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    1. Rap Game Vader Johan.‏Verified account @GeeDee215 5 Jun 2020

      Rap Game Vader Johan. Retweeted Andrew Sullivan

      Ehhhhhhhh. as far as we can tell, policing has had only marginal effects on lowering crime rates over the past 15 years or so. crime fell EVERYWHERE — in cities that stopped and frisked AND in cities that didn't, in cities in the US, Canada, and Europe. No one knows why.https://twitter.com/sullydish/status/1268918913766744068 …

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      Andrew Sullivan @sullydish
      "Violent crime has reduced markedly in the past few decades." This is the only sentence in an endless piece that acknowledges the huge number of black lives saved by the cops in the last two decades. https://twitter.com/edyong209/status/1268902061313318921 …
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    2. Rap Game Vader Johan.‏Verified account @GeeDee215 5 Jun 2020

      Sharkey said in his book that NYC's crime drop was *larger* than other cities and that might be because of stop-and-frisk, but crime has continued to fall in NYC even after S&F was (mostly) rolled back.

      2 replies 8 retweets 90 likes
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    3. Rap Game Vader Johan.‏Verified account @GeeDee215 5 Jun 2020

      some people believe that removing lead form everything was a major driver of the crime drop. there have been other, uh, colorful theories around abortion access (fewer unwanted children leading to less delinquency) and technology (you can't stick ppl up if they don't carry cash.)

      1 reply 12 retweets 90 likes
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    4. Rap Game Vader Johan.‏Verified account @GeeDee215 5 Jun 2020

      but don't get it twisted: if Sullivan was subjected to the kind of policing the average Black dude in Brownsville is/was, he would rightly see it as the moral catastrophe it is.

      1 reply 13 retweets 143 likes
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    5. Rap Game Vader Johan.‏Verified account @GeeDee215 5 Jun 2020

      but people — white people —  WANT Black people to be policed this way, which why we're still having conversations about the necessity of police and the dangers of NOT INCREASING POLICE BUDGETS at a time when crime is at or near the lowest rates on record.

      5 replies 37 retweets 190 likes
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    6. Rap Game Vader Johan.‏Verified account @GeeDee215 5 Jun 2020

      Sullivan has always been invested in the project of social control/marginalization of Black people. Let's not perfume his motivations.

      4 replies 11 retweets 125 likes
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    7. Woke Mind Bacterium‏ @JimHenleyMusic 5 Jun 2020
      Replying to @GeeDee215

      Sullivan is the truest heir of Marty Peretz's legacy out of that whole generation of TNR alums.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Jun 2020
      Replying to @JimHenleyMusic @UojiM @GeeDee215

      Krauthammer maybe more so but Krauthammer gave up any pretence of being a liberal.

      4:12 PM - 5 Jun 2020
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