lol - so people do people think BLM and defund the police actually had a real effect? I’m confused because black people still get murdered by cops all the time

lol - so people do people think BLM and defund the police actually had a real effect? I’m confused because black people still get murdered by cops all the time and I haven’t seen any metros defund their police to levels below what they were in the last five years. Biggest “defund” I’ve seen is not increasing their budget again for the 30th year in a row. Weird political commentators coming into HN. Article has no details on the reasons either. It has no clue. Just quotes stats. Btw - overall crime was down for the year. Violent crime went up 4-5%. Murder was just way higher and of course is a headline and click getter. I wouldn’t be surprised if the majority of the murder was gang related and literally no one except those in gang ridden neighborhoods gives a shit. (So no one because no one cares about the poors)