FBI: Record Surge in 2020 Murders

  • Can someone make a map or table showing the per-capita murder rate changes per county, and overlap that with counties that had per-capita effective-law-enforcement-bodies-available changes?

    In other words, if Baltimore lost hundreds of law enforcement officers due to early retirements/police union strikes/"Defund the Police", and also saw a murder spike, I'd want to see that highlighted....and the same for any other city with similar results (which, I suspect, all have similar root causes).

    https://patriotdailypress.org/2021/04/25/police-shortage-cop...

  • Meh, comparing to the 90s peak in absolute numbers makes no sense, and seems disingenuous. 21000 murders now vs 25000 in the 90s is still half, per capita, there are about a hundred million more people here now.