“... but will not be deemed a ‘crisis’ until the targets start fighting back.?”
And that, sir, is coming.
There are two possible outcomes:
- a full race war, where the side that is itching for one is going to be outmanned, or
- a kind of stockade approach, where the Fergusons and E. St Louis's of this country are unpoliced, but outside and around those ghettos there will be very strong (and probably brutal) police presence to prevent the crime from leaking into the law-abiding neighborhoods.
I suspect that the second approach is more likely, at least until the urban yutes do something which cannot be forgiven.