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Study: Cities With BLM Protests Had Up To 6,000 More Homicides Than Expected From 2014-2019

Amanda Prestigiacomo
Study: Cities With BLM Protests Had Up To 6,000 More Homicides Than Expected From 2014-2019
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New research shows that cities that held Black Lives Matter protests saw a 10% increase in murders than was expected from 2014-2019.

Preliminary findings from a study conducted by Travis Campbell, a Ph.D. student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, show that cities with protests had “somewhere between 1,000 and 6,000 more homicides than would have been expected if places with protests were on the same trend as places that did not have protests,” from 2014 to 2019, left-wing Vox reported.

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