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Evanston’s police chief last week condemned last fall’s Northwestern University student protests, saying students violated the spirit of the Black Lives Matter movement and triggered an $88,000 emergency response during a pandemic.
Northwestern “disturbed” by NIPAS threats against student protesters Northwestern released an official statement saying it was “disturbed” by threats of violence toward student protesters by police officers from the Northern Illinois Police Alarm System. The threats — emails and texts by NIPAS officers, made public via Freedom of Information Act requests — included discussions of the use of chemical munitions against protesters on Halloween. Several texts mentioned pava powder, a synthetic riot control agent fired from pepperball weapons. “My trigger finger was jittering,” one...
Policing as a result of this ferguson effect except for one cohort, black cops. backups are 3.3 times more likely to shoot black suspects than white cops. even so, when you look at the crime data, the number of shootings are far below that which would be predicted based on crime involvement. and when you have this false narrative and you have got the protests of all of these things, here is what the consequences are. take a look at the data. despite the dramatic decline in crime rates in 2015, 900 more blacks were murdered than the year before. in 2016, 900 more. so we had 881 blacks killed in...
Less engaged in proactive policing as a result of this ferguson effect except for one cohort, black cops. backups are 3.3 times more likely to shoot black suspects than white cops. even so, when you look at the crime data, the number of shootings are far below that which would be predicted based on crime involvement. and when you have this false narrative and you have got the protests of all of these things, here is what the consequences are. take a look at the data. despite the dramatic decline in crime rates in 2015, 900 more blacks were murdered than the year before. in 2016, 900 more. so w...