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.
Wait... What?!
Yes. Seriously.
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@mekkaokereke : David Graeber wrote that policemen’s job is not to prevent violence. It is to write a report after the violence happened.