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2021-07-11 02:05:09 GMT2021-07-11 10:05:09(Beijing Time) Xinhua English by Matthew Rusling WASHINGTON, July 10 (Xinhua) -- The COVID-19 pandemic has given birth to a nationwide crime wave that shows no signs of abating. Experts, police officers and ordinary Americans fear that cities will once again plunge back into the wave of violent crime that characterized the early 1990s. More than 180 people were shot dead nationwide over the July 4 holiday weekend, as major U.S. cities continue to see a surge in violence, according to data gathered by the Gun Violence Archive, a database that tr...

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A police officer holds a firearm as community members gather on June 6 in Minneapolis, for Winston Boogie Smith Jr., who was fatally shot by members of a U.S. Marshals task force several days earlier. (Christian Monterrosa/AP Photo) The homicide rate in some large cities rose by 30% last year. The violence shows no signs of slowing down. We take a look at what's behind the sudden spike, and solutions that could reverse the trend. Guests Patrick Sharkey, professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University. Founder of AmericanViolence.org. Author of "Uneasy Peace." Eddie Bocanegra...

Fentanyl, Guns, and Murder: Get Ready for a Bloody Summer Rachel M. Cohen © Provided by The Daily Beast Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast As millions of vaccinated people emerge from lockdown, returning to shops, bars and restaurants, American life is kicking back into high gear. And in the United States in 2021, that means elected officials and crime experts are bracing for an unusually deadly summer marked by wanton gun violence. But the reasons for and locations of the likely surge in shootings, a trend that began before but has accelerated during the pa...

Amid a pandemic and protests against police brutality, the U.S. saw a surge in gun violence that is the largest in decades.