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U.S. Homicides Spiking From Police Cuts, Researcher Says, Calls It ‘Minneapolis Effect’

Hank Berrien
U.S. Homicides Spiking From Police Cuts, Researcher Says, Calls It ‘Minneapolis Effect’
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A professor of law at the University of Utah states in a research paper that major cities across the United States are suffering from “dramatic and widespread spikes in homicides” because police funding has been cut.

Calling the trend the “Minneapolis effect,” Paul Cassell, a professor at S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah, asserted:

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