US attorney general tells House there is only ‘anecdotal evidence’ to support view that officers are policing less aggressively in wake of tall-profile police killingsUS attorney general Loretta Lynch said on Tuesday there was “no data” to support the view that law enforcement officers are policing less aggressively because of increased scrutiny of their tactics following a series of highly publicized killings mostly of black men.
Lynch spoke during a House judiciary committee hearing on Tuesday and discussed the controversial theory,termed the “Ferguson effect”, in the wake of the fatal police shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in the Missouri city last year.
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Source: theguardian.com