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That's part of the story. What has happened to violent crime rates since June 2020 in the US? I'll leave that as a googling exercise but something tells me you
by chitowneats 4y ago
That's part of the story. What has happened to violent crime rates since June 2020 in the US? I'll leave that as a googling exercise but something tells me you already know and are hand-waving.
- not2b 4y agoYou are cherry-picking an endpoint. June 2020 was close to the height of Covid restrictions. Climate change deniers pulled a similar trick, choosing 1998 as an endpoint because it was an unusually hot year.
- chitowneats 4y agoI am identifying the beginning of a trend of increasing violent crime. It is still increasing. Murders are higher in 2022 than they were in 2021, which were higher than they were in 2020, in most American cities. Nowhere else in the world had a crime spike like the U.S. Covid restrictions surely exacerbated the situation but they are not the cause.