BLM has increased crime in black neighborhoods to historic levels
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So what has the real-world outcome been from all these Black Lives Matter policy wins? Well, the nationwide number of police killings of unarmed black men has fallen from 12 in 2019 to just four in 2021. That is good progress.
But these policies have also helped spark a violent crime wave in our nation’s cities, and black neighborhoods have been hardest hit. According to the latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data, homicides rose at the fastest rate in U.S. history in 2020, and they have only continued to rise in 2021. Already, more than a dozen cities have set homicide records this year, and another half dozen are likely to do so before the year ends.
Even before the current crime wave, black people were already far more likely to be homicide victims than the rest of the nation. Even though they make up just over 12% of the population, the 7,777 black people killed in 2019 made up 53.5% of all homicide victims that year. But that number jumped dramatically in 2020 when 9,941 black people were killed, accounting for 55.8% of all homicide victims. That is an additional 2,000 black lives lost last year. That number will most likely be worse in 2021.
If the goal of the Black Lives Matter movement was to stop black people in America from getting killed, then they have failed spectacularly.
The black lives that BLM is most interested in are criminals resisting arrest. It could care less about the lives of black people killed by other black people. There were never any material riots over black-on-black crime. The riots were always about black criminals who were shot resisting arrest. They ignored the fact that the best way to avoid being shot by the police is not to attack the police and not to resist arrest. The results of BLM activity have been to destroy neighborhoods and get more black people killed.
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