Figure 1.--A news article reports, "At least five children ages 11 or younger across the country died in shootings over the Fourth of July [2020] weekend, including a "very quiet and sweet little girl" fatally shot while visiting her grandmother in Chicago. That victim, identified by family members as 7-year-old Natalia Wallace, 'joined a list of teenagers and children whose hopes and dreams were ended by the barrel of a gun,' Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot wrote in a tweet. Here are four of those children: from left -- Secoriea Turner, Royta De'Marco Giles Jr., Natalie Wallace, and Davon McNeal. Mayor Lightfoot is all of a sudden comcerned, but she is among a long list of big city liberal Democratic mayors who refised to back ghe polive trying to control the violence and she and the other mayors continie to refuse to back the police. Many like New York mayor Bill DeBasio' in fact have caved into the mob and back efforts to defund the police even in the face of the slaughter of precious childremn like these. One has to ask why are the lives of these and other beaitiful are of less value than criminals like Michael Brown and George Floyd. Just run a Google search on their names and see who comes out on top, the criminals or the innocent children.
The Ferguson Effect was the impact of the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by a Ferguson, Missouri (August 2014). It triggering local riots and a national narrative about murderously eacist police. This nararivevwas picked up and promilgated by the Mainstream Media. The medua ourcry and the failure of liberal politicans in our big cities to support the police, caused offucers to back off from proactive policing in minority neighborhoods. They were told that discretionary enforcement was racially oppressive. The result was that by early 2015, the resulting spike in shootings and homicides had become all too real. It led to an additional 2,000 black homicide victims in 2015 and 2016, compared with the pre-Fergusson 2014 victim numbers. The spike in violent crime unfolding today can be called Ferguson Effect 2.0 or perhaos the Minneapolis Effect. It has arrived with a speed and intensity that make Ferguson 1.0 seems like a bucolic idyll of tranquility. The George Floyd killing by Minneapolis police has caused American cities to erupt in a volcano of contempt against the maintenance of law and order that has no precedent in American history. Not only is the violence widespread, but liberal politicans have refused to back up the police offers trying to vontrol it, basically throwing officers under the bus and endorsing calls to defind the police. And of course the all to predictable has occurred. Violence and mayhem has erupted in one city after another. And the major victims of this incontested violence are African-Americans. The casualties of police shootings largeky criminals and in almost all cases completeky justfified shootings, are now household names. The hihely larger number of black victims who are not criminals, are casualties of this insanity. They are mostly nameless victims of no interest to the Black Lives Matters Movemnent.
Ferguson Effect 1.0 (2014)
The Ferguson Effect was the impact of the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by a Ferguson, Missouri (August 2014). It triggering local riots and a national narrative about murderously eacist police. This nararivevwas picked up and promilgated by the Mainstream Media. The medua ourcry and the failure of liberal politicans in our big cities to support the police, caused offucers to back off from proactive policing in minority neighborhoods. They were told that discretionary enforcement was racially oppressive. The result was that by early 2015, the resulting spike in shootings and homicides had become all too real. It led to an additional 2,000 black homicide victims in 2015 and 2016, compared with the pre-Fergusson 2014 victim numbers.
Ferguson Effect 2.0 (2020)
The spike in violent crime unfolding today can be called Ferguson Effect 2.0 or perhaos the Minneapolis Effect. It has arrived with a speed and intensity that make Ferguson 1.0 seems like a bucolic idyll of tranquility. The George Floyd killing by Minneapolis police has caused American cities to erupt in a volcano of contempt against the maintenance of law and order that has no precedent in American history. Not only is the violence widespread, but liberal politicans have refused to back up the police offers trying to vontrol it, basically throwing officers under the bus and endorsing calls to defind the police. And of course the all to predictable has occurred. Violence and mayhem has erupted in one city after another. And the major victims of this incontested violence are African-Americans. The casualties of police shootings largeky criminals and in almost all cases completeky justfified shootings, are now household names. The hihely larger number of black victims who are not criminals, are casualties of this insanity. They are mostly nameless victims of no interest to the Black Lives Matters Movemnent.
