I see. I haven’t seen the particular data you refer to but anecdotally I haven’t had the sense that there has been any meaningful reduction in black on black killings in gang affiliated areas like Chicago.
Ask yourself, If there was a reduction why would the Floyd incident ramp it up again? You imply the Ferguson Effect has diminished police proactivity. Perhaps so but that implies the police are only putting a bandage on a dysfunctional cultural hemorrhage which doesn’t get to the causal heart of the problem.
I also question, considering the significant number of revenge homicides, that there are only a handful of bad actors or, if so, they are readily replaced like a Hydra’s head.
Perhaps the answer is not only more intense strategic policing but better community policing that doesn’t catalyze the populace into rioting. A negative feedback loop.
Richard, you harken back to the crack wars and violating of basic rights by stop and frisk, advocating slash and burn tactics that put a generation of young black men into crime schools( prisons), leaving black children without fathers and further alienating African Americans from the society at large even if they did initially want most thugs off the street but it became a dragnet catalyzed by “broken windows” poorly executed by gung ho cops.
Yes! It lowered the crime rate, which I alluded to, in my previous response, but at what cost? The cure can be worse than the illness, ya know.
Now, you want pacifist robocops like Sir Galahad, patrolling the ghetto. Well, maybe someday it will come to that, Ha. I can see a Kevlar encumbered constable waddling in chase after a youth tripping over his sagging below the ass pants. Maybe K9’s with rubber teeth.
Brother, I feel your frustration but, I think your draconian approach will cause more civil discord than it proffers to solve. Not a Buddhist but, change comes from within in a pluralistic liberal democracy.
I see. I haven’t seen the particular data you refer to but anecdotally I haven’t had the sense that there has been any meaningful reduction in black on black killings in gang affiliated areas like Chicago.
Ask yourself, If there was a reduction why would the Floyd incident ramp it up again? You imply the Ferguson Effect has diminished police proactivity. Perhaps so but that implies the police are only putting a bandage on a dysfunctional cultural hemorrhage which doesn’t get to the causal heart of the problem.
I also question, considering the significant number of revenge homicides, that there are only a handful of bad actors or, if so, they are readily replaced like a Hydra’s head.
Perhaps the answer is not only more intense strategic policing but better community policing that doesn’t catalyze the populace into rioting. A negative feedback loop.
Richard, you harken back to the crack wars and violating of basic rights by stop and frisk, advocating slash and burn tactics that put a generation of young black men into crime schools( prisons), leaving black children without fathers and further alienating African Americans from the society at large even if they did initially want most thugs off the street but it became a dragnet catalyzed by “broken windows” poorly executed by gung ho cops.
Yes! It lowered the crime rate, which I alluded to, in my previous response, but at what cost? The cure can be worse than the illness, ya know.
Now, you want pacifist robocops like Sir Galahad, patrolling the ghetto. Well, maybe someday it will come to that, Ha. I can see a Kevlar encumbered constable waddling in chase after a youth tripping over his sagging below the ass pants. Maybe K9’s with rubber teeth.
Brother, I feel your frustration but, I think your draconian approach will cause more civil discord than it proffers to solve. Not a Buddhist but, change comes from within in a pluralistic liberal democracy.