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© press Cities with Black Lives Matter protests have seen murder rates soar Murder rates have skyrocketed in cities that facilitated Black Lives Matter protests, new research has revealed. A researcher has found that cities that hosted BLM protests have since experienced a dramatic overall increase in homicides and other violent crimes. Travis Campbell, a University of Massachusetts economics Ph.D. candidate, published his findings in a recent pre-print study examining the impact of Bla...

UMass PhD candidate Travis Campbell published findings in a pre-print study Found that police shootings drop 15% to 20% in cities with large BLM protests That equates to about 300 fewer police shootings nationwide over five years But murder rates rose 10%, an increase of 1,000 to 6,000 additional homicides The exact reason for the increase in murders remains a subject of study Campbell suggests that a decrease in police enforcement could be to blame  He stresses that comparing murders to polic...

Tweet This story was published earlier this month but I didn’t see it until yesterday when the Daily Caller tweeted about it. Vox published the results of a “rigorous academic” study looking at the impact of Black Lives Matter protests on the use of force by police. The results haven’t been peer reviewed yet so take them with a grain of salt. But the research suggests the protests wind up doing more harm than good in the neighborhoods where they happen. From 2014 to 2019, Campbell tra...

Erik McGregor/Getty Images 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. Travis Campbell, a PhD student in economics at the University o...

The effects of Black Lives Matter protests Vox.com 5 hrs ago Jerusalem Demsas © Erik McGregor/Getty Images More than 1,000 people marched through downtown Brooklyn, New York, in November 2019 to protest against police brutality. 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 n...