Heather MacDonald

It's irrelevant.

These have been happening before there was social media to the same extent.

I've heard a proposal to somehow hold the media companies responsible if they promote the videos that are inevitably taken, the trophy videos of people beating up on innocent passers-by and stripping Apple stores bare.

Again, Americans turn their eyes away from the real problem, which is the failure to socialize

a very large number of overwhelmingly black young people.

That's what we have to focus on.

Although I have to say, I don't want to be too pessimistic here, Georgia, but we've been focusing for decades and not much has changed.

It's up to the parents themselves.

It's up for the community leaders to say, we're sick of this.

Start obeying the law.

Control your kids.

Don't let them run the streets at night.

No, it has let up, but not sufficiently.

And there has not been enough of a discourse that is affirmatively in the opposite direction, saying that the police, there's no organization that cares more about black lives than police departments.

They are putting themselves on the line every single day to try and protect the thousands of law-abiding, hardworking,

Black residents of high crime neighborhoods.

And when the police back off, very predictably, we've seen this again and again after moments of mass hysteria about phony police racism.

Crime goes through the roof.

In 2020, after the George Floyd riots, you had the largest single increase in homicide in this nation's history, 29%.

Everybody's celebrating now that crime is coming down, but it's coming down from an unprecedented high.