It’s pretty evident it has little to do with the actions of public officials, considering the rise in gun violence is nationwide. Also, some have tried to pin

It’s pretty evident it has little to do with the actions of public officials, considering the rise in gun violence is nationwide. Also, some have tried to pin the rise in violent crime (overall crime is down) to cuts in budgets, but this doesn’t make sense considering that for all The talk the NYPD’s budget wasn’t only not cut, but in fact increased over this period of time. The rise in violent crime across the country, which is still a rise only relative to the historic lows it had reached in the years before the pandemic, likely has a lot more to do with the overall damage to the societal mental health and damages to communities due to the loss and grief experienced by so many over the past year or so. Also, the massive increase in guns over the past couple of years in itself would have led to a predictable rise in gun violence.