After the August 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, anti-police protests and riots began, federal officials and mass media sympathetic to rioters brought heightened scrutiny to police practices, BLM began its career, "Broken windows" policing was curtailed, and police morale plummeted.
One might object that 2014 is an unfairly low baseline against which to compare the ensuing years.
2014 seems a natural starting-point for the analysis, as that was the year of Ferguson and the founding of BLM. But the homicide figures in 2014 represented an historic low, a fact that might make the "Excess" death figures for the ensuing six years look artificially high by comparison.
Even if one were to pick a more typical pre-Ferguson year, the analysis would not be much different.
The 3,818 "Excess" murders of blacks that year alone exceeds Tuskegee's 86-year tally for lynchings of blacks.
Many commentators argue that the big jump in the homicide numbers that year had more to do with the lockdown and the governmental shutdown of the nation's economy than with policy choices urged by BLM. But 2020 was also the year of George Floyd.
His death in police custody triggered a wave of protests and riots more widespread and violent than those seen over the four years before it.
It's becoming increasingly difficult to discern fact from fiction, and unfortunately the media has a strong bias. They spin stories to make conservatives look bad and will go to great lengths to avoid reporting on the good that comes from conservative policies. There are a few shining lights in the media landscape-brave conservative outlets that report the truth and offer a different perspective. We must support conservative outlets like this one and ensure that our voices are heard.
Monday, April 25, 2022
Six years of BLM Killed More Blacks than 86 Years of Lynchings
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