It has nothing to do with police corruption, and everything to do with the pull back in policing due to anti-police media/BLM narrative. But don’t take my word

It has nothing to do with police corruption, and everything to do with the pull back in policing due to anti-police media/BLM narrative. But don’t take my word for it, just ask the people that live there and who are the victims of such crime: https://www.npr.org/2017/12/31/574824963/baltimore-residents-blame-record-high-murder-rate-on-lower-police-presence https://www.npr.org/2017/12/31/574824963/baltimore-residents... A particularly powerful quote from the article: On whether the community wanted police to back off after the death of Freddie Gray “No. That represented our progressives, our activists, our liberal journalists, our politicians, but it did not represent the overall community. Because we know for a fact that around the time Freddie Gray was killed, we start to see homicides increase. We had five homicides in that neighborhood while we were protesting.” I wonder if the media provocateurs and the liberal journalists will look into this, or perhaps even consider the idea that their narrative has directly lead to the deaths of minorities?