulted in more casual sex and fewer stable relationships.
If black criminality were actually consistently policed in large cities, the disparities would be much worse than they are now. The issue is any solution to criminality and crime reduction along the axis of black criminality will simply generate more black criminality through a skewed sex ratio that encourages single mother households and fast-life strategy. So the reality is if you increase policing and rates of incarceration without concurrently slashing state assistance as an anticipatory disincentive against the known dysfunctional family formation modes of higher female:male ratios create and the associations of those family structures with criminality—the increase in incarceration will simply result in a flat or increased rate of the “production of criminals” a generation removed.
So really, attempting to solve the below problem through consistent and unrelenting application of justice creates an unfortunate catch-22 where the only way to solve it is to very likely increase poverty for a generation or two through removal of welfare to try and “reset” family formation through the forcing function of necessity. Black family formation seemed to fair marginally better under the segregation era where there were much more limited benefits, but obviously ymmv here due to confounders such as increased religiosity, and so on.
If black criminality were actually consistently policed in large cities, the disparities would be much worse than they are now. The issue is any solution to criminality and crime reduction along the axis of black criminality will simply generate more black criminality through a skewed sex ratio that encourages single mother households and fast-life strategy. So the reality is if you increase policing and rates of incarceration without concurrently slashing state assistance as an anticipatory disincentive against the known dysfunctional family formation modes of higher female:male ratios create and the associations of those family structures with criminality—the increase in incarceration will simply result in a flat or increased rate of the “production of criminals” a generation removed.
So really, attempting to solve the below problem through consistent and unrelenting application of justice creates an unfortunate catch-22 where the only way to solve it is to very likely increase poverty for a generation or two through removal of welfare to try and “reset” family formation through the forcing function of necessity. Black family formation seemed to fair marginally better under the segregation era where there were much more limited benefits, but obviously ymmv here due to confounders such as increased religiosity, and so on.
Well there goes the neighbourhood..View quoted post on X
