Originally Posted by
gimmick
Murder is up in most American cities.
Is there large scale confusion why a black anti-racist protest movement against police brutality is focused in anti-racism and police brutality related to black people? Sort of how Jewish advocacy groups focus on advocating Jews.
Murder is up in other Democratic-run cities, yes. But the spike is worse in some cities than others. This coincides with the cashless bail system in NY (which has one of the worst spikes in shootings), as well as the COVID-19-related release of violent criminals in all of these places.
So gimmick, if you were thousands of times more likely to die from a violent criminal in your community murdering you than the police murdering you, which problem would you say should be a priority to take care of?
Somehow Democrats believe that racist police are the primary source of murder and unjustified assault against black people, yet that accounts for less than 0.1% of all such violent crime against black people.
Nobody wants to talk about the horrible murder rate in mostly-black neighborhoods, committed by career criminals with an existing long violent history -- guys who should have been locked away a long time ago.
Democrats call it "mass incarceration" to imprison any more than a proportionate population percentage of black people (regardless of how much crime they actually commit), so they will absolutely never advocate longer sentences for these criminals.
The key to saving thousands of black lives per year lies in putting away violent criminals for longer, but the left won't do that. The left doesn't want any reform which punishes anyone besides Conservative Whitey.