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The FBI has made it official: 2020 saw the biggest spike in murders in American history—30 percent. The year that saw Black Lives Matter-inspired racial turbulence on a scale that hadn’t been seen since 1968 blew past that year’s previous record murder spike of 12 percent.

On Sunday across America, the bullet-riddled nation to the south held a Day of Remembrance for its tens of thousands of homicide victims.

Homicides in the U.S. spiked by almost 30% in 2020. That was the main takeaway from figures released on Sept 27, 2021, by the FBI that showed almost uniform increases across America in the murder rate. The fact that big cities, small cities, suburbs and rural areas...

The number of murders in the U.S. rose nearly 30% in 2020 compared with the previous year, according to FBI statistics. It is the largest single-year increase since the record-keeping began.

The number of murders in the U.S. rose nearly 30 percent in 2020 compared to the previous year, according to FBI statistics. It is the largest single-year increase since the record-keeping began.

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2020 saw a nearly 30% jump in murder in the united states. that is the biggest increase since the fbi started collecting such data in 1960. this from a "new york times" analysis of fbi data on crime numbers. lets get right to crime data analyst jeff asher and former houston police chief charles mcclelland. 2020 obviously a year like no other. mass shootings dipped, violent crimes rose only 3% but murders 30%. why do you think murder saw such a massive increase? >> it is a really tough question, ...

Baltimore is now trying to take a different approach to prevent violence in the city.

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Brian Rich/Sun-Times Complaining about low bail for violent arrestees and an “historic” number of guns on Chicago’s streets, Supt. David Brown on Monday expressed frustration that the city’s violent crime remains at near-record levels for the second year in a row. Chicago saw 105 murders in the month of July, just two fewer than in July 2020. Year to date, there have been four fewer murders in 2021 than during the first seven months of 2020— though there have been nearly 200 more shoo...