Susan Olzak: Protests reduce police killings, new research shows
Olzak is Emerita Professor of Sociology at Stanford University, where she studies social movements, race and ethnic conflict, and urban violencein protests over police brutality—thousands of marches driven by the assumption that taking to the streets will bring change. Does it?
. Is protest a positive force for progressive change? As a researcher, I set out to find out, focusing on public demonstrations against police violence that occurred years before Floyd was killed.of America’s 170 largest cities between 2000 and 2019 found that street protests were followed by declines in officer-involved fatalities of Black and Latino individuals .
Yet establishing them did not reduce fatalities, my study found. There was no difference in fatalities in cities that had boards and cities that did not. Of the 170 cities in the study, fewer than half had a civilian review board by 2018.
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