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Some commentators have asserted that crime has increased as the result
of recent protests against police misconduct. However, there is no credible
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Does widespread and heavily publicized protest activity
directed at alleged police misconduct result in higher
crime rates? That is the view of some commentators,
who attribute recent crime increases to what has
been termed the Ferguson effect. The idea is that
heightened criticism of the police has demoralized,
angered, frustrated, or otherwise caused police officers
to refrain from vigorous enforcement activity, resulting
in more crime (e.g., Mac Donald 2015).
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REFERENCES
Bureau of Justice Statistics. 2015. Reported crime by
locality (city, county), state, and Nation. http://www.bjs.
gov/ucrdata/Search/Crime/Crime.cfm. Accessed June
11, 2015.
Mac Donald, Heather. 2015. The new nationwide
crime wave. Wall Street Journal (May 29). http://
www.wsj.com/articles/the-new-nationwide-crimewave-1432938425. Accessed June 11, 2015.
St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. 2015. Crime
Statistics: Crime Summary by Neighborhood. http://
www.slmpd.org/crime_stats.shtml. Accessed June 11,
2015.
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