id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_nwu55rl3lvbynanapxybkikhbq Neil Gross Is There a "Ferguson Effect?" Google Searches, Concern about Police Violence, and Crime in U.S. Cities, 2014–2016 2017 16 .pdf application/pdf 13444 1087 65 Is There a "Ferguson Effect?" Google Searches, Concern about Police Violence, and Crime in U.S. Cities, 2014–2016 African Americans would lead police officers to be more circumspect in their behaviors in high-crime neighborhoods violence: As the Black Lives Matter movement gained support following protests in Ferguson, Missouri, perhaps police In this article, we examine the association between public concern over police violence and crime rates using Google crime, police, Internet searches, Black Lives Matter While many police departments make crime report data available in real time, the measures of public concern about police violence are not factored into statistical models. Our measure of concern about police violence is the frequency of searches in 43 large U.S. cities for phrases that signal an interest in the topic and/or a personal commitment concern about police violence, as measured by Google search concern about police violence, as measured by Google search ./cache/work_nwu55rl3lvbynanapxybkikhbq.pdf ./txt/work_nwu55rl3lvbynanapxybkikhbq.txt