They was right...
This paper provides the first empirical examination of the impact of federal and state "Pattern-or-Practice" investigations on crime and policing. For
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"Put plainly, the causal effect of the investigations in these five cities [Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati, Riverside and Ferguson] – triggered mainly by the deaths of Freddie Gray, Laquan McDonald, Timothy Thomas, Tyisha Miller and Michael Brown at the hands of police – has resulted in 893 more homicides than would have been expected with no investigation and more than 33,472 additional felony crimes, relative to synthetic control cities. To get a sense of how large this number is, the average number of fatal shootings of African-American civilians by police officers in Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati, Riverside and Saint Louis, per year, is 12.5. Thus, even if investigations cured these cities of all future civilian casualties at the hands of police, it would take approximately 75 years to “break even.” Our estimates suggest that investigating police departments after viral incidents of police violence is responsible for approximately 450 excess homicides per year. This is 2x the loss of life in the line of duty for the US Military in a year, 12.6x the annual loss of life due to school shootings, and 3x the loss of life due to lynchings between 1882 and 1901 – the most gruesome years."
Investigating the entire department will burden the crime-plagued city.
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Biden just further raised the homicide and felony crime rate in Minneapolis.
"There is no free lunch. If the price of policing increases [in terms of risks to officers], officers are rational to retreat. And, retreating disproportionately costs black lives."