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The Police’s Tepid Response To The Capitol Breach Wasn’t An Aberration | FiveThirtyEight
Analysis on police response to protests in US, comparing left-wing and right-wing protest handling.
Source: FiveThirtyEight | 7 January 2021
In the wake of the January 6 insurrection, this FiveThirtyEight report draws on ACLED analysis around police response to protests in the United States and features commentary from ACLED’s Director for Reasearch & Innovation Dr. Roudabeh Kishi, specifically citing ACLED data that showed that, between May 1 and November 28, 2020, authorities were more than twice as likely to attempt to break up and disperse a left-wing protest than a right-wing one. And in those situations when law enforcement chose to intervene, they were more likely to use force — 34 percent of the time with right-wing protests compared with 51 percent of the time for the left. The piece was also featured in a tweet by former US President Barack Obama.
For those who are wondering why so much attention has been focused on the response of the Capitol Police to the Trump-inspired riots, here’s a data-driven article that provides some useful frame of reference. https://t.co/MAdlWGRd23
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) January 8, 2021
