| Separating fact from fiction about the Cuyahoga River fire(s); Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions; Police shootings and race; Heather Mac Donald (Manhattan Institute) guest-blogging about ‘The War on Cops’; | | | | | | | | Police shootings and race | | Does the actual distribution of police victims confirm the Black Lives Matter allegation that policing is lethally biased? That depends on the benchmark chosen for assessing police actions. | | By Heather Mac Donald • Read more » |
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| Heather Mac Donald (Manhattan Institute) guest-blogging about ‘The War on Cops’ | | "Violent crime has been rising sharply in many American cities after two decades of decline. Homicides jumped nearly 17 percent in 2015 in the largest 50 cities, the biggest one-year increase since 1993. The reason is what Heather Mac Donald first identified nationally as the 'Ferguson effect': Since the 2014 police shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, officers have been backing off of proactive policing, and criminals are becoming emboldened." | | By Eugene Volokh • Read more » |
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