I'll Get a Cigarette With My Coffee

Eric Garner was killed by police in New York City. The death caused a flurry of national condemnation of the n wy p d and a conflict between the department and mayor bill de blazio. Researchers wanted to learn what impact it might have actually had on crime in the city. They found that, not surprisingly, the rate of criminal summonses and stop ind frisks and arrests had declined massively during the slowdown. But they also found that civilian complaints of major crimes fell between three and six % during the same period. Civilians reported forty 3 fewer felony assaults, forty fewer burglaries and forty fewer acts of grand larceny.