Saying we need reform is great, but that’s a vague and meaningless statement unless you can come up with specific changes that are actually going to improve public safety in practice. The reforms that went into place after Freddie Gray sounded good in theory, but have been a complete and total failure, and pushing for more reforms in the same direction is not going to improve peoples lives. Just look at the murder rate in the city before and after the reforms, it’s fucking absurd that people just ignore this.

2008- 234 murders 2009 - 240 murders 2010- 224 murders 2011 - 197 murders 2012 - 217 murders 2013 - 235 murders 2014 - 211 murders

2015, the year the Freddie Gray reforms were impromented - 342 murders

2016 - 318 murders 2017 - 342 murders 2018 - 309 murders 2019 - 348 murders 2020 - 335 murders 2021 - 338 murders 2022 - 335 murders

Obviously the real challenge is to address the factors that lead to people wanting to murder each other at such an absurd rate in the first place, but that is almost definitely something that is goin to take generations of work to accomplish if it is possible at all, and in the mean time whatever we’ve been trying to accomplish with the police reforms we have passed have backfired enormously.