The BLM movement has managed to do something both interesting and remarkable, and more complex than it appears. It is rare that government bodies even go through the motions of change in response to protests, and yet that is exactly what has happened. The result is that many aspects of it have become a third rail for liberal people and politicians. What I see is that increasingly, the deaths of innocent blacks by police is being framed as being narrowly the result of police being racists, and that perspective yields a fairly narrow path of response--defunding police is now the popular cry. I think it is natural to want to have a single cause to a problem, but it make take away from our ability to correct the problem. So, lets say that we looked at numbers rather than anecdotes, and assume that we are sitting with a list for the last 10 years of all the deaths of innocents by police, and then ask what is the pattern here. I would suspect that in all the hot spot areas, there is a remarkable number of weapons on the streets, and that there are very few jobs. Might not these also be causal, and not just the racism of police. I suspect movement towards economic opportunities and effective gun control would do more good in the long run than labeling police as racist. And I do understand that police racism is a part of the problem, but if we label it as the only problem, the bigger issues will not be corrected. And I think there is a level of institutional racism in many police departments, but it may be useful to look further. I suspect those arguing to dismantle police unions may have additional agendas, and that the bigger need is attitudinal. I suspect many police departments tend to simply keep replicating themselves, selecting new folks who are just like the ones there now, so that police department folks may change values slower than the rest of the population. It is also worth looking at equipment--you arm them like a warring army and they will act that way more often. Seems like just recently there was a flood of more or less military gear moved from the federal to the state level. Also, the state of our military will effect the nature of our police, for that is a common career path, out of the military and into a police department. Continuous war creates a different mix of vets. And a universal draft would produce a different military and eventually a different sort of police recruit. So, I have touched the third rail, lol.