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The Ferguson effect is an increase in violent crime rates in a community caused by reduced proactive policing due to the community's distrust and hostility towards police. [235] The Ferguson effect was first proposed after police saw an increase in violence following the shooting of Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
The Ferguson unrest (sometimes called the Ferguson uprising, Ferguson protests, or the Ferguson riots) was a series of protests and riots which began in Ferguson, Missouri on August 10, 2014, the day after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by FPD officer Darren Wilson.
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — On Aug. 9, 2014, Michael Brown and a friend were walking in the middle of Canfield Drive, a two-lane street in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Missouri, when a police ...
On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown was killed in Ferguson, Mo., bringing race relations between Black Americans and police to the forefront. On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown was killed in Ferguson ...
Friday marks 10 years since the 18-year-old was killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, turning the St. Louis suburb into the focal point of the national reckoning with the historically ...
Ferguson, Missouri, August 17, 2014. The term was coined by St. Louis police chief Sam Dotson in a 2014 column in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. [6] Dotson said in the column that, after the protests in Ferguson caused by the shooting of Michael Brown that August, his officers had been hesitant to enforce the law due to fears of being charged, and that "the criminal element is feeling empowered ...
A look at how events unfolded in Ferguson, Mo., in the days and weeks after the shooting death of Michael Brown. Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot him, has not been indicted by a grand jury.
Michael Brown Sr. stands in front of the Ferguson Police officers during a 2020 protest marking six years since 18-year-old Michael Brown Jr. was shot dead by the police in Ferguson, Missouri.