Heather Mac Donald, the Fraud

[Re: “Science Needs Honesty, Not Affirmative Action.”]

By Anonymous
Friday, March 11, 2022 at 8:44:00 A.M. EST

Heather Mac Donald is a friend of a friend. Said friend, who had a long career with NYPD and was in Compstat [computer statistics] meetings for years, has explained to her repeatedly the NYPD Compstat numbers have been monkeyed with by precinct commanders and NYPD executives forever to make themselves look good.

Now there was a sea change regarding enforcement that played a big part in the drop in the homicide numbers, but the NYPD has ignored other factors; the switch from cocaine to opioids as the street drug of choice; the improved economy; the influx of Third World immigrants who have lower crime rates than native minorities; and drops in African and Latino populations (the Freakonomics guys and Steve Sailer dispute how this may or may not correlate with the availability of free abortion). Instead, NYPD commissioner after NYPD commissioner has acted like an Aztec shaman who gets paid fealty when the sun comes back after an eclipse. Simply, she is wrong about minority communities embracing cops (they never have, and never will), and further the efficacy of stop & frisk. Precinct commanders in their zeal to get promoted by “doing something” did too often encourage stops that had nothing to do with sensible policing nor probable cause. And that led directly to the nonsense of Shira Scheindlin’s federal courtroom.

N.S.: Heather Mac Donald is a fraud. Her entire career is based on years of lying on behalf of the NYPD. That’s why when An Old Friend sends me stuff by her on the antiversity, I refuse to run it. What am I going to do, run each “thing” with a preface, “I am running this article by notorious liar, Heather Mac Donald. Enjoy!”? Maybe I oughter.

I published my first exposé of broken windows policing, which I had initially supported, “Crime Stories,” in 1996 in Chronicles magazine. I have published several more since then, at Middle American News (RIP) andVDARE.

Policy debates consist, these days, of dueling lies, and Mac Donald is a Republican liar. She is also of the Ivy League/Overpriced Private University (OPU) world, while I am an Asphalt Leaguer, so there are many people who will credulously support her who won’t give me so much as a hearing, the facts be damned.

During the 1980s, Republicans James Q. Wilson (1931-2012), George L. Kelling (1935-2019), and Catherine M. Coles (the late Kelling’s wife and co-author), came up with this brilliant but credibility-challenged scam: We’ll show that we can triumph over race and ethnicity, and produce lower crime rates in a multicultural city than in a White city.

It was impossible, and in The Rise and Fall of New York City (1985) Roger Starr (1918-2001) explained why it was impossible, before they even got the chance to put their pie-in-the-sky program into practice.