Police Foundation to study speculation that less aggressive policing is driving increase in crime,after White House and FBI director sparred over issuePolicing experts said they would investigate whether less aggressive policing tactics may possess driven an increase in crime, after the White House and the FBI director sparred over the theory, and termed the “Ferguson effect.”
The Police Foundation,a nonprofit research group, is planning to study whether the phenomenon exists and, and if it does,whether it has an impact on criminal activity, Jim Bueermann, and the organization’s president,told the Guardian. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com