Not to get too far off on a tangent, but I think climate data is misinterpreted, minimized, decontextualized, etc. routinely by pundits… so the denial is there. Again, it just isn’t the outright, blatant, flat earth style denial that you seek with this crime data.
And wouldn’t be the outright flat earth style denial the OP suggested… You’re basically agreeing with me, that the type of denial the OP suggests doesn’t really exist
Not sure what you’re saying here. If you’re saying that it is a fallacy to cut the police over low crime if the real reason for the low crime is the current size of the police force, then I agree… yet I don’t see how this counters what I am saying.
I’m saying that there are a whole number of reasons for which “defunding the police” could be the suggested approach - that does need to deny facts; you have assumed out of whole clothe that the motivation is because BLM assume that there is low crime.
Or in other words your arguments requires you to assume BLM is denying the numbers - eg: your argument assumes it’s own conclusion.
Where’s the data showing that police are a net hindrance on decreasing crime? If you are posing this scenario as a hypothetical (“if”), then it is a meaningless one as it assumes an implausible premise regarding the police and crime rates.
You appear to be thinking I’m determining the accuracy. I am suggesting an alternative motivation that doesn’t assume BLM are ignoring data. It may assume something else: that BLM believe that police as they are currently formed are a net hinderance to the crime rate in their neighbourhood. That doesn’t appear any more implausible assumption about what they believe than yours. At best you believe they’re denying one set of data, and this example the deny another - not wholly unreasonable.
The main issue is, unless you can plausibly reason why the only reasonable conclusion for BLM to defund the police is denial - this is mere question begging.
I never said that defunding the police is “predicated on denying crime stats.” What I am saying is that cutting already strained police ranks— for whatever reason OTHER than the current size of police = a net increase in crime (!)— is essentially to deny/ignore/avoid crime statistics
I suggested - and I think fairly - that you’re argument assumes that if BLM did not deny it the crime stats - they wouldn’t call for defunding the police - because you’re using the call to defund the police as evidence of denial. If that’s not the case, then you contradict your own conclusion. Otherwise, it’s fair to characterize it as defunding the police being predicated on denial of stats. Not wholly predicated; but predicated to the degree that it wouldn’t happen without it.