The FBI's Latest Report Suggests the 'Ferguson Effect' Is Real

At first glance, the number seems like an error — as if an FBI statistician had accidentally transposed some digits in the bureau's annual report on crime released earlier this week.Alas, anyone who has been paying attention to violence in Chicago knows the FBI didn't make a mistake — the shocking number is accurate. There really were 765 murders in Chicago in 2016. Chicago's annual murder total jumped 86% in the space of two years, evoking memories of the early 1990s crack wars when