1990s Policing: Overrated or Underrated?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : He has also witnessed the more recent rise of cellphone cameras documenting egregious police abuses, the ascendance of Black Lives Matter (a movement that perhaps saw its influence peak in 2020, in the aftermath of George Floyd's killing), and the dramatic increase in homicides that disproportionately ended Black lives in 2020 and 2021, culminating in a Democratic president who sounds a lot like he did in 1994.
37% : Wide-ranging answers are welcome, whether about the politics of the issue, policy, or the rise and arguable decline of the Black Lives Matter movement.
28% :Of course, merely getting back to the comparably low murder rates of the Bush and Obama years would save many more Black lives than today's status quo, never mind the "defund" approach advocated by the ascendant faction in the Black Lives Matter movement.
24% : Biden talks like a man who believes himself to have solved this problem in 1994, only to have the nation forget what it took:This kind of rhetoric is dismaying to some Democrats, who associate their party's 1990s approach to criminal justice with mass incarceration and police abuses.
20% : "Solid data suggests that even if you take a realistic view of the police, spending money to hire more police officers -- an idea espoused by both Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama -- is a sound approach to the multifaceted problem of criminal justice," Matt Yglesias argues in a 2019 article that goes deep in the weeds.

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