The racial reckoning murder spree is over

The Ferguson and Floyd Effects are finally over and done with if homicide stats are reliable.

Well, that’s good news. The murder rate in Baltimore is now only slightly worse than in 1977, the year after Taxi Driver, which everybody recognizes as a year of harmony and tranquility.

But it’s worth looking at how bad the Ferguson Effect was in Baltimore, beginning with the Freddie Gray riot April 27, 2015. The Ferguson Effect drove up Baltimore’s murder rate to be even worse than in the crack era of the early 1990s portrayed on The Wire.

As I reported in 2019:

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