dan_bgblue
07-29-2016, 03:53 PM
Major cities, Chicago, St Louis, and Baltimore are discussed in the article (http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/baton-rouge-drug-enforcement-has-plummeted-since-police-killed-alton-sterling/)
Just like the author, I do not know that any conclusions can be drawn from the statistics, but I do know that the stats are not good and if they are a result of PDs pulling back from placing the LEOs in harms way in the current climate of kill a Cop a day, then the protesters and rabble rousers will have placed their communities in far more risk than they were before they took to the streets and airwaves.
Just like the author, I do not know that any conclusions can be drawn from the statistics, but I do know that the stats are not good and if they are a result of PDs pulling back from placing the LEOs in harms way in the current climate of kill a Cop a day, then the protesters and rabble rousers will have placed their communities in far more risk than they were before they took to the streets and airwaves.