City Journal interviewed Prof. Michael Fortner, about Black attitudes on crime and policing. Fortner is the author of Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment. “Today, we see a similar gap between what many white experts and liberal elites want for African-Americans and what many black folks want for themselves,” Fortner said. “Last summer, after cities burned in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, elite media, attentive to the claims of Black Lives Matter and radical activists and academics, made it seem as if most African-Americans wanted to abolish the police. While devastated by instances of state violence, most blacks wanted police reform instead of the dismantling of policing agencies.”