Balko: “Was there a ‘Ferguson effect’ in Baltimore? Don’t be so sure.”
23rd July 2018
This a few thousand words of obfuscation to distract from the fundamental fact that the total number of homicides nationally in 2016 was 20% higher than in 2014, when BLM launched over Ferguson in 8/14. Moreover, many of the worst spikes in murders, such as St. Louis, Baltimore, and Chicago, happened directly following BLM’s biggest victories.
Radley Balko, like George Will, is one of those Crustian sidewallers who can’t stand anybody on the Right who didn’t Pay His Dues working his way up through the ranks of the opinionator drudges as God intended.
If you scratch them deeply enough you will find the same contempt for Flyover Country and ordinary Americans that the John Kerrys of the world wear on their sleeves.