09-21-2020, 07:37 PM
Murder is up everywhere this year:
Do ya think some of it could be related to unemployment and prolonged quarantine resulting from a nonsensical and ineffective response to Covid?
Naahhh.
The New York Times reported recently: “It has been nearly a quarter century since New York City experienced as much gun violence in the month of June as it has seen this year.” (On Sunday, there were at least nine killings in the city.)
An additional 11 cities provide year-to-date murder data. Murder is up 21.8 percent in all 36 cities with 2020 data through at least May, with 29 of those cities seeing an increase this year relative to last year.
Do ya think some of it could be related to unemployment and prolonged quarantine resulting from a nonsensical and ineffective response to Covid?
Naahhh.