data journalist rob arthur and jeff asher report in the intercept that quote the change in murders was larger in towns with under 10000 people that was up 31 percent then in cities with over a 1000000 and the murders rose dramatically in big cities like new york and chicago but smaller cities like lubbock texas and shreveport louisiana also recorded their highest murder counts in decades. now of course the question is what what would cause this terrible rise in violence while some point to the strain of living under the pandemic or the rise of police violence and the national questioning of law enforcement legitimacy as factors others point to the massive surge in gun buying at the beginning of the year when the threat of lockdowns and pandemic was prevalent but thomas abbott director of the national commission on covert 19 and criminal justice bill he observes it lightly it likely takes more than one factor to create a spike of this size that means it wasn't just the pandemic or police violence or more guns it was all of these things happening simultaneously and perhaps more so what d

data journalist rob arthur and jeff asher report in the intercept that quote the change in murders was larger in towns with under 10000 people that was up 31 percent then in cities with over a 1000000 and the murders rose dramatically in big cities like new york and chicago but smaller cities like lubbock texas and shreveport louisiana also recorded their highest murder counts in decades now of course the question is what what would cause this terrible rise in violence while some point to the strain of living under the pandemic or the rise of police violence and the national questioning of law enforcement legitimacy as factors others point to the massive surge in gun buying at the beginning of the year when the threat of lockdowns and pandemic was prevalent but thomas abbott director of the national commission on code 19 and criminal justice bill he observes it lightly it likely takes more than one factor to create a spike of this size that means it wasn't just the pandemic or police violence or more guns it was all of these things happening simultaneously and perhaps more so what does