There has been much debating of police reform with little action to speak of to follow all of those lengthy, tiresome discussions. The default response is to always claim that redistributing police forces in any way would only increase crime. However, this solely places the blame of the current rise of crime on lack of police forces, while completely neglecting why the police force is all of a sudden understaffed and seemingly unable to reign in violent crime. Well, in order to find out why police are suddenly overwhelmed a good place to start is when crime actually began to rise, and that was in 2014. That's right, six years before the pandemic. Several high profile executions of black people took place over this period of time. The courts and the police ritualistically sided with murderers in all of these cases. Frustrated, representatives from black lives matter ran to the supposedly "liberal" conservative moderate media for help...and they laughed at them. Don Lemon rolled his eyes at the black people he now supports. Everyone in the media did the same. They just ignored black people, continued beating and killing them. Then came covid. Blacks were beaten in NY and other major cities. Everywhere there was chaos. The increase in crime went largely unnoticed until Trump and the Republicans realized they could use it as a talking point in the 2020 election, blaming the increase in crime on black progressives and predominantly black groups like Black Lives Matter, who tend to vote democratic. Tipping the black vote is not so much the goal here; the goal is to make black voters fail to show up at the polls by alienating them with stereotyoes and brute force. Trump painted Black Lives Matter as radicals from the beginning in an attempt to make democrats distance themselves from the group, which they very stupidly did, and cause black people to feel ostracized. Republican senators and representatives did the same, echoing the cry that black lives matter were coming to destroy white suburban America. Unfortunately for Trump, the pandemic was raging out of control and he could not hide the fact that he was at least partially to blame (I would argue totally to blame) for the rise in crime because of his mismanagement of the pandemic. He spread misinformation, stating that masks do not work and that vaccine mandates are unconstitutional. This led to the anti mask and anti vaxx riots you are seeing in government buildings, stores and schools all across the nation. Though Trump failed to push all the blame on black lives matter and he ultimately lost, the damage was done and republicans had their new narrative to attack black America. Now the democrats have all but abandoned programs helping black people; their pitiful Texas "standoff", which was more of showoff if you ask me, and their voting rights bill failed miserably. Democrats now join Republicans in mocking black intellectuals, stating that we went too far with defund the police. Hogwash. First of all, only a few cities even dabbled in defund and not all of those cities saw increases in crime. Further, not every major city saw an increase in crime...at all. In fact, some cities, including Las Vegas, Nevada, had decreases in crime. This creates a much more complex picture than what is being presented by the white majority in this nation. At a time when mental health and political stability is on edge, increasing police force does not work in every situation. What happened when the military attacked villages in the middle east in search of one terrorist? It backfired. It caused hatred of the Americans in that particular village. It caused the people to rebel. The same thing is going on in the ghettos. Increasing police in majority black neighborhoods will not control the crime increase. Black people have been ostracized and so are no longer calling 911 because they fear for their lives. Informants are less likely to speak if they think their liberators will torture or kill them.