for an erection lasting more than four hours. if you have any sudden decrease or loss in hearing or vision, or any symptoms of an allergic reaction, stop taking cialis and get medical help right away. why pause the moment? ask your doctor about cialis for daily use. for a free 30-tablet trial go to cialis.com joining me now to discuss crime and the so-called ferguson effect, peter moskos, associate professor john jay college, former baltimore police officer and the author of cop in the hood, and richard rosenfeld, professor of criminal and criminal justice at the university of missouri st. louis and past president of the american society of criminology. peter you and i were having an exchange on twitter after james comey made these comments saying that i think that the prevalence of video cameras and the protests have changed police officer beaver in a way leading to more crime. defend that position. he raised the possibility of that. he said i don t have data.
for an erection lasting more than four hours. if you have any sudden decrease or loss in hearing or vision, or any symptoms of an allergic reaction, stop taking cialis and get medical help right away. ask your doctor about cialis for daily use and a free 30-tablet trial. joining me now to discuss crime and the so-called ferguson effect, peter moskos, associate professor john jay college, former baltimore police officer and the author of cop in the hood, and richard rosenfeld, professor of criminal and criminal justice at the university of missouri st. louis and past president of the american society of criminology. peter you and i were having an exchange on twitter after james comey made these comments saying that i think that the prevalence of video cameras and the protests have changed police officer beaver in a way leading to more crime. defend that position. he raised the possibility of that. he said i don t have data. we need data. it was a nuanced and thoughtful
approach. if you listen to everything he said, he s an extremely thoughtful man. we ve come a long way from j. edgar hoover. that s a low bar. but he s been saying wonderful things. to pick on that one might be true. lay out the case in let s focus on baltimore. that s the place where you think it s clearest. what is the theory of the case of how protests in the wake of freddie gray produced changes in police behavior that produces increases in crime. less the protests more the video cameras and baltimore bringing charges against six officers or in the worst case scenario, all six officers are probably not guilty. some of them get in trouble for it, get criminally prosecuted for it. it s a reasonable officer that would say screw it. one way we won t get in trouble is if we don t get out of our car. that has an impact on crime.
to more crime. defend that position. he raised the possibility of that. he said i don t have data. we need data. it was a nuanced and thoughtful approach. if you listen to everything he said, he s an extremely thoughtful man. we ve come a long way from j. edgar hoover. that s a low bar. but he s been saying wonderful things. to pick on that one might be true. lay out the case in let s focus on baltimore. that s the place where you think it s clearest. what is the theory of the case of how protests in the wake of freddie gray produced changes in police behavior that produces increases in crime. less the protests more the video cameras and baltimore bringing charges against six officers or in the worst case scenario, all six officers are probably not guilty. some of them get in trouble for it, get criminally prosecuted
crime increase after a decline. and the fbi has information in hand that it could release that would inform this conversation. not only information on crime but also information on arrest rates. if the ferguson effect argument is true, we should be seeing arrest rates going down in cities where we see crime rates going up. for a time we saw that in baltimore. but we need hundreds of cities, not just the dozen or so that reporters have told us about in order to have a sensible conversation. peter, one of the things comey mentioned you talked about being filmed altering police behavior in some ways. i ve got to say, the courts are pretty clear you can do that legally. it s constitutional to film the police. what if that ended up being the case, exercise of constitutional supervision affected behavior in such a way they didn t want to get out of their car. there s part of me that wants to say too bad. this is about moving the