The manhunt for the United Healthcare shooter demonstrates something that I've tried to explain many times over the years, and that data shows is true: increasing police presence in a Black neighbourhood, usually *increases* the murder rate in that neighbourhood.🙂🙃
Wait... What?!
Yes. Seriously.
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Because cop shows have been lying to you all these years. CSI is a lie. Even Agatha Christie, Poirot, Columbo, all lies. That's not how murders get solved.
How murders really get solved: someone tells the cops everything: the killer, the motive, the weapon. All the CSI is just to verify the story.🤷🏿♂️
2/N
If no one will talk to you? You. Can't. Solve. Murders.
NYPD budget is ~$11B a year. Larger than Ukraine's military budget was before Russia invaded. Not a typo.
NYPD has 36,000 uniformed officers and 20,000 civilian employees.
Doesn't matter.
3/N
Black people don't call the cops. Black people don't talk to the cops.
So any crime with a large number of eye witnesses, is easier to get away with *if all of the witnesses are Black* 🤯
Black folk don't call the cops, because no matter why they were called, they mess with us when they show up.🙂🙃
4/N
I don't get messed with more than the average US Black man. I almost certainly get messed with less frequently.🙂🙃
I just tell y'all about it when it happens to me.🤷🏿♂️
I am not unique.
Guess what percent of Black men have been the victim of police violence? Guess what percent have been threatened?
5/N
They are still looking for this United Healthcare shooter, because the CEO was a white billionaire. That's at least a small comfort for the loved ones he left behind?
If he had been poor and Black, they probably would have moved on to the next case already.🤷🏿♂️
6/N
People that kill a Black victim have more than 50% chance of getting away with it. Some places it's more than 80%.
The homicide clearance rate is lowest in places where Black people are the most afraid of calling the police.🤯
Name a city with brutal cops that don't care. I'll name a murder-y city.
7/N
Something that has been shown to consistently and effectively reduce the murder rate in a city, is reducing police brutality, over-policing, and abuses like asset forfeiture.
This has worked in LA. East Palo Alto. Pomona. New Orleans. Etc.
Now ask yourself why we don't do this everywhere.
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@mekkaokereke No, what I end up asking is, who is in favor of more police brutality, over policing, and things like that?
Everybody is against that stuff.
Why don't we do it everywhere? Because it's not a simple issue. It's not like there's a light switch to flip to never have police brutality again. Instead, because police are human and humans are going to misbehave, we are forever stuck with it, and we can work to minimize it, but we can't get rid of it.
Why don't we get rid of police brutality everywhere? Because it's impossible. It's not an option on the table.
You list off cities where you say it has worked, but I don't know what you're talking about, having experience in some of those cities, it's definitely not worked.
It sounds like you are promoting this really unrealistic version of solutions that haven't gone the way you think they have.
