The left acknowledges problematic black behavior sometimes, denies it other times.

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[–]aukofthecovenantWhite man with eyes 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

What causes them to go one way or the other with it on different issues?

Simple - can it be used to guilt-trip white people into supporting leftist policies? Example:

Sometimes, the left will admit that many blacks act badly, but blame the behavior on 'the system of white supremacy'.

White people who fall for this will feel guilt, thus making them more useful tools of leftism. Whereas:

Such as denying black-on-white violence. Or denying black abuse of social welfare programs.

No one wants to support violent criminals or welfare leeches per se. They can be duped into doing so for other reasons, but putting criminal violence or welfare fraud front-and-center is a losing strategy. So the left tends not to do it.

The thing to keep in mind is that blacks, being only ~13% of the US population, cannot get what they want in a straight-up vote unless its something that many (more than (50-13)/87 = 42.5% of) non-blacks will go along with. They have every incentive to whip up white sympathy, and unjustified sympathy will do if it produces votes.