A judge in Orange County, California ruled that it’s racist to believe that crime rates differ by race, even though the U.S. Supreme Court has recognized that crime rates differ by race, and the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics has specifically noted that the black homicide rate is higher than the white homicide rate.  This may reflect the false left-wing dogma that crime rates don’t differ by race, and that blacks are incarcerated at a higher rate than whites due to “overpolicing.”

The Orange County judge disqualified a San Diego judge from hearing cases under California’s Racial Justice Act, citing his statement that “There is absolutely no evidence that… the proportion of persons in an ethnicity committing a crime must be the same as the proportion of the population.” In her ruling, Judge Cheri Pham decided that “From his comments, a person aware of the facts could reasonably believe that Judge Shore believes certain racial or ethnic groups commit more crimes than others.” Never mind the fact that certain racial and ethnic groups do in fact commit more crimes than others.

It is hard to reconcile Judge Pham’s ruling with the U.S. Supreme Court’s 8-to-1 decision in United States v. Armstrong (1996), where the Supreme Court said there’s no “presumption that people of all races commit all types of crimes” at the same rate, since that presumption is “contradicted by” real world data.