Reposted by Hank
I’ve been shouting about this for years. Murders started going up in the *spring* of 2020, well before George Floyd was killed.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
washingtonpost.com
Column | Why did murders surge in 2020? Research says economics, not activism.
New analysis from Brookings shows that the increase began not with the death of George Floyd but the erosion of employment.