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See, this is a completely erroneous statement that derives from a crass stereotype many white people have that most black folks must live in the ghetto around gangbangers. This is utterly false. South side Chicago is not representative of the average black experience, it’s important for white people to know this. Most black people are more afraid of the police than they are of gangbangers, that is a FACT. Most black people will never get caught in an urban crossfire, but they will get stopped/harassed by cops, that is a FACT. So this suggestion that blacks need cops to save them from “black on black crime” is completely silly notion based on a misunderstanding of the average black experience.
These harmful stereotypes you have are honestly indicative of the social discord we’re subsumed in. Some of your earlier points are now making sense to me based on what I gather is your default image of black society.
Also, I’m extremely skeptical of this so called multi state organized joyriding gang made up of 12 to 17 yr olds that somehow has law enforcement befuddled. It does not sound credible at all. Keep in mind there are a lot of myths about crime out there, much of them rooted in racist stereotyping. The knockout game a few years ago comes to mind (see below).
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/3729635
First of all, I don't get your diatribe of "black on black crime". I said more black people were killed by other civilians than by cops, and it's not close. Those numbers multiply when you move down from murder to assault. These are facts, not speculation about the mindset of the community. I'm not making assumptions about where anyone lives. What I said was that all races, black people included, will suffer with a completely neutered police force. YOU extrapolated that into a rant on black on black crime, ghettos, whatever else. Newsflash: middle class and wealthy black people don't want to be robbed by other citizens and not have any police around to deter it from happening.
Maybe you need to do some self examination about your own views since you've projected them on to me a bit? Or at least you've made inaccurate assumptions.
The car stealing is 100% true, it makes zero difference if you are skeptical or not. I would not categorize it as one large organization and didn't say it was. But it's happening throughout the midwest with smaller groups who all brag to each other on social media. Your own bias that everything is a racist plot to make a certain group look bad will of course make you skeptical. These kids happen to be black. There are shitty groups of white kids too. A big group got busted selling drugs in a bunch of high schools up north a couple years ago. I'm sure you'd have no skepticism of that because it was white people breaking the law.