Tucker looks at the alarming rise in black deaths during 2020 and suggests the cause is not, as Pete Buttiegieg suggests, suddenly racist roads that weren’t racist in the decades prior, but a sudden change in law enforcement. Highlights include:
“Last summer, deep in the bowels of the transportation department in Washington, some nameless federal analyst came across a highly puzzling trend in a pile of stats on traffic deaths. It turned out that in the year 2020, the number of American motorists who died on the road spiked dramatically. Traffic deaths rose by more than 10% in a single year. Now, in any year that would be odd and distressing, but coming as it did in 2020, it was flat out bizarre, because, as you’ll remember, in 2020 there was a pandemic.”
“If you look deeper into the numbers, you saw that not only were more Americans dying in cars in the year 2020. A staggering number of those who died were black. Traffic deaths among African Americans rose by nearly 25% in a single year. That’s unprecedented. So, in a normal presidential administration, that question, why is this happening, would be the subject of urgent academic study.”
“People are dying, let’s figure out why, but in this administration it was not the subject of urgent academic study. Why? Because Pete Buttigieg is now the secretary of transportation. He already knew the cause of these deaths, and it was, needless to say, racism. Racism did it because America’s roads are racist.”
“But, what doesn’t make sense is the timing here. Very few of these racist roads are new, most of them have been there a long time. So, why did so many black motorists suddenly start dying in the year 2020?”
“There it is, right there, that’s the answer. Cops across the country were told to stop enforcing traffic laws against black drivers. No one wanted to be accused of arresting somebody for the crime of ‘driving while black.’ So, in the name of equity, the law no longer applied to huge numbers of people. The result? Thousands of Americans died. This is a trend, you may have noticed, and it doesn’t just apply to traffic, and it doesn’t just cause traffic deaths.”
“Less law enforcement means more crime, and over time, more dead children, more grieving parents. You don’t need to be a criminologist to understand this. It’s very obvious. “
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