Do Police Brutality Stories Reduce 911 Calls? Reassessing an Important Criminological Finding
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DOI: 10.1177/0003122419895254
Abstract: This comment reassesses the prominent claim from Desmond, Papachristos, and Kirk (2016) (DPK) that 911 calls plummeted—and homicides surged—because of a police brutality story in Milwaukee (the Jude story). The results in DPK depend on… read more here.
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