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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 Black Lives Matter protests on police use-of-force incidents. Campbell found in his analysis, which is...

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 police killings is 'apples to oranges' 

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 tracked more than 1,600 BLM protests across the country, largely in bigger cities, with nearly 350,000 ...

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 of Massachusetts Amherst, released his preliminary findings on the Social Science Research network as...

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 notable impact on police killings. For every 4,000 people who participated in a Black Lives Matter pr...