“Just so you know, the same type of thing used to happen in ethnic(Italian, Jewish, etc) neighborhoods in NYC.”
Then they acculturated. They melted into the larger whole of society. They joined the Army or companies and their kids grew up American. As they became more Americanized, they attacked each others with Lawyers instead of guns. (I’m not sure which is better, actually.)
The blacks I have known over the last forty years who moved away from the cities, who joined the military and then the companies where I worked were just like everybody else, except they’d every once and a while have a story about Uncle Reece or little Shaniqua who still lived back in Detroit or Chicago who got shot or went to jail. But I never knew any of the blacks who acculturated who got into trouble with the law.
The blacks I knew from work who either became murderers, one, or were murdered, three, were straight off the local welfare roles and weren’t what I’d call acculturated.
Think about what the Muslim mayor of London said “Terrorism is just part of living in large city”. IOW it is acceptable. Now, if a white guy shot a Muslim in London, the mayor would say something different. He would say “This type of act is unacceptable and will not be tolerated”. See the difference?
The same is true for urban environments. If blacks die at the hands of other blacks, that is considered acceptable. IOW we set the boundaries.
In the old days, cops pretty much stayed out of mob wars so long as they only killed each other.