Young black men are 25 times more likely to be killed than other populations, but any attempt to discuss possible causes or use technology to determine if different ethnic groups have their own "specialization" in specific types of crime is considered taboo.

I worked as a police officer for 35 years, most of that time in Inner London, where I worked to keep people of all races and religions safe.

I also led Operation Blunt 2, in which the London police were able to reduce the annual number of teen homicides from a peak of 29 in 2008, 26 of which were carried out with knives or firearms, to just eight in 2012, six of which were committed with melee weapons and none with firearms.

Trends in 2007-2012 suggest that the operation likely saved the lives of over 100 teenagers. Not to mention the fact that somewhere else more than 250 of them could be imprisoned - for life, or at least for a long time - for participating in murders, which, as a rule, are associated with a gang showdown. The key tactical aspect of the operation was that specially trained personnel focused on gangs of young black people using a stop and search approach.

It would be wrong not to pay tribute to the then Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, and his Deputy for Police, Keith Moulthouse, who fully supported the police efforts to prevent bloodshed among our youth.

Not much is known about this success.

In today's “awakened” world, we do not dare to speak openly about how it was achieved and who was saved from death or life imprisonment. And those who dare to talk about it risk being censured in the mainstream media, become the target of massive attacks on social networks, harm their career and lose their professional prospects in the future.

So, of course, I take a risk when I tell you about the following: almost all the young people killed in such crimes were black, like almost all their killers, who, perhaps, still, twelve years later, are serving prison sentences ...

It is regrettable, but our then successes were far behind. Today, things are much worse: wars over territory and conflicts over the drug trade have intensified. For context: the death toll in the United Kingdom last year was 671. 97 are black, mostly young men. The population of the country is 67 million people. Black men aged 15-30 are somewhere around 250-300 thousand, that is, less than half a percent. And yet this tiny group accounts for almost 15% of all those killed. Why?

An interesting and shocking detail: the only reason why the death toll among young black men is not higher than the current figures is the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Effective methods of stopping traumatic blood loss were brought to civilian hospitals and ambulances by National Health Service personnel from the Army Reserve who treated our wounded soldiers. Such is the unexpected legacy of these brave people.

The reasons for this, of course, require discussion. It would seem that representatives of the black community should be extremely interested in discussing such a high violent death rate among their youth and trying to find a solution to this problem.

However, such topics are rarely raised: people are afraid that in response they will face outrageous shouts and accusations of racism.

In June, I took part in a TV program where I tried to give some of the reasons I mentioned (you can watch a recording of this here). Mainly, I wanted to convey three points: 1) most of these violent crimes are committed by young black men against other young black men; 2) at the age of three to four years, children raised by one parent (in particular, we are talking about women of Afro-Caribbean origin) need preventive social instruction; 3) Police in London have stopped trying to prevent black youth from carrying firearms and knives because they know it could jeopardize their careers and mortgages. All this, of course, is very depressing.

Movements such as Black Lives Matter, and their supporters, using misinformation, seek to portray the situation as if the problem is with racist white police officers who deliberately persecute and kill innocent blacks. Facts to the contrary are hushed up or ignored: of the 16 people who died last year (mostly from drug overdose) in custody, only one was black.

Only one black man was among the three people shot by the police in the past year.

Young black men are 25 times more likely to die a violent death than other populations. Why?

People of African or Asian descent and other ethnic minorities account for only 14% of the total population of England and Wales, but they make up 25% of the total prison population. Moreover, among minors (including those who are serving a suspended sentence, released on parole, or performing community service), this figure is many times higher. Why?

Perhaps the most glaring example of what can happen to someone who dares to discuss these issues is the recent attacks on former head of the British Commission on Racial Equality, Trevor Phillips. What, then, can everyone else hope for?

Phillips was recently criticized for developing software (used by about a dozen police units in the country) for the [data analytics] company he runs to determine whether different ethnic groups “specialize” in certain types of crime. With this in mind, it becomes quite obvious how great the personal risk is for those who go against the trend of "awakening".

About a month ago, Phillips began to criticize again. This happened after he was invited to take part in an urgent study, the purpose of which was to find out why so many ethnic minorities die from COVID-19, as well as to understand what measures will save as many of their lives as possible. Apparently, it was decided that he was on the wrong side of the race over the race.

More importantly, a consulting firm affiliated with Phillips used the same software to gain insight into why the disease hit the non-white population in the UK so hard. It would seem that there is nothing more commendable and more urgent than this. However, those who feed on various quasi-NGOs and activist associations, those who build their comfortable lives on the problems of non-white families, do not think so. And you know who we are talking about. They make appearances on television every now and then, take part in the work of various committees and conduct seminars, while making a decent living. And if some sane person suddenly dares to go across them, this is immediately perceived as a threat to their way of life, pride and income. So anyone who encroaches on their sacred right to experience righteous anger and resentment will receive a tough rebuff.

In light of what happened to Phillips, it’s just right to ask the following question: “How dare the police use software, with the help of which, perhaps, they will become more effective in performing their functions to protect our entire population, and especially ethnic minorities? " And the irony here is that we constantly hear how the police are urged to work more actively with the "black community" and carry out body searches based on "analyzed information."

However, seeing only a hint that a program could help police identify crime trends, potentially indicating that the typical perpetrator in such cases is non-white, that the majority of those shot and stabbed are black and that their killers are mostly also black, The Guardian and all sorts of ignorant activists began to pedal with renewed vigor the fashionable theme of "institutional racism".

Sometimes I myself wonder when any of them will make a real contribution to reducing the number of murders, instead of throwing accusations at those of us who have the courage to enter this "arena" - how our police enter it.

Perhaps we should expect that many members of the police hierarchy will now become reinsured, and, perhaps, any attempts by proactive investigators to find out, for example, will the software help to find out who is behind the involvement of young people in the drug trade in the cities and villages of our counties from Cornwall to Kent.

God forbid, some computer will show us a disproportionately large share of "travelers" among those who rob the homes of gullible old women and trades in unscrupulous work on the arrangement of access roads and roof repairs. Perhaps he would also have drawn our attention to the fact that Albanians are disproportionately among those who sell women into slavery, and that the film "The Hostage," where Liam Neeson's character rescued his daughter, does not at all resort to racist stereotypes.

We cannot ignore all these realities, we cannot just sweep them under the rug. Here I will end with the statement of Edmund Burke: "For the triumph of evil, only one thing is needed - that good people do nothing."

The author's point of view may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.