Obama to Eradicate Racial Bias in Law Enforcement

The Obama Administration to Launch Database to Eradicate Racial Bias in Law Enforcement

Attorney General Eric Holder announced another government initiative in the Obama Administration’s ongoing effort to stir up racial friction.   He announced a grant program that will award cities money to participate in a race-tracking law enforcement database.

“Noting that African-American and Hispanic males are arrested at disproportionately high rates, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday that the Justice Department will seek to collect data about stops, searches and arrests as part of a larger effort to analyze and reduce the possible effect of bias within the criminal justice system,” the Department of Justice announced in a statement on its website Monday.

According to the statement, the new initiative stems from President Barack Obama’s call last year for law enforcement agencies to reach out to minority communities in the wake of George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the Trayvon Martin self-defense shooting case.

 “Racial disparities contribute to tension in our nation generally and within communities of color specifically, and tend to breed resentment towards law enforcement that is counterproductive to the goal of reducing crime,” Holder said in his weekly video address.

Why does this administration always blame everything on race?  Apparently it has never occurred to this administration that Blacks and Hispanic males are arrested and jailed a disproportionate amount of the time because they perpetrate a disproportionate amount of crimes.  Maybe, just maybe that could be because a disproportionate number of Blacks and Hispanic males were raised with no father in their lives.

It seems to me treating the cause rather than the symptom would achieve a more positive outcome.  I’m not saying there isn’t any racism in law enforcement, I’m sure there is some, but not nearly to the extent that exists in the minds of this administration.  This administration has used race as a wedge to open up wounds that had been healed for years.