Just The News shares
the results of a report by
The Wall Street Journal's Jason Riley of a study by
Harvard economists.
Just The News is cited because the Riley article is behind a paywall.
Police become skittish following viral, racially-charged police misconduct investigations, leading to reluctance to protect black neighborhoods, according to the to-be-released academic paper by Harvard economist Roland Fryer and co-author Tanaya Devi, reported on by The Wall Street Journal's Jason Riley. The study found that homicides and felonies spike immediately after the reported events in question, crime that hits black communities the hardest.
"When I look at cities in which the investigation was preceded by a viral event,” Fryer told Riley, “homicide goes up considerably. Total crime goes up considerably. ... My estimates show that we lost a thousand more lives, most of them black as well, because of an increase in homicides. ... I never would have guessed that if police stopped putting in the effort, that homicides would change like this."
Riley concludes:
"Scapegoating law enforcement can backfire in ways that do the most harm to our most vulnerable communities."
Ironic, the very people who need the police most, want them the least.
