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 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 3 comments
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. 10/N |
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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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