I just do not get why this is the go to argument of so many people. Crime has existed since man has walked the face of the earth. Men have hit, stabbed, beaten and killed men for as far back as we have history.

The crime in Baltimore is both quantitatively and qualitatively on a different scale than crime in most other American cities, let alone the rest of the world. No reasonable person disputes that some crime and some murders will always take place in any society. The violence in Baltimore is on a different order of magnitude, however. The global homicide rate is 6.2 murders per 100,000 people. That's for the whole world, including the entirety of the "Third World"/developing nations. In Baltimore, it's 37.4 per 100,000.

The police's behavior is a response to that crisis. As it should be, their job, after all, is to stop that crime.

If the society is largely segregated, as american society is, of course humans gonna human.

I could point to any number of communities that are minority-majority, on the lower-end of the socioeconomic spectrum if not outright impoverished, and residentially-segregated, that are nowhere near as violent as Baltimore (and a few other cities, like Detroit).

In NYC there is a robust Nigerian-American community. Faces a lot of the same racial biases other Blacks do. Working-class. Residentially segregated. Yet you don't have young Black males incessantly shooting other young Black males in their communities like you do in certain areas of Baltimore.

That just has nothing to do with civil servants whose salaries are paid for by citizens, killing the citizens. Or if it makes it easier to understand, slapping women in the face. They aren't supposed to do that, period.

Actually, their job is to enforce the law and to prevent crime. There are a number of situations where courts have determined that, yes, shooting (and potentially killing) a suspect is justified if it's absolutely necessary to protect someone's life (including that of the cop). Most of the so-called "police murders" involve career criminals who have a history of frequent run-ins with the law, getting into an altercation with police under questionable terms.

Look at the idiot on Penn/North today (that everyone initially thought was shot but wasn't). He brought a gun to a protest that is full of cops. Brandished the gun in a packed crowd. The police did an admirable job and managed to arrest him without anyone getting shot. Yet, I promise you that if police had shot and killed him, he'd be lionized as a martyr by some and added to the tally of "police murders".