[defrost]

> This cop violence problem is really only a thing in high-crime areas.

All around the world, and all through recorded history the same thing can be seen.

It's more of an interconnected feedback loop.

Distrusted minority areas are over-policed with excess force, more charges are laid (even if actual crime rates are on par with majority less policed areas), people that are over policed act up and push back, reported crime increases.

In the recent history of the USofA there are even examples of state munfactured crime - the CIA famously raised money for off book weapons to foreign fighters by buying cocaine and selling in bulk in minority parts of the USofA.

That was under Ronald Reagan.

[OCASMv2]

50% of murderers are black and most of their victims are other blacks. Pretending like the violent crime problem in minority areas is made up only hurts those communities.

[defrost]

As does a reductionist attitude that normalises over policing and it's knock on consequences reducing a complex issue created by social policy not of a communities making.

[OCASMv2]

Things can't improve until the problem is acknowledged.