" One cost of the Ferguson riots was noted in their wake—a nationwide spike in violent crime, as police across the country retreated under the wave of anti-police hostility. In 2015, America’s 56 largest cities experienced a 17 percent rise in homicides. Several cities with large black populations saw their 2015 murder totals spike even more dramatically—they went up by 54 percent in D.C., 60 percent in Newark, 72 percent in Milwaukee, 83 percent in Nashville, and 90 percent in Cleveland. St. Louis police chief Sam Dotson, referring to the town where Michael Brown’s death took place, attributed the increased criminal violence to “the Ferguson Effect.”29 "

― David Horowitz , I Can't Breathe: How a Racial Hoax Is Killing America