No War on Cops, No War on Blacks.

POLICE; AFRICAN American social conditions; VIOLENT crimes; BLACK Lives Matter movement; MENTAL illness & society; MURDER; SHOOTINGS (Crime); SOCIAL conditions in the United States, 1980-; TWENTY-first century; SOCIAL history

The article discusses the author's contention that America is not facing a war on police officers or a war on black people, but rather a set of systemic failures as of 2015. Crimes against U.S. police officers are addressed, along with the Black Lives Matter social movement and a potential link between mental illness and violent crime. The killing of black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri is examined, along with murder and the shooting deaths of 28 U.S. police officers in 2015.