[throwaway894345]

> The leading hypothesis for why these [police shooting protests] increase homicides and total crime is an abrupt change in the quantity of policing activity. In Chicago, the number of police-civilian interactions decreased by almost 90% in the month after the investigation was announced. In Riverside CA, interactions decreased 54%. In St. Louis, self-initiated police activities declined by 46%.

This is from a 2020 paper from Harvard’s Roland Fryer and Tanaya Devi: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w27324/w273...

[pGuitar]

It's probably because the number of crimes keep decreasing... not because there is less police officers...

[throwaway894345]

This doesn't make sense. Why would "crimes keep decreasing" explain a surge in "homicide and total crime"? Are you sure you understood the linked paper correctly?