Black Lives Matter protests may affect police violence and murders

Re:Black Lives Matter protests may affect police violence an... by conanbatt on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @06:59PM (#26896456)

This is pretty crazy. If true, murder rates are extremely sensitive to public perception of the system.

This means that the most rudimentary status-quo thought of protecting the police image as an end of itself is actually the most utilitarian position of all.

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Re:Black Lives Matter protests may affect police violence an... by nabla9 on Thursday April 22, 2021 @04:31AM (#26900276)

I don't think this is the most likely explanation. The Article points out various explanations.

The impact on murders and crime seems to be short lived, compared to police homicides. That's also good sign.

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Re:Black Lives Matter protests may affect police violence an... by dec0dedab0de on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @07:12PM (#26896559)

Maybe as faith in the system declines, people are more likely to take matters into their own hands. So some of the murders would have previously been police killings, or arrests.

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