Houston Leaders Grapple With Continued Rise In Violent Crime – Houston Public Media
iframe src "https://embed.hpm.io/393679/393606" style "height: 115px; width: 100%;" /iframe X As of March 12, Houston Police Department preliminary reports indicate at least 82 murders so far in 2021. That's compared to 60 at this point last year. While violent crime was already going up in early 2020, before the pandemic, it got worse after the coronavirus spurred shutdowns, according to Phillip Lyons, dean of the College of Criminal Justice at Sam Houston State University. "During the pandemic, with all the psycho-social stresses that are associated with that, I think it's not a big ...