Einherjar86
Active Member
Ah I see. I'm not saying the demonstrations are a direct cause, ie, people are being murdered via the demonstrations (although this has occurred). I'm saying that when anti-police sentiment is up, cops hole up, which then creates an atmosphere that is conducive to settling scores. Same phenomenon occurred during/after the Ferguson riots.
I get what you're saying, but in the communities you're referring to people have always been hesitant to call the cops, and murder in Chicago has been a worsening problem for years. I can't make the claim that the violence is unrelated to the riots, but it just feels like the connection is so tenuous, unverifiable, and better explained by other factors.
I'm more prone to believe that the crimes and protests are both effects of an increased and overarching sense of panic and uncertainty.
I'm saying that non-profits' function is perverted, structurally, and that this attracts a really bad mix of naive and narcissistic, manipulative people. There's plenty of perverse incentives created in types of for-profit industry as well (like finance, and the current structure of the broader economy in supporting TBTF megacorps is its own issue), but the pressure of profit making acts as a constraint (where this pressure is removed to varying degrees is where you get the most egregious abuses, ie finance).
Again, I understand, but I don't see where the significant evidence is for this. It's true that a lot of money has been going to charities and nonprofits lately, but that doesn't mean they're distributing the funds illegally or even inappropriately. There are cases in which this has been discovered, but they're in the minority.
This strikes me as similar to when I said (to borrow your words) that the police force is perverted, structurally, and that this attracts a bad mix of naive and narcissistic, manipulative people. You objected to that based on available evidence, as I am now re. nonprofits.