Despite rising crime, Dems had little incentive to shift from 'white racism' narrative until now: expert
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Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Jason Riley says Democrats have little incentive to change their messaging on crime because they got "a lot of mileage" with rhetoric blaming White people for issues within the Black community.
NYPD officers wear masks in Times Square. (Roy Rochlin/Getty Images) NYPD officers respond to the scene of a shooting that left multiple people injured in the Flatbush neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough on April 06, 2021 in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) The NYPD has a new way to measure public sentiment. (iStock) Elders watch from a porch as police officers interact with youth from the community during a block party on Sunday October 5, 2019 at the site of the August Police shooting and hours long stand off that followed, in the Nicetown-Tioga section of Philadelphia, PA. (Photo by Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto) (Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto)
The Democrats’ rhetoric on race and policing has ushered in progressive policies that were implemented in states such as New York over roughly the last two years, as the "defund the police" movement and Black Lives Matter protests and riots spread across the nation.
A recent opinion essay published in the New York Times argued that these reforms, which were theoretically intended to rectify the imbalance of Black Americans who are arrested, convicted and incarcerated, have backfired.