NYT: Black Lives Matter Got 15 Times More Blacks Murdered Than It Saved
America Has Become Both More and Less Dangerous Since Black Lives Matter
May 17, 2023
By Thomas B. Edsall
Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C., on politics, demographics and inequality.
A couple of years ago, Travis Campbell, an economics professor at Southern Oregon University, published a study showing that from 2014 to 2019, Black Lives Matter protests “meaningfully reduced” police homicides. …
In “Black Lives Matter’s Effect on Police Lethal Use of Force,” Campbell wrote:
B.L.M. protests were responsible for approximately 200 fewer people killed by the police from 2014 to 2019. The payoff for protesting is substantial; around six of every 1,371 protests correspond with approximately one less person killed by the police during this period. The police killed about one less person for every 2,500 participants.
Campbell noted in his paper, however, that these gains came with some costs. “Total reported homicides increased by 12.89 percent over the five years following B.L.M. protests, which is consistent with rising overall crime,” he wrote. That increase, he added, amounted to “over 3,000 homicides.”
So Black Lives Matter during the Ferguson Effect era got 15 times as many people killed as it saved. Sounds about right.
America Has Become Both More and Less Dangerous Since Black Lives Matter
May 17, 2023
By Thomas B. Edsall
Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C., on politics, demographics and inequality.
A couple of years ago, Travis Campbell, an economics professor at Southern Oregon University, published a study showing that from 2014 to 2019, Black Lives Matter protests “meaningfully reduced” police homicides. …
In “Black Lives Matter’s Effect on Police Lethal Use of Force,” Campbell wrote:
B.L.M. protests were responsible for approximately 200 fewer people killed by the police from 2014 to 2019. The payoff for protesting is substantial; around six of every 1,371 protests correspond with approximately one less person killed by the police during this period. The police killed about one less person for every 2,500 participants.
Campbell noted in his paper, however, that these gains came with some costs. “Total reported homicides increased by 12.89 percent over the five years following B.L.M. protests, which is consistent with rising overall crime,” he wrote. That increase, he added, amounted to “over 3,000 homicides.”
So Black Lives Matter during the Ferguson Effect era got 15 times as many people killed as it saved. Sounds about right.
