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Calls to 911 From Black Neighborhoods Fell After a Case of Police Violence

By Quoctrung Bui & Campaign Zero

Insight: In a new paper in the American Sociological Review, the sociologists Matthew Desmond of Harvard, Andrew V. Papachristos of Yale and David S. Kirk of Oxford have drawn a direct link between widely publicized acts of police violence and the number of 911 calls neighborhoods make.

An abandoned home, a magnet for drugs and prostitution, became a target of crime-fighting efforts in Milwaukee.Credit…Darren Hauck for The New York Times
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