The Biden-Harris Administration should fund actionable, evidence-based programs for law enforcement, crime laboratories, community organizations, disaster response, and robust data surveillance systems.
Mass shootings surge in New York as nation faces record high
Marco della Cava and Mike Stucka
USA TODAY NETWORK
Mass shootings in New York increased to 38 in 2020 from nine the year before, while nationally mass shootings jumped nearly 50% during a pandemic with crippling unemployment, violent protests and idle youth.
In 2020, New York reported 38 mass shootings that killed 20 and injured 175. A year earlier, the state had nine mass shootings that killed seven and injured 43.
Among New York s deadliest shootings last year was one Jan. 26 in Newburgh that killed three and injured one. The state s bloodiest shootings included one Sept. 19 in Rochester that killed two and injured 14.
1. Criminals 2. Guns This isn t just an ideological test. It s a sanity test. But of course, all sorts of alternative answers are possible. One very specific by-product of the pandemic the wearing of masks played a role in ratcheting up tensions that often led to violence, said Terrance Staley, program coordinator for the Alliance for Concerned Men, a long-standing community group that works to de-escalate conflicts in the Black community in Washington, D.C. Those context cues are not visible with masks, so you don’t know who’s up on you until they’re right there, said Staley. In neighborhoods with a lack of safety, that sort of fear leads to a lot of people carrying guns.