“Defund The Police” Movement ‘Coincided’ With Biggest Surge In US Violence Since The ’60s, FBI Data Confirms
by Zero Hedge
Francesco Abbruzzino, The Uncensored Report, LLC
Based on preliminary FBI data, America experienced one of its most murderous years in decades.
Of course, let’s not forget this all happened during a socio-economic collapse thanks to the virus pandemic and resulting public officials who closed the economy, leaving tens of millions of people struggling to put food on the table. At the same time, millions of others raced to their local gun store to purchase guns and ammo as liberal-run cities were transformed into a violent mess.
Vox reports US’ murder rate likely increased by 25% or more in 2020, but official FBI data won’t be published until later this year. The numbers are likely to be historic. “That amounts to more than 20,000 murders in a year for the first time since 1995, up from about 16,000 in 2019,” according to crime analyst Jeff Asher.
John Roman, a criminal justice expert at NORC at the University of Chicago, told Vox that the 2020 murder surge “is the largest increase in violence we’ve seen since the 1960s when we started collecting formal crime statistics.”