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Heather Lynn Mac Donald (born November 23, 1956) is an American conservative political commentator, essayist, lawyer, and author. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] She is known for her pro-police views and opposition to criminal justice reform.
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 ...
In 2015, Heather Mac Donald popularized the term, the Ferguson effect [citation needed] (an increase in violent crime rates in a community asserted to be caused by reduced proactive policing due to the community's distrust and hostility towards police) [26] [27] when she used it in a May 29, 2015, Wall Street Journal op-ed. [28] The op-ed ...
While a U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics survey found that an estimated 350,000 people reported facing physical force by police each year from 2002 to 2011, data from Mapping Police Violence ...
Of the 28,166 calls for service that occurred in Newport in 2023, 114 were reported as officers using some sort of use of force, a slight decrease from the 126 that occurred in 2022.
For the second time in less than a decade, Barnstable is in the market for a new police chief. Town Manager Mark Ells recently announced the town will soon begin its search for a chief to lead the ...
Ballot Measure 9 is a 1995 documentary film directed and produced by Heather MacDonald. [1] The film examines the cultural and political battle that took place in 1992 over Oregon Ballot Measure 9, a citizens' initiative proposition that would have declared homosexuality "abnormal, wrong, unnatural, and perverse."
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