Haunted by the COVID-19 pandemic s disproportionate impact on black people and reports of police violence against their community, a group of families in the southern state of Georgia have banded together to create a town called Freedom.
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The string of shootings and fatal car accidents that marred an otherwise balmy May weekend in the Garden State could portend a predicted jump in post-pandemic crime, experts said Monday.
There isn t a specific reason why the violence which included shootings in Paterson, Camden and Fairfield Township in Cumberland County clustered together over the last three days. But it didn t shock law enforcement experts, who expect crime to worsen as more Americans emerge from their pandemic-induced hibernation.
There are a number of contributing factors, said Brian Higgins, a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan and former chief of the Bergen County Police Department. These likely include people’s frustration with quarantines, lockdowns and social distancing, mixed with a toxic national atmosphere in the wake of November’s presidential election and the ongoing controversy over the high-profile deaths of Black people in police custod
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Haunted by the COVID-19 pandemic’s disproportionate impact on Black people and reports of police violence against their community, a group of families in the southern state of Georgia have banded together to create a town called Freedom.
“We were watching the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and all of the other people we can name,” said Ashley Scott, one of the effort’s organizers, referring to Black victims of police violence killed last year.
“My friend and I were just depressed and feeling like we needed to be able to do something to protect our husbands and sons.”