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Standing by? Since BLM started, police have pulled back patrols as was demanded of them. There has now been a massive spike in young black males being murdered,

Standing by? Since BLM started, police have pulled back patrols as was demanded of them. There has now been a massive spike in young black males being murdered, almost certainly linked to the lack of police presence. "We" aren't standing by as those thousands are killed, "we"'re doing as those neighborhoods have demanded. If you've got some awesome solution, I suggest you contact Rahm Emanuel asap.

macintux 9y ago
> police have pulled back patrols as was demanded of them That's an ungenerous interpretation of what BLM and sympathetic parties want. Maybe BLM is demanding the police go away, but most of the rest of us want the police to learn how to deal with people, especially minorities, without shooting them.
PatientTrades 9y ago
> Since BLM started, police have pulled back patrols High murder rates in inner cities have been occurring long before the BLM. Not sure why they are being inserted in this discussion
- merpnderp 9y ago
  Because, exactly like I just said, the rate spiked spectacularlly since 2014. A near 20% increase in the murder rate, almost entirely in inner cities, at the same time police have drastically toned down the extra attention they gave crime ridden neighborhoods, is hard to explain away.
forapurpose 9y ago
> police have pulled back patrols as was demanded of them Can you substantiate this? I've never seen anyone demand that, and I doubt any significant number of people did. Demanding police do their jobs correctly is not at all the same as demanding they stop working. I demand my local police do their job correctly (and as they have some sense of responsibility and pride, they demand the same of themselves); if they did it poorly, I would tell them to do it better, not quit, take their ball and go home like a child. Driving a handcuffed man around in a van until he breaks his back and dies or shooting a 12 year old is bad performance for those officers and organizations. Quitting is not an option for the police; they have responsibilities and need to do a better job.

macintux 9y ago

> police have pulled back patrols as was demanded of them That's an ungenerous interpretation of what BLM and sympathetic parties want. Maybe BLM is demanding the police go away, but most of the rest of us want the police to learn how to deal with people, especially minorities, without shooting them.

PatientTrades 9y ago

> Since BLM started, police have pulled back patrols High murder rates in inner cities have been occurring long before the BLM. Not sure why they are being inserted in this discussion

merpnderp 9y ago
Because, exactly like I just said, the rate spiked spectacularlly since 2014. A near 20% increase in the murder rate, almost entirely in inner cities, at the same time police have drastically toned down the extra attention they gave crime ridden neighborhoods, is hard to explain away.

forapurpose 9y ago

> police have pulled back patrols as was demanded of them Can you substantiate this? I've never seen anyone demand that, and I doubt any significant number of people did. Demanding police do their jobs correctly is not at all the same as demanding they stop working. I demand my local police do their job correctly (and as they have some sense of responsibility and pride, they demand the same of themselves); if they did it poorly, I would tell them to do it better, not quit, take their ball and go home like a child. Driving a handcuffed man around in a van until he breaks his back and dies or shooting a 12 year old is bad performance for those officers and organizations. Quitting is not an option for the police; they have responsibilities and need to do a better job.