{"id":95682,"date":"2016-05-11T12:12:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T20:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=95682"},"modified":"2016-05-11T12:12:55","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T20:12:55","slug":"the-ferguson-effect-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=95682","title":{"rendered":"The Ferguson Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/05\/murder-spike-cities-fbi-james-comey-223082\">Politico<\/a>: FBI Director James Comey is again sounding the alarm about a surge in murders in several American cities and is publicly complaining that the problem isn&#8217;t getting much national media attention because the victims are minorities who live in particular neighborhoods.<br \/>\n&#8220;I was very worried about it last fall and I am in many ways more worried,&#8221; Comey told reporters during a question-and-answer session at FBI headquarters Wednesday. &#8220;The numbers are not only going up, they&#8217;re continuing to go up faster than they were going up last year. 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