 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.ππ Wait... What?! Yes. Seriously. 1/N 9 comments
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* π€― Black folk don't call the cops, because no matter why they were called, they mess with us when they show up.ππ 4/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.π€·πΏββοΈ 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.π€― 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. 8/N 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 questionπ€·πΏββοΈ 9/N Police don't do what you think they do.π€·πΏββοΈ 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. 10/N |
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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.π€·πΏββοΈ
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