they are a lost cause/ Defund the Police is going to lose a ton of people who might have been on the fence.
I don't think that reasonable people see defunding, or dismantling the police departments is a good idea. Yes, there is most assuredly room for improvement, even reform of many LE agencies, but removing them is wrong.
WHITE LIVES MATTERInconvenient facts. More whites are killed by police, proportionately, than blacks.
Obama bears great responsibility for promoting the false narrative.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-myth-of-systemic-police-racism-11591119883?mod=opinion_lead_pos5
the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences:
“no significant evidence of antiblack disparity in the likelihood of being fatally shot by police,”
In 2019 police officers fatally shot 1,004 people, most of whom were armed or otherwise dangerous. African-Americans were about a quarter of those killed by cops last year (235), a ratio that has remained stable since 2015. That share of black victims is less than what the black crime rate would predict, since police shootings are a function of how often officers encounter armed and violent suspects. In 2018, the latest year for which such data have been published, African-Americans made up 53% of known homicide offenders in the U.S. and commit about 60% of robberies, though they are 13% of the population.
Every life matters.WHITE LIVES MATTER
I heard on the radio that contributions to BLM get funneled through a Democrat organization that takes a large chunk off the top. Grant Stinchfield I think did the research on it. A lot goes to salaries.