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.

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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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One last thing you should be asking yourself:

"OK, I think I see how increasing police brutality, causes people to trust the cops less. But why does increasing the police presence in a neighborhood almost always mean a big increase in the amount of abuse that Black folk experience?"

Good question🤷🏿‍♂️

9/N

Police don't do what you think they do.🤷🏿‍♂️

Most of what police do, by time, by arrests, by budget, is stop, search, ticket, and arrest people. The people they do this to, are overwhelmingly Black.

By default, more police in a neighborhood, means more policing in a neighborhood.

This is policing.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/police-are-not-primarily-crime-fighters-according-data-2022-11-02/

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And this is the so called "good" policing!

We haven't even talked about asset forfeiture, false arrest, beating, shooting, choke holds, unlawful search, etc.

Adding 100 more officers to a Black neighborhood, without intentional effort to tell those police *not to police*, decreases Black trust. 🙂🙃

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So, if more cops in Black neighbourhoods usually increases the murder rate...

because more cops means more cop violence, abuse, and money being stolen (asset forfeiture) from poor Black folk,

Then what decreases the murder rate?

We've known for at least 40 years. And it doesn't cost $11B a year.🤷🏿‍♂️

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Your city is not more racist than Boston in the 80s.

Not more violent than Boston in the 80s.

Your cops are not more brutal than Boston cops in the 80s.

And this worked there.

Call it "Operation Ceasefire" if you want. Or call it "I dunno... have we tried brutalizing Black men *slightly* less?"

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Biden's, Reagan's and Nixon's approach is: "over-police and abuse 40M Black folk and lock up 2M, most of whom are objectively innocent. Steal $60B from them, keeping them in poverty, and still don't solve any murders or thefts🤡"

The better approach is: "All the violence is done by under 300 people."

A policing strategy that says, "Treat all white people like Jeffrey Dahmer" would clearly be foolish. But one that says "Treat all Black men like Nate Boone Craft," is the status quo. 🙂🙃

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