"The Minneapolis Effect" Spreads Faster Than COVID, Violent Crime On The Rise.
Crime is up across the nation as criminals are taking advantage of the new tone liberals have set. The Defund the Police movement has been great for criminals. Police have lost funding and are under such constant scrutiny that some police are being far less proactive, afraid they may get on the wrong side of public sentiment while doing their jobs. A law professor claims this increase in crime is due to "The Minneapolis Effect."
Paul Cassell, a professor at S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah has researched this increase in crime and wrote a report titled: "Explaining the Recent Homicide Spikes in U.S. Cities: The 'Minneapolis Effect' and the Decline in Proactive Policing."
"At least 11,047 people have died in gun violence so far in 2020, compared to 15,208 in all of 2019. At this rate, 2020 will easily be the deadliest year for gun-related homicides since at least 1999, all the while other major crimes are trending stable or slightly downward."
Cassell believes "law enforcement agencies have been forced to divert resources from normal policing to patrolling demonstrations. And even as the anti-police protests have abated, police officers have scaled back on proactive or officer-initiated law enforcement, such as street stops and other forms of policing designed to prevent firearms crimes."
"In the wake of the antipolice protests surrounding George Floyd’s death, less policing has occurred," he wrote. "...These reductions have resulted from the protests or other attacks on police, as police have (for various reasons) pulled back from aggressive efforts to combat gun crimes. Likewise, law enforcement capabilities have been diminished by reduced funding and other setbacks (such as increased retirements due to demoralization)."
He added that "the consequence of reducing law enforcement activity directed against gun violence has been, perhaps unsurprisingly, an increase in gun violence."
So the Defund the Police movement is really just helping criminals... Is it really ok then to call it a peaceful protest, if all it is doing is inciting violence?