From 76.5% White to 58.8% White in 20 Years: The Reason Indianapolis is Dying Before Our Eyes

(PK NOTE: Indianapolis has been the focus of a lot of writing lately. That's because it's the epicenter of all the problems SBPDL discusses). 

Watching a city die before our eyes is depressing, for it serves as a micro-study of a macro-problem.

What was a 76.5 percent white city in 1990 – and a city whose growth, stability, and future was dependent upon this population group – is now a 58.8 percent white city today.

Indianapolis.

It's simple math folks. Nothing more, nothing less. 

As the white population decreases, crime increases. 

Violent crime.

As the white population decreases, so does the tax-base, property value, and outside investments businesses and corporations are willing to make in the city of Indianapolis.

"Blight" sets in where children once played and memories of the neighborhood picnic variety were made. 

As the white population decreases, so the investment the city makes in police/security increases [IMPD moving 100 officers to street amid Indy's skyrocketing homicides: Reorganization to be announced Monday has been planned for months, city officials say, Indy Star, July 8, 2013]:

“I ask you, what are we supposed to do?” said Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Chief Rick Hite. “We don’t have the resources to have additional cops right now, so we make do. What we’re trying to do is maximize our resources on the street.” “Right now, the Department of Public Safety takes up over 86 percent of the entire city budget,” he said, or about $430 million of the budget, of which $200 million goes directly to IMPD. “Anything additional that we spend comes out of some other government agency, or we end up in a deficit. 

And it’s not the only plan law enforcement officials have implemented. Last winter, the city launched new “zero-tolerance” crackdowns on youth violence at area shopping malls and added extra on-duty officers at places such as Circle Centre mall, the Downtown Canal and Broad Ripple.

Why not include ministers, faith-based organizations, and the black community in policing what can only be described as an almost entirely black-problem? The Indy Star article continues:

That’s a point that Rev. Charles Harrison, president of the Ten Point Coalition, can agree with — though he’s frustrated by a lack of financial support for his faith-based crime-prevention group. 

Harrison pointed to the death of Edwards as an example of how criminal attitudes are changing for the worse. 

“Downtown was full of cops, but yet those kids still went down there and committed a murder,” he said. “They’re not afraid to go to jail. They’re not afraid to die. 

“We cannot use old strategies to try to combat the violence that we’re seeing today.”Harrison said his social outreach group used to send as many as 10 workers to troubled neighborhoods to ferret out the root of criminal activity and counsel troubled youths, but now has only four workers for that task.

Oh yes, Rev. Harrison and the Ten Point Coalition have their proverbial hands out, claiming to have the “only” cure to the problem of black crime, like some carnival psychic promising to read your palm and tell your future for only $10…

Well, the decrease in the white population in the city of Indianapolis and the increase in percentage of ‘people of color’ does have one noticeable, profound impact on the city – to ensure some safety for tax-payers, property owners, and businesses operating in the city, more police must be hired.

The monopoly on violence in the city of Indianapolis is teetering, with the black population nearly through with Detroit-ing Indiana’s largest city. [Indianapolis sending 116 officers to streets, will add 100 more recruits, Indy Star, July 8, 2013]:

City officials are sending 116 additional police officers to street patrol, Mayor Greg Ballard announced today. 

The Department of Public Safety will also fund two classes of recruits in the next two years. 

Each class will be at least 50 officers and will cost an estimated $5.3 million, DPS Deputy Director Valerie Washington said. 

DPS also plans to hire 45 civilians by the end of 2014 to free up officers for street duty, Washington said. 

The cost of hiring the civilians is estimated at $2.7 million.

As you probably anticipated, the 10 Point Coalition (that group of self-appointed black leaders for what represents America’s 13^th largest black community) was upset their organization’s trough was left-empty [Ten Point Coalition Says Council Should Release Crime Prevention $$$, WIBC, July 8, 2013]:

Members of the Ten Point Coalition of ministers say Indianapolis' City County Council are playing politics with $2 million in city funding. 

Rev. Charles Harrison says that money should've already been distributed to various city programs to aid in crime prevention. Harrison was surrounded by numerous ministers during the announcement Monday at 29th & Capitol on the city's near north side. That's the scene of a double homicide this past weekend. 

Harrison and Rev. Clarence Moore say the community really needs $5 million to spend on youth mentoring, job training and community development. Rev. Harrison says he plans to ask the city for $5 million, but council needs to release the $2 million first. Coalition members say the community needs the money now and they anticipate crime will only get worse as summer grows hotter. 

Crime will only get worse as the summer grows hotter? Then if the rise is temperature leads to an inevitable increase in crime (no doubt due to black people’s lower levels of impulse control and future-time orientation), what good would a redistribution of tax-dollars do if they weren’t specifically allocated to putting blacks in climate-controlled rooms for the duration of the summer?

Tim Wise's vision of peace and stability in the absence of white privilege crashed and burned with Detroit; let's try it with Indianapolis...

Maybe forcing ‘youths’ in Indianapolis to take ice-baths at night will lower crime?

No, the reason crime (specifically gun-crime) is getting out of hand in Indy is simply because the city marches toward a day when whites are no longer the majority [Why are Indy’s leaders fighting Indy’s march to be a minority-majority city?, Indianapolis Recorder, June 19, 2013]:

If the trend continues, Indianapolis could be a minority-majority city by the latter years of the next decade. 

Last week, the 2012 Census population estimates for Indianapolis showed that Blacks and Hispanics continue to fuel the city-county’s growth. The Black population since 2010 grew by 8,103 or 3.1 percent to a record 268,920. The Hispanic population also set a record at 89,527, up 5,061 or 6.0 percent. Even the Asian population soared by 10 percent, growing from 1,906 to 20,929.The White population in the city-county grew a paltry 1,063 since 2012; a rise of 0.2 percent to 540,608. 

Blacks are now 29.3 percent of Indianapolis; Hispanics 9.7 percent; Asians 2.3 percent. Add it up and minorities make up 41.2 percent of America’s 11th largest city. 

In 1990, white non-Hispanics comprised 76.5 percent of the city’s population; today just 58.8 percent. 

Between 1990 and 2012, the white population of Indianapolis fell by 69,572; an 11.4 percent decline. During the same period, Black city-county population rose 99,266 or 58.5 percent and Hispanic population exploded 81,077; an almost tenfold increase. 

The march to Indianapolis becoming a minority-majority is inevitable. But Mayor Greg Ballard and his administration, the increasingly clueless leadership of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce and the city’s other white powerbrokers are trying to derail the inevitability of Indianapolis becoming minority-majority. 

Take Ballard and Indy leaders’ push for companies to bring “high-tech” and “high paying jobs” here. Unfortunately, those jobs rarely go to city residents or minorities.Then there’s the mayor and business leaders’ rhetoric about improving schools, especially IPS, so more middle class families with children will move back “into the city.”

It is only white individuals who can collectively create the type of community where "high-tech" and "high paying" jobs can thrive; black individuals only have the collective capacity to create an economy based on payday loans, title pawn, and check cashing stores (sorry to pile it on 74 percent black Birmingham). 

Watching a city die before our eyes is depressing, for it serves as a micro-study of a macro-problem.

Though many good people refuse to acknowledge the reality of their lying eyes, the problems of Indianapolis represent a micro-racial glimpse into a macro-racial problem.

The greater the black population of the whole, the higher the crime (as we learned from a thesis on New Orleans crime), the less is the black population of the whole, the less the crime.

Just as we the media dubbed those pathetic black citizens of New Orleans, left homeless by Hurricane Katrina, as ‘refugees’, so are those white citizens who grew up knowing a peaceful, safe, and economically vibrant Indianapolis… only to be displaced by black citizens and the type of culture/community found wherever they congregate.

Refugees.

69,572 white people left Indianapolis between 1990 and 2010.

Some died.

Many left looking for their own private Idaho, not prepared to understand that no laws exist on the books to keep a city (or state) safe from being Detroit-ed overnight.

But those who left Indianapolis seeking a better life, at some level know the truth: a better life for today, tomorrow, and always represents removing oneself and family from the presence of blacks.

Almost 100,000 more black people call Indianapolis ‘home’ today than did in 1990, and the dramatic increase in crime and the need for greater allocation of police resources to deal with it is directly correlated with this metric.

And there, for all the world to see (and for those refugees of cities like Detroit, Milwaukee, Birmingham, Memphis, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Chicago, Atlanta, Baltimore, etc., who remember the days when they could walk around their communities in peace, without the threat of being robbed or a home invasion taking place) is the reason ‘blight’ exists in America.

We could have been on Mars, but instead white people must continue to vacate the cities their ancestors built because of unacceptable levels of black dysfunction and an inability for elected white officials to protect their communities.

But what would happen if those refugees of Indianapolis, Atlanta, Birmingham, Chicago, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Chicago, etc., (all representing "battles" the historic American nation population lost), stopped looking for the next drifter colony to call home for twenty or so years before an influx of non-whites destroyed the equity they built in their home?

What if the future isn't in America anymore?

What if the future is in Europe, where a resurgent nationalism is fueled by an influx of dispossessed Americans?

 

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