"Black on black crime" is irrelevant in this discussion. Violent, racist policing has never been ABOUT fighting "black on black crime"-a consistent thing you hear from the black community is that the cops are in black neighborhoods collectively brutalizing the community on a continual basis-and then NEVER show up when people in those communities actually call to report crimes. The black community has spent decades doing all it can to fight black on black crime-that community has never been indifferent to that issue.

It's just that hardline policing does nothing to combat black on black racism, and the one thing that would make a major difference in that and in violent crime in most other communities...legalizing drugs-which would end the drug trade and end virtually all violence associated with drugs- while treating drug use not as a crime-it's always been pointless to arrest people simply for using drugs and incarceration has been shown to be staggeringly ineffective in getting people off drugs-but as a social and health issue, has been kept off the political agenda for decades by the "law and order" crowd.

Legalize drugs, treat drug use as a socail and health issue rather than as a criminal justice/law enforcement/ prison-industrial complex issue-and most if not all "black on black crime", as well as the majority of violent crime in all groups, comes to an end.