New study tests if “police killings teach lessons that reduce voters’ trust in government.” Finds “pre-election police killings reduce turnout by 3 percentage points in 1 mile radius and reduce Black turnout by 5.9 perc. pts within 1 mile.” https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1532673X221139142

FWIW, another recent paper using pretty much the same data find the opposite: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/contested-killings-the-mobilizing-effects-of-community-contact-with-police-violence/27954D9B6CE408799FCC496460AC0635

.@gregsasso.bsky.social highlights a critique of both this paper and another on the political impact of police killings: https://bsky.app/profile/gregsasso.bsky.social/post/3jwl2ae2jac25