Urban Heat Islands: Do Heat Waves Trigger Increase in Crime?

Urban Heat Islands. Have you ever heard of this term? Houston's CBS affiliate published this story on June 21, telling us more about the problems urban areas pose during times of great heat waves:

 Andrew Carleton, a professor of geography and a climatologist at Penn State University, warned of smaller, more concentrated zones of elevated temperatures called urban heat islands that contain threats all their own.

“[U]rban areas are becoming places where increasing numbers of people are moving to. The areas are getting bigger, creating an urban heat island effect,” he told CBS Houston. “The buildings and streets trap heat, which contributes to heat waves in urban areas. Mortality rates could particularly increase in [those] areas.”

Let the bodies hit the floor...

Urban Heat Islands. The beauty of an island is that it can be easily blockaded by a naval force, to ensure that no imports or exports are shipped/received; the beauty of an island is that a blockade can ensure that no people leave or go into said island...

Wait, we're just talking about a metaphor, an urban area as an island. Since "urban" is synonymous with minority and Black in American lexicon, anytime meteorologists start predicting heat waves for cities with vibrant, diverse populations like New York City, Chicago, St. Louis, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Memphis, Milwaukee, or Philadelphia, the great fear is that the risk of a "crime wave" rises with each uptick in the Fahrenheit temperature.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported on June 20 that the rise in temperature will be accompanied with an increase in crime:

The heat is back, and so are concerns about violent crime in the region's urban neighborhoods.

From the minute it arrives officially at 7:09 p.m. Wednesday, summer will be cooking - flaring up with record-threatening heat the next few days, maybe making a run at 100 on Thursday.

Summer may be vacation time for most people, but for police in high-crime areas, it's the hot time.

Research in recent years has affirmed that the connection between heat and violent crime is more than lore. Even screening out other factors such as economic conditions, age, and education levels, heat, in itself, has been shown to be a significant contributor to explosive behavior.

In the tinderbox neighborhoods of Philadelphia, Camden, and Chester, where the summer sun soaks into the streets and sidewalks - and the human body - intense heat can be the match that lights the fuse.

At least one study warns that the trend toward hotter summers could brew trouble in the nation's urban areas.

"The discomfort caused by the heat is the best explanation for summer increases in violence," said Craig A. Anderson, psychologist at Iowa State University.

The correlation between increasing temperatures and crimes of aggression is remarkably clean, said Scott Sheridan, a Kent State University researcher who led a major study of crime in Cleveland. "You end up with an almost perfect line," he said.

Based on an Inquirer analysis of national FBI Uniform Crime Statistics, summer is the busiest season for violent crimes, with rates almost 20 percent higher than in winter.

All the urban rioting of the 1960s, including in Philadelphia, occurred in summer.

Wait a second: weren't all those "urban riots" of the 1960s just Black people engaging in a low-level civil war, demanding that their list of grievances be met or else they'd burn cities like Detroit, Watts, Newark, Washington D.C., Cleveland, etc., to the ground?

Wasn't Detroit, once turned over to Black people (and their viceroy of destruction, Coleman Young) in 1973, and basically set on "pre-heat" -- considering that 21,000 people have been murdered there since?

Is there a link between violent crime rising and temperature increases? Perhaps. But is there a study that looks at increases in only the Black crime rate and violent crime (once the heat gets turned up to "bake" in these Urban Heat Islands?), considering that in "urban" areas the violent crime tends to be primarily monopolized by Black people? Or, in the case of Chicago and New York City, Hispanics too.

All things in life are relative: what would happen if you switched the population of Portland (the only people committing crimes there tend to be the less than 10 percent of the city that checks "African America" on U.S. Census form) with Philadelphia's? Would the Philadelphia Inquirer be publishing stories warning about the fear of violent crime rising with the heat? Or would the paper lament that in this thought-experiment, Philadelphia was "in a changing, Philly remains overwhelmingly white."

Kinda like Austin, Minneapolis, Seattle, or Denver; all boasting populations that are less than 10 percent Black (though in the case of Minneapolis and Denver, those Black populations do their best to monopolize all the crime, cold or warm weather be damned).

Wired Magazine and The Atlantic have both published stories discussing the link between violent crime rates rising with rises in the temperature (perhaps this is the reason so many Disingenuous White Liberals fear Global Warming -- the reality of racial differences in impulse control will become to obvious and frequent to censor with the ice caps melting...), but the simple answer is this: it depends on what city and which population within that city you are talking about.

Violent crime committed by Black people in Philadelphia, Chicago, Newark, St. Louis, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Washington D.C., and Baltimore might increase, but it's already at astronomically high rates (compared to the white population) that it's hard to notice a difference.

But cities that are "overwhelmingly" white (does any newspaper ever say Detroit is "suffocatingly" Black... because they should) don't have the same problem with increases in temperature.

It's just an excuse to go outside, play some corn hole and dredge up the ol' Slip 'N" Slide or hit the pool and show off your latest jump from the diving board.

Urban Heat Islands are only a threat when the urban area is occupied by The Blacks, who help perpetuate the very stereotypes that keep white people from moving into the city and gentrifying it (thereby bringing back businesses, safe parks, and quality schools in the process).

World War Z -- Clark Howard's "Zebra: The True Account of the 179 Days of Terror in San Francisco"

"Zebra 2.0: Life in Barack Obama's America" is coming soon

It's a story we aren't supposed to remember. It's a story we aren't supposed to discuss. It's a tale of horror so macabre that not even Oliver Stone himself would dare consider showcasing on film, for natural born killers once roamed the streets of San Francisco and not one looked like the psychotic white racist male straight out of Hollywood central casting.

What happened in San Francisco between 1973 and 1974 - with 14 whites killed and eight others seriously maimed in racial assaults by Black men - didn't attract national attention from Frank Sinatra, Muhammad Ali, or other celebrities like the Atlanta Child Murders did seven years later (as a side, it's obvious Wayne Williams only killed a few - if any - of the 28 Black people that are part of "the list": there was no serial killer loose in the 98 percent Black ghettos of Atlanta during the first part of 1980; it was just Black people doing what they do in every city in America, making their communities unsafe and driving down property value via the standard operating procedure of Blackness).

No, the Zebra Killings (hundreds of other attacks on - and murders of - whites in California at that same time never were solved) were an attempt by members of the Nation of Islam to cleanse white people from San Francisco. It was an undeclared race war.

The book, "The Zebra Murders: A Season of Killing, Racial Madness, and Civil Rights" states:

For six months from October 1973 to April 1974, a string of killings that came to be known by the code name Zebra afflicted San Francisco like a curse. Though little remembered or talked about today, the Zebra murders were among the most violent and prolonged cases of domestic terrorism in the history of the United States. This was not a single catastrophic event. Rather, it was an ongoing wave of random terrorist attacks that ultimately numbered in the two dozen in total and left fifteen dead, eight injured, a population shaken, and a major U.S. city on the brink. 


By my recollection, a small, radical fringe group inside the San Francisco temple of the Nation of Islam, an organization far removed from the Nation of Islam that exist today, committed a series of attacks in what I understood to be an attempt to alienate whites from blacks and instigate a race war.

Prentice Earl Sanders and Bennett Cohen, by publishing "The Zebra Murders" only a few years ago, would have us try and forget that Clark Howard's work "Zebra: The True Account of the 179 Days of Terror in San Francisco" not only predates it by almost 20 years, but it is far superior in describing the terror that gripped Harvey Milk's city. The San Francisco Chronicle reviews "The Zebra Murders" here.

They can also be forgiven, for they try and obfuscate the situation in San Francisco by writing about perceived racism within the police department of the city, as if it was just as injurious to Black cops  - if not more so - than what was actually being done to white civilians by Blacks.

I wrote about the Zebra murders before, comparing the incident to the Atlanta Child Murders in greater detail. The insanity that gripped the nation in regards to the latter, was completely lacking in regards to the former. It's a safe bet that Soledad O'Brien and Don Lemon will refrain from producing a retrospective, investigative report on The Zebra Murders, as they did on Wayne Williams and the Atlanta Child Murders for CNN.

What happened in San Francisco back in 1973-1974 needs to be discussed. It needs to be analyzed. For if you look just beneath the headlines of crime stories around the nation today, patterns begin to emerge that few dare consider.

So, for the next two days, you are invited to share your thoughts with the readers of SBPDL (RamZPaul -- here's hoping you make a YouTube video on the case: no such other documentary/story on the Zebra Killings exists) on the Zebra Killings and Clark Howard's book.

I've said my peace. The floor is yours.

The "Psychological Torture" of Emmett Till: What the Life and Death of Kyser Miree Teaches Us

Emmett Till... Emmett Till... Emmett Till... Emmett Till

In a year from now, the name Kyser Miree will only be remembered by family and close friends. The way he lived his life, his hopes, dreams, and aspirations; well, those will all be recalled when family members gather for holiday events and gaze upon images of Miree captured years before, in moments that make them wish they didn't know now, what they didn't know then.

The post-Civil Rights world we all live in demands that we ignore Black-on-white crime and those murder victims of events that will never, ever be catalogued in some museum documenting Black racial animosity (the inverse is true in our world, where aging white leftists routinely send in checks to subsidize an organization that teaches tolerance to a nation already drowning in it); so Kyser's life and his execution will never, ever grace the pages of a text book designed to make pliable young Black school children feel guilty for existing, nor will public broadcasting put together a 22-minute documentary on his life and death designed to constantly scare white kids of an impending attack by Blacks (the way documentaries on the evil Klan - the anonymous member adorned in the ominous white sheet of doom - and its impending return are used to scare Black kids and plant the seed of guilt into the young white kids mind).

No -- in the world of Black-Run AmericA (BRA), only Those Who Can See will dare state that Kyser Miree's life is worth remembering - besides his parents and friends - and that in his cruel murder, a lesson should reside a tale worth more than being buried under six of dirt.

Four Black males barged into Miree's home in 2010 and held him at gunpoint, demanding money. One of those Black males, Michael Lee, would pull the trigger and end Miree's life. Here's how The Mobile Press-Register is reporting death penalty hearings for Lee:

The last moments of Kyser Miree's life -- as he sat on the floor with three intruders pointing guns at him -- amounted to "psychological torture," a prosecutor told the jury in Michael Lee's capital murder trial this afternoon. 

"He was 100 percent aware of what was going to happen," said Assistant District Attorney Jill Phillips. "He knew he was going to die, and he begged and pleaded for his life." 

That circumstance, along with others surrounding the slaying of Miree, warrant imposing the death penalty on Lee, Miree's convicted killer, the prosecutor argued.
Miree was shot and killed on April 16, 2010 after Lee and three accomplices barged inside his home and demanded money. 

A jury is now deliberating whether Lee should die by lethal injection or spend the rest of his life in state prison. 

The defense told the jury that Lee's difficult childhood and his diagnosed depression and impulse control disorder should count as evidence that Lee needs to be sentenced to life in prison without parole. 

"It's not an excuse for him," said defense lawyer Glenn Davidson. "It's who he is. He has those problems, and they are real." 

Davidson asked the jury to consider mercy for Lee. 

"He acted on impulse," Davidson said. "This was not a premeditated act on his part."
Assistant District Attorney Jo Beth Murphree, though, said that Lee made clear choices in deciding to rob someone that night, arming himself with a powerful .380 handgun and loading it with bullets designed to kill. 

"What kind of mercy did the defendant show Kyser as he was begging for his life?" said Murphree as she showed a photograph of Miree lying in a pool of his own blood.

"Psychological torture." With three guns pointed on him, Miree knew he was going to die. Did those visions from grade school of men in white hoods and that white guilt he was taught to believe in more fiercely than God himself (images of white men operating water hoses, concentrating powerful blasts of H2O upon Blacks in Birmingham and black and white images of nooses around the necks of Black people in some small town) flood his mind in those moments? Did he think of the heroic heights that the Tuskegee Airmen soared to in the later stages of World War II, or did he recall the speeches of Martin Luther King and plea from Rodney King of "why can't we all just get along?"

Or did he look into the eyes of his killers and realize that the real "psychological torture" was the years of being told to ignore Black dysfunction in America, except when he was 24/7/365 indoctrinated that it was all his fault -- and the fault of every white person born before him?

Every white child in BRA undergoes "psychological torture" via academia (starting in grade school) and through constant bombardment by media/entertainment which serves to reinforce the belief that only a white racist - while dressed in white sheets - prepared to lynch Blacks would dare think negatively about The Blacks. Even when those negative thoughts come courtesy of facts, logic, and empirical evidence. Your blue, green, hazel, gold or brown eyes are lying to you about racial differences in intelligence, behavior, impulse control, and maturation; so close them, or else, dictates BRA.

Kyser Miree: Only his family will remember his face

So we are left to wonder what images went through Miree's head as those precious final seconds of his life ticked away, aware that each breath he took was bringing him one-step closer to a brutal death. In those final moments on earth, did Miree finally understand why those hoses and dogs were used in Birmingham?

What we do know is what Miree was like in life, courtesy of friends and family who testified to the jury who will now decide if Lee should get the death sentence:

Kyser Miree was a natural and humble leader, a smart engineer who always needed a project, and a loving, empathetic man who easily made friends with others, according to testimony this morning. 

"People couldn't help but want to be around him all the time," said Pete Dale, Miree's fraternity brother and best friend at Vanderbilt University. 

Friends and family of Miree, who was 23 when he was shot and killed by Michael Lee, tearfully described to a jury their experiences with Miree over the years.
The jury is now hearing testimony in the punishment phase of the trial. The prosecution is seeking the death penalty for Lee. 

Jurors will recommend death or life in prison without the possibility of parole. Circuit Judge John Lockett will have the final sentencing decision. 

Dale said in college, he and Miree enjoyed hunting and fishing together. They would tie canoes to the top of Miree's beat-up truck. In addition to working hard in school, Dale said, Miree worked on side projects -- teaching himself to play guitar one summer, buying a truck to learn how to fix engines and even buying a video of learning how to dunk a basketball in 90 days. 

"It didn't work for Kyser," Dale said, drawing laughter from the courtroom.

This is but a glimpse of a life that was extinguished by one of four Black males who went to rob Miree, only to deprive the world of an engineer; a son; a friend; and ultimately, a white individual whose only real responsibility in BRA is to pay taxes to ensure the proliferation of people like Lee continues unabated.

In a year from now, the name Kyser Miree will only be remembered by family and close friends. But your children; your grandchildren; your brother; your sister; your spouse; your cousin; your deracinated fellow citizen will be told to remember the name Emmett Till.

James Byrd.

Trayvon Martin.

Rodney King.

There will come a day when white America realizes that it owes Black America nothing. On that day, many Black people will shriek about the change of heart; many more will simply say, "What took you so long."

The "psychological torture" that white people are forced to endure from cradle to grave in BRA is powerful; enduring an experience that opens your eyes to the reality of BRA is stronger; understanding that their have been tens of thousands of people whose lives were tragically cut down in a similar fashion to Kyser Miree's and that no documentary will ever be made to memorialize them (simultaneously providing a guilt-trip to Black people) -- well, that's the moment you begin to understand why hoses emitting powerful blasts of water were once used... so that the Birmingham of 2012 would never exist.

Our society is built on lies so fragile, that it requires the continuous "psychological torture"of whites to survive. It has is foundation that will fall.

A Tale of Two Kings

The only legacy of Rodney and Martin Luther King: If we don't get our way, we riot

On the eve of his death, Martin Luther King would give a strange speech that has come to be known as "I've Been to the Mountaintop." After asking a hypothetical question - about which age of man he'd like to live (Egypt, Greece, Rome, Prussia during the time of the real Martin Luther, the Renaissance), he proceeds to answer it thus:

Strangely enough, I would turn to the Almighty, and say, "If you allow me to live just a few years in the second half of the 20th century, I will be happy."

Now that's a strange statement to make, because the world is all messed up. The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land; confusion all around. That's a strange statement. But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. And I see God working in this period of the twentieth century in a way that men, in some strange way, are responding.

Something is happening in our world. The masses of people are rising up. And wherever they are assembled today, whether they are in Johannesburg, South Africa; Nairobi, Kenya; Accra, Ghana; New York City; Atlanta, Georgia; Jackson, Mississippi; or Memphis, Tennessee -- the cry is always the same: "We want to be free."

Lost in the annals of time is that he also would call for a boycott of Coca-Cola in this same speech ("Now, if you are not prepared to do that, we do have an agenda that we must follow. And our agenda calls for withdrawing economic support from you. And so, as a result of this, we are asking you tonight, to go out and tell your neighbors not to buy Coca-Cola in Memphis."), a company whose President - Robert Woodruff - had already gone on all in on the Civil Rights movement and integration, bending over backwards to placate Black people (and forcing - coercing - the white business community of Atlanta to do the same).

But that wasn't enough in the eyes of King (interestingly, Jesse Jackson was present at the speech and would shakedown Coke only 12 years later).

But the question posed by King is worth thinking about: what age would you want to live in? Like the late actor Patrick Swayze, I've long thought that being a Confederate officer fighting for an actual cause would have been an excellent time period to live - and ultimately die - in.

It's funny to think that King would have wanted to live in the second half of the 20th century, one that would provide conclusive proof and mounds of empirical evidence that his dream should be rejected as the rantings of an individual bent on the total annihilation of Western civilization (the more obvious the reality of racial differences become, the more censored public discussion about how policy should be crafted in light of these facts -- isn't that a slight variation of Lawrence Auster's First rule?). One need only look at post-apartheid South Africa, the sorrowful condition of majority Black Memphis, or the Atlanta Public Schools fiasco of 2011 to understand that the dream is nothing more than... a nightmare.

Today, a man whose inability to cooperate with the police in Los Angeles sparked a devastating riot back in 1992 has passed on. At 47-years-old, Rodney King is no longer with us, drowning at the bottom of a swimming pool. TMZ reports:

UPDATE 9:27 AM PT -- According to our sources, King's fiancée is telling friends King had been drinking and smoked weed in the hours before his death.


Rodney King -- the man who was at the center of the infamous Los Angeles riots -- was found dead this morning in Rialito, CA. He was 47.

According to our sources, King's fiancée found him dead at the bottom of a pool.

Law enforcement sources tell TMZ they responded to a call at 5:25 AM PT. We're told they physically removed King from the pool and attempted CPR.

Our sources say he was pronounced dead at 6:11 AM.

Law enforcement sources say Rialto PD will open a drowning investigation, but so far there are no signs of foul play.

Reginald Denny knows the answer of the question King famously asked while the City of Angels burned: "No, we can't all just get along."

This age will end; the tyranny of Black-Run America (BRA) will be broken; and our posterity will learn of two Black men named King, who both lived in the second part of the 20th century -- but whose lives never crossed paths.

They lived (and thrived) during a time period when it was espoused by Disingenuous White Liberals (DWL) in the media/entertainment, academia, and by the government that white people owed an eternal debt to the Blacks, one that could virtually never be repaid -- see The Kerner Report.

In that strange speech given the night before he was murdered, King said, "the cry is always the same: "We want to be free."

It is in the life of Rodney King that we are provided with the ultimate lesson the Civil Rights-era can provide: Freedom Failed.