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minus-squareSnoozemumrik@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down3·9 months agoI’m pretty sure something significant happened late 2019, but I can’t quite recall what.
minus-squaregedaliyah@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·9 months agoI wonder if the spike in murder rate is connected with domestic abuse. During the pandemic, there was no escape for people who were in danger.
minus-squareSnoozemumrik@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·9 months agoYeah, that’s pretty much what I was aiming for. Include financial desperation and mass death due to COVID and you have a powder keg.
minus-squareThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down6·9 months agoWell in that case I guess it’s OK that 4 years later the murder rate remains elevated. I keep forgetting that Because The Pandemic is a valid excuse for literally everything.
minus-squareSaiPenguin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·9 months agoNope, it’s a possible explanation for why there was a spike and why that spike is receding.
I’m pretty sure something significant happened late 2019, but I can’t quite recall what.
I wonder if the spike in murder rate is connected with domestic abuse. During the pandemic, there was no escape for people who were in danger.
Yeah, that’s pretty much what I was aiming for. Include financial desperation and mass death due to COVID and you have a powder keg.
Well in that case I guess it’s OK that 4 years later the murder rate remains elevated. I keep forgetting that Because The Pandemic is a valid excuse for literally everything.
Nope, it’s a possible explanation for why there was a spike and why that spike is receding.