'Minneapolis effect': Crime spike follows anti-cop push
Sharp increase in black lives lost as police withdraw
By WND StaffPublished July 2, 2020 at 7:59pm
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Manhattan Institute scholar Heather Mac Donald coined the term "Ferguson Effect" after documenting the spike in violent crime that followed the decrease in policing in response to protests of the death of Michael Brown in an altercation with a white police officer.
Now, a "Minneapolis Effect" already is evident following the demands to defund police in the wake of the death of George Floyd, Mac Donald points out in a column for her think tank.
She cited a a Minneapolis Star Tribune analysis showing shootings in Minneapolis have more than doubled this year compared to last. Nearly half of all those shootings have occurred since George Floyd’s death on Memorial Day, May 25.
"Today’s violent-crime increase – call it Ferguson Effect 2.0 or the Minneapolis Effect – has come on with a speed and magnitude that make Ferguson 1.0 seem tranquil," she wrote.
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