Crime jumps after court-ordered policing changes https://www.axios.com/2021/05/14/police-consent-decrees-crime-jump-reforms An Axios review of FBI and Justice Department data on all 12 agencies under consent decrees since 2012 found that seven of them experienced jumps in violent crime rates in two years compared to the two years before they entered into the consent decrees. Seattle saw a 27% surge in its violent crime during that period following its consent decree in 2012. Albuquerque, N.M., a
Crime jumps after court-ordered policing changes https://www.axios.com/2021/05/14/police-consent-decrees-crime-jump-reforms An Axios review of FBI and Justice Department data on all 12 agencies under consent decrees since 2012 found that seven of them experienced jumps in violent crime rates in two years compared to the two years before they entered into the consent decrees. Seattle saw a 27% surge in its violent crime during that period following its consent decree in 2012. Albuquerque, N.M., a