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Homicide Rates Skyrocket 30% In Major Cities Due To Pandemic, Policing Problems 02/03/21 AT 1:09 PM While the pandemic has slowed crimes like robberies, homicides have surged in 2020 due to lockdowns and protests over police violence. Data released Monday by the Council on Criminal Justice showed the homicide rate up 30% across 34 major cities surveyed, with some drastically higher. COVID-19 lockdowns have prevented police and social workers from performing normal preventative policing, hea...

Homicides rose 30 percent in 2020, survey of 34 US cities finds By Tom Jackman Washington Post,Updated February 3, 2021, 4:55 p.m. Email to a Friend Authorities investigate the scene of a shooting in the Greenway neighborhood of Southeast D.C. last year, when homicides in the city rose for the third straight year, by 19 percent.Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post A group of 34 of America’s biggest cities suffered a 30 percent total increase in homicides in 2020, according to a new survey pub...

By TOM JACKMAN | The Washington Post | Published: February 3, 2021 A group of 34 of Americas biggest cities suffered a 30% total increase in homicides in 2020, according to a new survey published Monday, with police in four Midwestern cities reporting increases of more than 60% over 2019. In Milwaukee, homicides rose from 97 to 189, a 95% increase. In Louisville, Ky., homicides increased from 90 to 173, a 92% increase. Of the 34 cities surveyed by the National Commission on COVID-19 and Crimi...

The large increases in murder totals in places like Philadelphia, New York and Los Angeles made headlines throughout the coronavirus-plagued year for the terrible scale of hundreds of additional slayings. But the report released Monday that gathered year-to-year comparisons for 34 American cities big and small found that increasing homicides -- and other violent crime -- could be found almost everywhere. A graphic showing homicide rate increases, by city, in the final report from the Commission...

Phillys Rise in Homicides Is Bad. In Many Other Cities, Its Even Worse. Brian X. McCrone © Provided by NBC Philadelphia In the Southern California city of Chula Vista, homicides jumped from 4 in 2019 to 10 in 2020. In Chandler, Arizona, outside of Phoenix, homicides rose from 3 to 7 year over year. The large increases in murder totals in places like Philadelphia, New York and Los Angeles made headlines throughout the coronavirus-plagued year for the terrible scale of hundreds ...