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My longtime friend, former colleague in the USAO, former US District Judge, and now distinguished law professor Paul Cassell takes a look<\/a>.\u00a0 He concludes, “While a new report released today by the Council on Criminal Justice downplays the role anti-police protests played in last year’s unprecedented homicide spike, a decline in pro-active policing following the protests remains the most likely cause.”<\/p>\n

Full disclosure:\u00a0 I am a member of the Council on Criminal Justice (as I believe is Paul), but we’re in the small minority favoring the sober Reagan\/Bush\/Bill Clinton approach to crime.\u00a0 The Council’s Report is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My longtime friend, former colleague in the USAO, former US District Judge, and now distinguished law professor Paul Cassell takes a look.\u00a0 He concludes, “While a new report released today by the Council on Criminal Justice downplays the role anti-police protests played in last year’s unprecedented homicide spike, a decline in pro-active policing following the protests remains the most likely cause.” Full disclosure:\u00a0 I am a member of the Council on Criminal Justice (as I believe is Paul), but we’re in the small minority favoring the sober Reagan\/Bush\/Bill Clinton approach to crime.\u00a0 The Council’s Report is here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-studies"],"yoast_head":"\nWhat Caused Last Year's Huge Spike in Murder? 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