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Anonymous wrote:^while everyone bickers over ideology and grabs at $, it is poor black people who are paying the price...why don't black victims matter, only black criminals? How many dead black DC children will be ENOUGH to merit a change of course?

Because some of the folks demanding these types of racial equity analyses don't care about Black people at all. They care about increasing their own power and reach, and anti racism is how they do it. They can say and do anything they want in the name of anti racism. And those who oppose are per se racist.

And they all seem to be from the same party.

They do. And it's my party. It's a feel-good place to be -- getting rid of racism. It doesn't get much better than that, and it's addictive. But when you really drill down into the details, you see that things are not as simple as they seem. And crime is one of them. Yes, there is differential offending. Yes, there is differential victimization. Vulnerable communities of color are more susceptible to victimization than anyone. Equity likely means pouring more police resources into those communities, because, as the racial equity impact assessment says, public safety is a public good, and it is the foundation from which everything else can thrive - housing, education, health, careers.

The answer isn't no police and no punishment. The answer is professional police and right-sized punishments.

Unequal policing of communities is racist. Blacks do not commit crimes at a higher rates than Whites.