Progressive Denial Won t Stop Violent Crime

One possible explanation for the past year s surge of violence would be that we re seeing a sort of national version of what happened in Baltimore. The political climate may have made police reluctant or averse to doing their job, resulting in an under-policing of crime that could be associated with the increase in shootings and homicides. Recent research by the University of Utah s Paul Cassell suggests that decreased policing in some cities last summer was associated with a spike in murders.

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This is called the “Minneapolis Effect.”