Leftist lockdowns, division, riots, calls for revolution, claims of systemic oppression, and fear mongering had probably nothing to with this:
The U.S. murder rate increased nearly 30% in 2020, according to the FBI, making that the largest percentage increase in modern U.S. history with almost 5,000 more murders last year than the year before, although it is still down from heights reached during the violent 1990s.
The bureau released its Uniform Crime Report statistics on Monday and estimated there were 21,570 murders in the United States last year, an increase of 29.4% from 2019, with 4,901 additional murders in 2020. In raw numbers, 2020 saw more total murders than any year since 1995, when an estimated 21,610 people were murdered in the U.S., though the total U.S. population has expanded by tens of millions of people since then, meaning the overall murder rate in the U.S. is still lower.
Nope, I think we can safely assume that those evil conservatives – what with their "leave-me-alone-to-worship-God-and-provide-for-family" mentality – are the problem here.
If only they would have hung those BLM signs outside their house and professed the Good News of Karl Marx, this never would have happened.
The data shows the murder rate rising to large heights in the summer of 2020 and then remaining above normal the rest of the year. The jump is the biggest since this data started being collected like this in the 1960s.
I'm sure we can lower this rate if we keep telling people that they are criminals or victims based on the color of their skin, keep letting cartels control the border, keep shuttering businesses, keep taking away guns from good guys, and keep flooding the streets with "free" cash.
The murder rate is believed to have continued to increase in 2021 from 2020, though at a slower rate than the difference between 2020 and 2019, although data on that is much more limited.
Maybe if we ramp up the Critical Race teaching in our schools, defund all police, launch abortion campaigns, and elect a few more 50-year career politicians to tell us why America is evil, all crime will go away!
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