Black Lives Matter protests "Correlate with a 10 percent increase in murders in the areas that" experienced protests, according to a study reported by the left-leaning website Vox.
The Vox report detailed a non-peer-reviewed study by University of Massachusetts Amherst Ph.D. student Travis Campbell which found that BLM protests tended to correlate with a reduction in police killings and an increase in the murder rate in cities where protests occurred.
Vox reports: There's long been a fierce debate about the effect of Black Lives Matter protests on the lethal use of force by police.
For every 4,000 people who participated in a Black Lives Matter protest between 2014 and 2019, police killed one less person.
From 2014 to 2019, Campbell tracked more than 1,600 BLM protests across the country, largely in bigger cities, with nearly 350,000 protesters.
His main finding is a 15 to 20 percent reduction in lethal use of force by police officers - roughly 300 fewer police homicides - in census places that saw BLM protests.
Omar Wasow, a professor at Princeton University who has done seminal research on the effect of protests, told Vox that the results are "Entirely plausible" and "Not surprising," considering existing protest research.
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Thursday, April 22, 2021
Black Lives Matter Protests ‘Correlate with a 10 Percent Increase in Murders’ in Areas Where They Occur
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