I find a key component of the debate tragically missing from this article, CRIME.

Over the last two year violent and property crime both rose. I lived through the 1970’s horrendous crime era and the crack epidemic of the 1980’s. For the author to even suggest a crisis exists in “policing” strikes me as ludicrous and wrong-headed.

There is certainly a crisis in “victimhood” and a crisis in academic circles (maybe to create a whole new career field), but here certainly isn’t a crisis in policing that any methodical study of brutality statistics bears out. 2% of all police encounters result in physical confrontation across the nation comes to mind.

Policing is about crime pure and simple. Leave engagement to church’s, work, and sporting events, and leave the police to fight crime. Something that ethnic victim narratives and wrong-headed academic focus hinder in material and damaging ways, by facilitating the increase in violent and property crime.