Supporting violence leads to more violence. It seems obvious, but progressives continue to try and convince the public that the opposite is true. A study in the Journal of Urban Economics shows Black Lives Matter protests led to an 11.5% increase in nationwide murders over five years. This amounts to thousands of people who lives apparently did not matter to BLM protesters.
The study looked at how the BLM protests affected police arrests, but it also noted, “The findings of the event study suggest that the BLM protests led police departments to pull back from interactions with the public and obtain body cameras, leading to increased crime and decreased police killings.”
However, while the study notes that fatal shooting by police saved an estimated 200 lives, the reluctance of police to get involved or their inability to respond to calls led to a 12% decrease in property-crime arrests between 2014 and 2019. Also, over that same period reported murders increased about 11.5%, which equates to about 3,000 additional people killed by someone other than the police.
Cops are never charged with murder, so what does this have to do with the BLM protests? All of the pearl clutching nonsense was worrying about “looting” not the murder rate.