Across US, after NYC deaths, a surge of support for police

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1. It's called "the dumbing down of the debate",

and David Crary is doing it in this article, and you're doing it by "re-tweeting" it or reposting it here.

The real debate is with respect to institutionalized racism and violence, and by definition the police are part of an "institution". By definition the police are regulated, their action is regulated. Some crazy gunning down cops, whether a right wing crazy or jihadist crazy or whatever, isn't the issue except that, of course, anyone gunning down anyone should be stopped.

There's a real problem with overt racism in parts of the US. Not in all of the US, but in parts, and fairly large parts at that. How the police have acted, time after time, to harass, arrest, and kill people who aren't of the right skin color, the right ethnicity, the right religion, is a problem. It's an *institutionalized* problem by its very nature, and can be *fixed* with the right remedies. This kind of problem has been fixed before. Nobody can fix the problem of random Jeffrey Dahmer types being incubated, nobody can solve the problem of random crazy people existing. There's a difference between the two kinds of problem!