Is the ‘Ferguson Effect’ to blame for the carnage in Chicago?

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Is the ‘Ferguson Effect’ to blame for the carnage in Chicago?
By James Gagliano, opinion contributor — 08/13/18 10:30 AM EDT

We await the newspaper reports and shootings statistics with a sense of foreboding. Just how many young men of color were slaughtered on the streets of America’s “Second City” over the past weekend?

If we didn’t have such empathy for the victims and families they leave behind, there would be Chicago punchlines galore: Progressive mayor who has made no secret of his disdain for aggressive and proactive policing and a municipality with some of the strictest gun laws in the nation succumbs to gun violence as its “new norm.”

Chicago has a population of just over 2.7 million. Last year it suffered a staggering 650 murders, with the “good news” being that those sobering numbers were a 16 percent reduction from 2016. New York City, three times the size of Chicago with some 8.5 million inhabitants, suffered fewer than 300 and saw crime plunge to levels unseen since the 1950s.

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http://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/401545-is-the-ferguson-effect-to-blame-for-the-carnage-in-chicago

[Fishrrman]

Saw an interesting post (that I archived) over at TOS about this subject:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3678648/posts?page=7#7

I didn't write it.
But the guy who did, pretty much called it for what it is.