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In 2020 America experienced a terrible surge in murder. Why ? - Coggle…
In 2020 America experienced a terrible surge in murder. Why ?
Figures
Chicago
4/5 murder victims = black
9/10 murders = gun
2020 : 787 murders
+56% in 2019 (= 3x Italy rates)
USA
+30% in 1 year
Biggest rise 50 years
Big city + coutryside
So what ?
Great crime decline 1993-2019
2020 : 30% rise
Back to 1998 ?
Joe Biden
Stricter gun control laws
Violence =/= focus
Why ?
Pandemic ?
= lockdown (churches, schools, work, ...)
Gun and alcohol sales +64%
Drug-overdose deads = peak
Violenc = man + nothing to do
Georges Floyd
Cops gathered by protests
Vacuum in high-crime neighbourhoods
Chicago = deadliest week
Loss of trust
Minneapolis effect
Observations
America = exception
Lower crime rates everywhere
Forecasts
Pandemic explaination
Reprieving
Vaccination
Policing crisis explaination
Possible lingering effect