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Obviouslly it doesn't discredit anything; I think the frustration is that crime exacerbated by *underpolicing* is the most dangerous element in a lot of poor/working class neighborhoods where POC disproportionately live
I think it can be disappointing to people who live/have lived in those neighborhoods to see the national conversation constantly cater to whichever event is trending on twitter rather than their neighborhoods' unreported chronic problems, esp if they get attacked for complaining
The same communities are both under- and over-policed. Baltimore averaged 300 murders a year for the last 5 years. Only 418 murder arrests total (over 1,000 murders were unsolved). But there were 456 arrests for gambling and 1,781 for prostitution. https://data.baltimorecity.gov/Public-Safety/BPD-Arrests/3i3v-ibrt …
They are overpolicing a bunch of minor, easy-to-solve offenses while underpolicing actual crime.
Confounding factor: gang/organized crime creates problems in communities adjacent to wealth. Rural US is poor, and there's no sense in trying to rob it. Median household income in the Tenderloin is *higher* than the US average, but nobody calls the TL a wealthy neighborhood
it comes down to a failure to serve those communities, as you say; when those folks see a well-dressed kid in Brooklyn or Beverly Hills or downtown SF tag a Starbucks "fuck police" or "ACAB," they know their community's problems won't be perceived as The Problem anytime soon
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