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Officers around the country are not actively policing. is that a conversation there in st. louis and whats the nature of that conversation? >> yeah, thats been a conversation from the very beginning. there were some talk from some in law enforcement to explain an increase in crime as somehow the ferguson effect. i think if there is a ferguson effect, it is that vital connection, that relationship between community and police, has been broken and damaged. and its very difficult for police to do t...

>> that would have been a question. if that question was asked about any other race, would it be considered racism? >> of course it would. rahm emanuel, the mayor of chicago has just conceded that because of the so-called ferguson effect, the fact that officers are pulling back because theyre afraid of being accused of police brutality and racial profiling, crime has gone up. and the victims are disproportionately black people. the same people that the black lives care movement claims they care ...

>> that would have been a question. if that question was asked about any other race, would it be considered racism? >> of course it would. rahm emanuel, the mayor of chicago has just conceded that because of the so-called ferguson effect, the fact that officers are pulling back because theyre afraid of being accused of police brutality and racial profiling, crime has gone up. and the victims are disproportionately black people. the same people that the black lives care movement claims they care ...

Heres the problem with the so-called ferguson effect. this report from the sentencing project details the lack of credible and con clufsive evidence about the ferguson effect. this chart shows that homicides and violent crimes had already begun to increase before michael brown was killed in august of 2014 and homicide rates had begun climbing in june and violent crimes started escalating in may. richard rosenfeld, a professor at the university of missouri st. louis, wrote this brief and found th...

Justified. for me, for many living in communities of color, these realities, a dead child, no indictment, and report findings about possible justifiable killing cause trauma. the video of his death plays again and again, and were reminded that it is quite possible that no one will ever be held accountable. and yet empathy for this community trauma seemed absent in a meeting last week between dozens of city leaders, top law enforcement officials, and u.s. attorney general loretta lynch in d.c. th...

Ferguson effect, then you believe that the protests over police killings of michael brown and protests like them over other police killings in other cities have led police to back off from doing their jobs and that that has led to a rise in crime. that theory is known as the ferguson effect, and along with it the related youtube effect has been the talk of police officers and politicians for months now. but is the ferguson effect real? do officers hold back from their duties because they fear en...

Criminals. heres the problem with the so-called ferguson effect. this report from the sentencing project details the lack of credible and conclusive evidence about the ferguson effect. this chart shows that homicides and violent crimes had already begun to increase before michael brown was killed in august of 2014 and homicide an rates had begun climbing in june and violent crimes started escalating in may. richard rosenfeld, a professor at the university of st. louis missouri wrote this brief a...

If you believe in the ferguson effect, then you believe the protests over police killings of michael brown and protests like them over other police killings in other cities have led police to back off from doing their jobs and that that has led to a rise in crime, that there is known as the ferguson effect and along with it the related youtube effect has been the talk of police officers and politicians for months now. but is the ferguson effect real? do officers hold back from their duties becau...

Indictments. but it has been nearly a year. a 12-year-old is dead and yesterday we awoke to the news there are expert whos believe his killing was justified. for me, for many living in communities of color, these realities a dead child, no indictment and report findings about possibly justifiable killing cause trauma. the video of his death plays again and again. were reminded it is quite possible no one will ever be held accountable. yet ep think for this trauma seemed ababsent last week betwee...

Credible and conclusive evidence about the ferguson effect. this chart shows that homicides and violent crimes had already begun to increase before michael brown was killed in august of 2014 and homicide rates had begun climbing in june and violent crimes started escalating in may. richard rosenfeld, a professor at the university of missouri st. louis, wrote this brief and found that events in ferguson were not responsible for the rise in homicide in st. louis. and today this report from st. lou...