US police & murders of black men

[Woodchopper]

I posted a working paper earlier. It’s now been published as a peer reviewed journal article.

Black Lives Matter’s effect on police lethal use of force
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a ... 9023000578

See this op ed by the author
The dismal tradeoff on police violence in America
https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-ju ... n-america/

tl;dr areas with BLM protests were associated with a 15% decrease in police use of lethal force. This is equivalent to 300 fewer deaths. However it appears that the police partly pulled back from communities and there was an 11% increase in homicides, the equivalent of 3000 deaths.