"Homicides rose sharply in 2020, and rates of aggravated assaults and gun assaults increased as well. Homicide rates were 30% higher than in 2019, an historic increase ... in the sample of 34 cities than the year before."
Posted on February 28 2021
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https://counciloncj.org/news/550859/New-Data-Shows-Sharp-Rise-in-Homicide-in-U.S.-Cities-in-2020.htm
"Homicide rates were higher during every month of 2020 relative to rates from the previous year. That said, rates increased significantly in June, well after the pandemic began, coinciding with the death of George Floyd and the mass protests that followed. Overall, homicide rates increased 30% in 2020, a large and troubling increase that has no modern precedent."
"With so many lives at stake, the time to act is now."
