A St Louis native, Franks said he has lived through a youth of unwarranted hassle from police. But in St Louis, murders had started to climb well before Brown’s death. Dotson stands by his theory, but claims that, in St Louis at least, the Ferguson Effect ended in late 2015, following the first anniversary of Brown’s death. Clinton is in no realistic danger of losing in November to Trump in St Louis County, the million-resident grouping of 90 municipalities including Ferguson. Those campaigning for criminal justice reform remind themselves, however, how worse November’s alternative would be.

Source: The Guardian October 07, 2016 17:26 UTC