Wednesday, 14 April 2021

The effects of Black Lives Matter protests

The effects of Black Lives Matter protests

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.
Read more: https://www.vox.com/22360290/black-lives-matter-protest-crime-ferguson-effects-murder?source=Snapzu

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