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The preliminary data for murder for agencies that have published that data shows that murders in 2020 (up until November for most of them). You can see in the tweet the exact dates the data was from.
The preliminary murder rate increase is 36.7% at this point. For context, the year with the worst murder rate increase was 12.7% in 1968.
And before people blame the recession, in the 2008 recession murder rates went down until ~2014.
What could be the cause of such an insane spike in murders?