he's also a professor of criminology and criminal justice at the university of missouri st. louis.he 12th. what do you expect it to show? >> we expect it to show with respect to homicide a somewhat more mixed picture in '21 than we saw in 2020. in 2020, nearly every city we looked at experienced a rise in homicide and in many cases, very large rises. this year the situation is somewhat different. we do have cities you've mentioned a few of them, we do have cities that are showing very, very large rises, albuquerque, new mexico, austin, texas, portland, oregon. we have other cities, however, milwaukee, boston, dallas, cleveland that are experiencing in some cases, sizable declines. so the homicide picture this year, though we have a long way to go is somewhat more mixed than what we were seeing last year. >> why do you think that is? >> i think in part it's because some of the conditions that appear to have been associated with the rise last year have subdued somewhat. the pandemic although with the resent omicron outbreak, you know, all bets may be off on that one but generally spe