Posted on 04/22/2021 11:15:01 AM PDT by rktman
There’s long been a fierce debate about the effect of Black Lives Matter protests on the lethal use of force by police. A new study, one of the first to make a rigorous academic attempt to answer that question, found that the protests have had a notable impact on police killings. For every 4,000 people who participated in a Black Lives Matter protest between 2014 and 2019, police killed one less person. [Emphasis added]
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From 2014 to 2019, Campbell tracked more than 1,600 BLM protests across the country, largely in bigger cities, with nearly 350,000 protesters. His main finding is a 15 to 20 percent reduction in lethal use of force by police officers — roughly 300 fewer police homicides — in census places that saw BLM protests. [Emphasis added]
Campbell’s research also indicates that these protests correlate with a 10 percent increase in murders in the areas that saw BLM protests. That means from 2014 to 2019, there were somewhere between 1,000 and 6,000 more homicides than would have been expected if places with protests were on the same trend as places that did not have protests. Campbell’s research does not include the effects of last summer’s historic wave of protests because researchers do not yet have all the relevant data. [Emphasis added]
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“public safety concerns” are only a concern when white people protest, even if/when the protests actually are peaceful and we have to assign to them the perception of a threat such that for them to gather is a psychological menace and therefor not protected by the first amendment.
Seriously, how does Breitbart not know this? The bill of rights only protects minorities. You can’t try to assign negativity to BLM or Antifa’s first amendment rights. That’s dogwhistling white supremacy. sheesh! Where are the censors? Someone call the thought police!
Ironic.
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