You’ve got two problems. “Blacks Lives Matter” by itself is only half the issue. The cops and their attitude problem (caused by recruiting marginal guys to be cops over the past forty-odd years) are the remaining issue. The cops in this past year decided that they will just hang out and let nature occur, with robbery and thugism to prove their need to be vigilant and unquestioned.
DC can fix this in a matter of seven days....just let the guns laws free and allow honest people on the street to own and carry weapons...then watch twenty-odd thugs get shot down, and suddenly it’ll get quiet real quick. Once you let people know that riders on the Metro have weapons, and old guys sitting parks have weapons...it’ll be a different and respectful atmosphere.
See, that's actually bullshit since standards have always been pretty good and have only gotten even tougher as the years go by. Out of all the thousands upon thousands of arrests going on everyday, the few anecdotes in comparison to that of police misbehavior are extremely small.