Unintended conquences

That's what colonialism has brought Britain.  Throughout the ages, Britain colonized many countries whose riches it wanted to plunder.  In doing so, the Commonwealth was created, consisting of many poor, Caribbean, African and South Asian countries which became richer in many ways via Britain's history, governance and infrastructure, but which in other ways became poorer, as Britain looted them.  What did this result in?  It's all documented in 'Caught on Camera', a hugely revealing and at times hilarious look at Britain today through the objective eyes of a vast CCTV network -- more than six million cameras in all.

We've been enthralled with this Netflix documentary series, which consists of a host treating viewers to hundreds of hours arbitrary and unfiltered coverage of the most unimaginable images of crooks and bandits running amok through the country's shops and streets in wanton acts of crime and destruction.

The sheer brazenness of the crimes amazes me.  Gangs storm their way into small shops and large department stores smashing, grabbing and shoplifting their way through in broad daylight -- often using small children to stash items, knowing that underage kids cannot be prosecuted.  

Watching it, I began to notice who most of the crooks were.  It became clear to my eye that approximately 90 percent were people of colour, but mainly Blacks.  "Wow, do that many Blacks now inhabit Britain?!" I asked myself, presuming that because most of the criminals were Black, Britain must now be teeming with folks from Caribbean commonwealth countries.  Now, before anyone screams RACISM! I want to assure you I immediately consulted the neutral and unbiased numbers on google.  

While comprising only 6 percent of the total population, Blacks make up 38.2% of all those incarcerated in Britain.  That's a problem.  I mean something is terribly wrong here.  The unintended consequences to which I refer have been caused, in my unscientific opinion, by the fact that any commonwealth citizen can emigrate to Britain quite easily.  So, Britain has a problem it caused itself by looting all those countries those many years ago because, guess what?  Many of those citizens are now returning the favour.

Ah, karma.  If you don't believe me, watch a few episodes.