Professor Fowles and I explain at length in our paper the reasons for concluding that the 2016 Chicago homicide spike was caused by an “ACLU effect.” Specifically, we discuss an agreement that the Chicago Police Department struck in August 2015 with the ACLU regarding street stops (often referred to as “stop and frisks”). That agreement was implemented in December 2015, and produced about an 80% reduction in the street stops that Chicago police officers conducted during 2016. Our argument is simple: As a result of the ACLU agreement, police significantly reduced the number of street stops they made, leading to more illegal guns on the streets of Chicago, leading to more shootings and homicides. Our paper estimates that the reduction in street stops in Chicago led to about 245 additional victims killed and about 1,108 additional shootings during 2016.
The number injured by gunfire about five times the number killed. Total public expenditures increase, we just pay doctors five times the salary of police, and then they need constant nursing care for a while, instead of very short sporadic stop and frisk.
State cuts pay for California Highway Patrol officers despite contract protections
And as we see he result is union battles. We end up with teachers, nurses and cops fighting over the shrinking pension pie.
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