Leading Criminologist Heather Mac Donald: The Ferguson Effect Is Real and Deadly
By Robert Golomb
Heather Mac Donald spoke about her book, “The War on Cops”
at the February QVGOP Meeting
“My writings might have drawn the greatest amount of public attention to the term, ‘The Ferguson Effect’, but I am not the one who first used the term. Actually these three words were first coined by Sam Dotson, the chief of the St. Louis {Missouri} Police Department’’, said Heather Mac Donald, whom I interviewed in her upper east side Manhattan office.
Mac Donald, who, focusing mainly on the hot button issues of crime, race, policing and the criminal justice system, has authored two books, written dozens of articles for newspapers and peer- reviewed journals and has frequently appeared on CNN and Fox News, was referring to an article written by Dotson for the St. Louis Dispatch in October 2014 – 3 months after the fatal shooting of 18 year old African American Michael Brown by Ferguson County Missouri Police Officer Darren Wilson.
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