One thing I particularly enjoy from academics, like the one mentioned in this article is the reduction of certain large-scale problems to one explanation - "systemic racism" - but other problems are just too complex to break down to simple explanations. As the academic in this article says, " “Anybody who thinks they can disentangle all of this probably doesn’t know what they’re talking about.” Yes, it is just so terribly difficult to even begin to untangle this mess. So complex. Let's see, it ballooned suddenly over the last month in our major cities, and our suburban and rural areas also had to deal with economic upheaval and unemplyment, and also COVID, yet are not seeing these sorts of spikes in crime. Hmmmm. This is kind of like how they deal with the precipitous drop in crime in the early-mid 90s. They search oout every answer except the most obvious one. I mean, there's no way that the efforts across the nation to insititute mandatory minimums, three strikes laws, and tougher drug sentences led to fewer crimes, right? Locking violent people up for longer periods of time until they reach the age where recidivism rates drop to zero couldn't possibly explain the overall drop, could they? It's all so difficult and nearly impossible to explain. But when it comes to "disparities," that's easy to explain. Yessir.
Link: https://apnews.com/f84604913630146a6e4d174e581ae615