You know the myth of the zombie. A zombie is a reanimated corpse that lacks consciousness and acts through compulsion or external control. In some tellings, a conjurer hijacks the central nervous system of the corpse and uses it to realize dark and evil aims.
The lies progressives tell are legion, but few are as harmful to American citizens as the ones told about crime and immigration control. We call these “zombie lies” because no matter how many times they’re killed by truth, they’re reanimated by progressives and sent back out to hijack the brains of the living and direct them to speak and act in ways that disrupt a necessary function of good government, namely public safety and national integrity.
The persistence of these lies betrays their political function. For numerous untoward reasons, progressives strive to keep—their proneness to involvement in crime and violence notwithstanding—foreign-born populations in America. And for those native-born populations overrepresented in crime and violence, progressives call forth the zombies to obscure the record of their social policies: the perpetuation of conditions that exacerbate the crime and violence that plague our cities, foremost among them family disintegration and joblessness.
It is therefore necessary to periodically remind Americans that the facts that debunk these lies are already out there. Concerned citizens such as yours truly have killed them many times, only to see them reanimated to stalk the countryside once more. But we remain committed zombie killers, and so we will kill them again. And again.
* * *
It remains true that there is no “systemic racism” in lethal police-civilian encounters. The public needs periodic reminders of this truth. Black Lives Matter was founded on the zombie lie that police officers are more likely to kill black men because of racial bias. A related lie is that many of these deaths involve unarmed black men. Facts and scientific reasoning have debunked these lies.
To take the related lie first, the reality is that around 95 percent of people killed by police had a weapon. However, it must be clarified that being “unarmed” does not necessarily make a man less lethal. “Personal weapons,” i.e., hands and feet, kill more Americans every year than all rifles combined.
To address the other lie, around half of all men killed by the police are white, while less than a quarter of those killed by the police are black. Because blacks are roughly 13 percent of the population, they are around 2-3 times more likely to be killed by the police. To put this another way, blacks are overrepresented in police shootings relative to their population size. However, black men are disproportionately involved in crimes that put them in situations where police encounters are more likely.
In other words, police do not disproportionately kill black men when benchmarks and situational factors are included in modeling variance in the dependent variable. In fact, in some studies, white males are more likely to be killed by police when these variables are entered into analysis. Would we say there is systemic racism against whites in America? Sounds absurd, doesn’t it? That’s because it is.
Think about it this way: Around 95 percent of those killed by police are male. Is this because of “systemic sexism”? No. Obviously. The actual reason is that males are drastically overrepresented in situations that expose them to violent encounters with the police. Nobody has to tell you that. You already know that males engage in violence more than women. It is a fact of natural history.
The persistent beliefs that the police kill black men at a higher per capita rate than white men and that a significant number of such fatalities involve unarmed black men are zombie lies. These claims are not true.
Why do these lies persist? Because progressives lie to their audience. The corporate media assist them in the lie by not telling the public the truth. During the 2020 insurrection that killed dozens of civilians and caused billions of dollars in property damage, the media knew the claims driving the violence were false. They never debunked the zombie lies. Instead, they told the public that the mobs on our streets were “mostly peaceful.”
The Democratic Party played an essential role in pushing the false narrative. The Party lies like a psychopath. Indeed, the Party is psychopathic. It lies about everything.
* * *
Independent databases typically record about 1,000–1,300+ deaths per year at the hands of police. This is for recent years. One compiled dataset reported 1,314 police-related fatalities in 2025. The vast majority of these fatalities are classified as “justifiable homicide.” The exact number of unjustified homicides is difficult to pin down, but we know that it is a small proportion of the total number of fatalities at the hands of police.
The best available estimate of police-civilian encounters (counting people who have at least one contact with police, not every individual verbal exchange) is approximately 50 million police-civilian contacts per year. This is according to the Bureau of Justice.
Should we stop enforcing the law because a small proportion of lethal police-civilian encounters are unjustified? Depolicing increases crime and violence, so it would not be rational to sharply restrict or abolish the police. Crime and violence in America are real problems. Secure communities demand police presence. It is a right to expect safe neighborhoods where people can go about their lives without having to fear victimization.
Police stop active shooters, rescue people from violent attacks, prevent suicides, perform emergency medical aid, and intervene in domestic violence. More generally, studies of policing find that increases in police presence are associated with reductions in crime, especially violent crime. Systematic reviews of focused deterrence strategies find meaningful reductions in serious violent crime. Research on hot-spot policing finds reductions in violent crime in targeted areas.
So why is the small number of unjustified homicides in CBP and ICE operations used as an argument for eliminating border enforcement and deportations? CBP and ICE are law enforcement agencies. Illegal aliens not only engage in crime and violence, but their very presence in our country is often a criminal act in itself. CBP and ICE exist to secure our borders and the safety of our neighborhoods.
The reason for calls to abolish ICE is not because there are fatalities at the hands of law enforcement focused on these tasks. The reason is the political-economic project to drive down wages for native workers, disorganize our communities, and change the demographic composition of the United States for electoral advantage and the denationalization project. The safety of the citizenry is sacrificed for corporate and elite needs.
Progressives don’t care about citizens. They have no problem with keeping in America a population involved in crime and violence. They are responsible for the conditions that exacerbate crime and violence in our cities—family disintegration and joblessness, among other things. They care only about power.
freedom and reason 
Great piece man.