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Commentary By Heather Mac Donald

MI Responds: Bill Clinton's Response to Black Lives Matter Protesters

Public Safety, Culture Policing, Crime Control, Race

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Clinton’s equation of today’s virulent anti-cop protests with the enabling of criminals is about as visceral and daring a response to the Black Lives Matter movement as one could imagine. It also happens to be accurate. Data-driven, accountable policing and lengthened sentences for violent criminals have saved thousands of black lives since 1994.

And now, as cops back off from proactive policing under the relentless charge that they’re racist for enforcing the law in minority neighborhoods, black lives—including children’s lives—are once again being lost at elevated rates, prompting no outcry or protests from Black Lives Matter. Clinton understands at a gut level the need for vigilant, strong law enforcement. He also knows that the people most hurt by crime are blacks.

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Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute