Maddie Hanna, Inquirer Trenton Bureau
Last updated: Monday, November 9, 2015, 11:59 PM
The FBI director has been seen as giving it credence. So has the head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency. And Gov. Christie made his views clear last week, saying in a Fox News interview that “I absolutely believe it’s real.”
The subject of debate: the “Ferguson effect,” a theory that officers are responding to backlash by pulling back from proactive policing, potentially resulting in increased crime.
Christie, making a pro-law enforcement pitch in his Republican presidential campaign, has endorsed the theory, which detractors – including President Obama – say isn’t grounded in evidence.
Obama’s “rhetoric has not been supportive at all of the men and women in uniform around this country,” Christie said Monday at Camden County Police Headquarters. “And it’s his own FBI director who has said this type of conduct has made a chill wind go through law enforcement across this country.
Read more at https://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/20151109_Considering_Ferguson_s_impact.html#8dlVKgbaZIrT8LvM.99
Anyone really care about our absentee governor?
I do. He is the only thing that stands between a bunch of thieves in the Democrat-controlled NJ Senate and the taxpayers.
Well said Declan
For once I Agee with Declan
Fat man Christie is dead in NJ.
News man when did it become acceptable to call him fat. If I called Hillary a cow would you be upset?
What if I called her a liar and her husband a pervert? Is that also acceptable?
It’s ok to call her a liar and Bill a perv.
But it’s not fair to cows to compare them with Hillary.
Be kind to animals