Accuracy in Media

The Washington Post has been collecting data for two years about how many people have been killed in encounters with law enforcement ever since the Michael Brown-Officer Darren Wilson incident that made national headlines. The Post did not mention how the oft-used ‘hands up don’t shoot’ narrative has been debunked, but the recent update admitted […]

The ‘Ferguson effect’ is when police officers are fearful of viral videos and criticism from all corners of the general public and refrain from rushing into danger, generally speaking. Is this to blame for Chicago police’s decline in activity while violence rages almost out-of-control? The Chicago PD is under investigation by the Justice Department. And […]

Is this the ‘Ferguson effect’ due to ‘Black Lives Matter’ demonstrations-riots-violence? ABC News reported the following: Cities across the country suffered an uptick in violent crime last year, according to new statistics compiled by the FBI. There were 1,197,704 violent crimes committed around the nation last year — a 3.9 percent increase from 2014, according […]

The FBI’s James Comey is concerned that police officers are not going to stop crimes due to the “Ferguson Effect” and the data may point to that: The number of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty decreased from 2014 to 2015, according to preliminary data released by the FBI Monday. Forty-one officers […]

FBI released crime data and it appears that the “Ferguson Effect,” where police were reluctant to do their jobs due to potential backlash, may have led to more murders. Photo by rawEarth

The “Ferguson effect” has had chilling consequences for America’s law enforcement: Acting head of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) said Wednesday that he agrees with FBI Director James Comey that the so-called “Ferguson effect” is making police reluctant to do their jobs. The Hill reported that DEA acting administrator Chuck Rosenberg told reporters Wednesday that […]