Manhattan Institute scholar Heather McDonald makes the case that as a result of a narrative advanced by the Black Lives Matter movement labeling police racists, proactive policing had declined, contributing to a dramatic increase in crime reported in Los Angeles.  Her piece in today's Los Angeles Times documents sharp rises in violent crimes, including homicides, assaults and shootings in many U.S. cities.  As this is going on a bipartisan coalition in Congress is poised to pass a bill that would cut sentences for drug dealers and allow several thousand dealers and habitual felons to be released early from federal prison back into already violent and drug infested cities.  What could possibly go wrong?