A 2020 study from the University of Utah estimates that, from June to July of that year, about 710 more homicides and 2,800 more shootings resulted because of reduced policing.
“The quantitative data and qualitative evidence strongly suggest that a ‘Minneapolis Effect’ has struck—i.e., in the wake of anti-police protests following George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis, police officers are being re-deployed from anti-gun efforts and are retreating from proactive law enforcement tactics. This reduction in law enforcement efforts targeted at firearms crimes has led, perhaps predictably, to an increase in firearms crimes,” the study concludes.
“And the victims of these crimes are disproportionately Black and Brown, often living in disadvantaged and low income neighborhoods.”
When compared to the number of black men who die due to homicide, police shootings of unarmed blacks is very low.
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According to a Jan. 25 report from NPR, police have fatally shot at least 135 unarmed black men and women nationwide since 2o15. As of April 18, 139 blacks had been victims of homicide this year in Chicago alone, according to the Chicago Tribune.
Additionally, a 2019 crime report from the FBI found that, of the 2,906 homicides with black victims that year, 2,574 victims were killed by black perpetrators.
Despite the supposedly existential threat white supremacy poses to African-Americans in the modern era, 246 of those homicides were perpetrated by whites.
Also, only 13 unarmed black men were killed by police in 2019, according to USA Today.
All black victims of violent crime deserve justice, no matter who the perpetrator is. Unfortunately, Black Lives Matter doesn’t believe that to be the case.
To them, the only black lives that matter are the ones taken by white police officers.