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Seven major American cities show there has been an increase in violent crimes this year compared to 2021.

Data from the Gun Violence Archive show the U.S. has seen 33 mass shootings since the start of this month to May 15

Experts say Black America has not benefitted since the growth of the Black Lives Matter movement, which called for defunding the police after the killing of George Floyd.

Zac Kriegman, a former director of data science at Thomson Reuters, claimed he was wrongfully fired from his job after sharing his research on race and police killings with colleagues.

Violent crimes like murders have plagued the U.S. over the last two years, and many experts pin blame on the fallout from the pandemic and 2020’s summer of protests and riots stemming from police killings, not an increase in legal gun sales.

Hannah Meyer blamed "defund the police messaging" for the spike in Black murders from 2019 to 2020.

MAC DONALD: We saw the largest one-year increase in homicide in this nation's history in 2020.

The year 2020 saw a 32 percent increase in the number of black Americans murdered compared to the ...

Experts blame "defund the police" activism for scaring cops away from high crime areas.

Experts blame the defund the police movement on the alarming increase in Black American murder victims.