Cities with Black women police chiefs had less street violence during 2020’s Black Lives Matter protests

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Cities with Black women police chiefs had less street violence during 2020’s Black Lives Matter protests

Black Lives Matter protests often pitted demonstrators against police − but not in every city. Samuel Corum/AFP via Getty Images by Kayla Stajkovic, University of California, Davis and Alex Stajkovic, University of Wisconsin-Madison Black Lives Matter protests in cities with Black women police chiefs experienced significantly lower levels of violence – from both police and protesters – than cities with police chiefs of other racial backgrounds …