Ferguson Effect
Touré, a former MSNBC host and “social justice” author claims that the Ferguson Effect “has been proven by criminologists to be 100% false.”
IN FACT, multiple criminologists have found that the Ferguson Effect is the most likely reason for the 20% murder increase following the 2014 Michael Brown riots and the unprecedented 35% increase following the 2020 George Floyd riots.
Correlation ≠ causation, but these murder surges accord in time and place with widespread fervent BLM activism and no other identifiable causes:
