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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 think you're making a Dunning-Kruger error here, particularly in the final sentence. Over-estimating the intelligence/appreciation of nuance and media-awareness of the types of people who tend to commit violent crime.
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.
The police force may attract some of the wrong types of people, but at least they have filters (not always perfect to be sure). I've recently talked with someone who has done work on the psych filtering done for the police and I feel slightly better now than before, although no filter is perfect. But nonprofits aren't even structured in any way to filter against the type of problem I'm referring to. Rather, the structure encourages for selecting for people who will perpetuate the nonprofit and more importantly, divert funds inward rather than outward. This is because nonprofits are functionally barely distinct from pure bureaucracy, and Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy explains the problem.