President Joe Biden, giving the commencement address at Morehouse College, an HBCU in Atlanta, said in part:
You started college just as George Floyd was murdered. And there was a reckoning on race. It’s natural to wonder if the democracy you hear about actually works for you. What is democracy if black men are being killed in the street?
Biden is right about black men being killed in the street. He pointedly forgot to add that nearly all of their killers are their black neighbors.
He could have noted that we had a policing technique which dramatically reduced the murder rate. It was called "stop-and-frisk" or "broken-windows" policing.
We stopped doing it because it was unpopular with the black community which accurately felt targeted. The current policy could be called "feel free to shoot other blacks," though no one will say those words.
Few such killings are solved but the black community mostly does not complain. Thus the politicians don't care.
