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But how would this grow support for Republicans within the black community if this actual policing of crime is not taking place in black communities, but is instead taking place for show in places like Georgetown and around the national mall? How does this improve the crime rate in places like Anacostia? It’s not reducing poverty or providing resources and opportunity, which are among the absolute very best and demonstrably proven ways to reduce crime.Who else is going to help them? Certainly not their elected officials for the last 50 years. Also a smart political move by trump to continue to grow support for republicans within the black community.
To me, if Republicans want to improve support from the black community, they should do exactly what the mayor of Baltimore has done to completely turn that city around. But what he has done isn’t to sic police officers on them to beat the hell out of them or to detain them and put them in jail. What he’s done is taking steps to reduce poverty by providing opportunity. If you want to improve Republican support in the black community, I think that would be a great way to start: by actually going into the black communities and instead of turning the police loose on them, provide them with food, provide them with education, provide them with meaningful outlets, provide them with alternatives to stealing and violence.
The problem is, that takes a heck of a lot more hard work and thankless work and it doesn’t really play well on Fox News or on social media because it’s monotonous, tedious, painstaking, boring work. But it’s effective.