Editorial re Black Lives Matter

[seminole97]

Would like to see empirical evidence that could back this up

This is from back in June

"To date, 237 people have been nonfatally shot this year in Baltimore, an increase from 129 at the same point in 2014, according to police.
Homicides have increased, too, with 128 people killed in 2015, up from 89 killings at this point last year, police said."

Are you surprised all those murders haven't gotten as much coverage?

Here's the Baltimore Sun's murder tracker:

link

 

[Spearchucker87]

This is from back in June

"To date, 237 people have been nonfatally shot this year in Baltimore, an increase from 129 at the same point in 2014, according to police.
Homicides have increased, too, with 128 people killed in 2015, up from 89 killings at this point last year, police said."

I'm not surprised. It's just human nature. You can't parade around acting like the people charged to protect you are total scum, and lie about events like the Michael Brown shooting (just read the justice Dept report on it) and expect it to not affect how far out of the way those people will go to protect you.

 

[YogiNole]

I seem to have exhausted the number of times I can open the article for free, and I only skimmed it yesterday. But a 3rd reason I can think of is maybe she wanted to highlight that the BLMs might actually end up decreasing safety in black areas. I know it's become a mantra in conservative radio entertainment that crime rates have soared in Baltimore since all the anti-police demonstrations. They imply that police are no longer willing to go above and beyond by-the-book duty for people who are antagonistic to them.

BLM is far from perfect, as is the case with any civil rights movement of its time. It's certainly worth a conversation to explore if there are better alternatives but the military police complex is only offering "get police help but get your young men beaten up, jailed and killed" or "go screw yourself" as solutions.
Most people don't like or identify with BLM but, outside of con radio enthusiasts and LEO apologists, people are beginning to see the situation for what it is - we have created a militarized police state thanks to the failed war on drugs that is incarcerating in record numbers and brutalizing on the streets American citizens, most of whom are young black men. In absence of alternatives, BLM will continue to be the voice of the oppressed.

 

[ReliableOstrich]

What is the goal of the BLM movement?

From BLM:

 

[Spearchucker87]

BLM is far from perfect, as is the case with any civil rights movement of its time. It's certainly worth a conversation to explore if there are better alternatives but the military police complex is only offering "get police help but get your young men beaten up, jailed and killed" or "go screw yourself" as solutions.
Most people don't like or identify with BLM but, outside of con radio enthusiasts and LEO apologists, people are beginning to see the situation for what it is - we have created a militarized police state thanks to the failed war on drugs that is incarcerating in record numbers and brutalizing on the streets American citizens, most of whom are young black men. In absence of alternatives, BLM will continue to be the voice of the oppressed.

I agree, the hamster wheel will continue to spin. With Balimore in particular when you had state's attorney Marilyn Mosby move very quickly in charging 6 police officers (in Freddy Gray's case), a move even Alan Dershowitz characterized as a totally politicized attempt at "crowd control", you reportedly had a plummeting of police morale and most likely a retreat into an 'us against the world' view of policing. Short term political gain resulted in any tenable relationship with certain communities being broken for some time. I wonder, is it only con radio enthusiasts who got to hear BLMs chanting "pigs in a blanket, fry 'em like bacon" (about violence against the police)....does the MSM even cover that negative side, or was it not covered, as is frequently the case with their 'protected groups'? That was certainly an example that BLM groups, just like police forces, aren't all the same and shouldn't be painted with a broad brush. Not all police forces are only offering 2 options. Some are on the whole quite conscientious and professionally run. Not all BLMs are just peaceful voices of the oppressed. Some are advocates and/or perpetrators of violence and hatred.

 

[bobcox47]

Not sure if this will get locked, but a great article on this issue. Curious what everyone thinks. http://www.dispatch.com/content/sto...tes-put-police-in-minority-neighborhoods.html

Black on Black crime has nothing to do with police shootings of unarmed innotcints

 

[seminole97]

"Government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.… Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen. The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom." - Ludwig Von Mises

 

[BellyNole]

Yes, the assumption in this type of post is part of the problem.