By Steve Sailer
07/10/2021
The “racial reckoning” helps set an all-time U.S. record for biggest percentage increase in homicides: 29% more killings in 2020 than 2019, with the bulk of the explosion in carnage following George Floyd’s death:
According to the CDC the US had a homicide total of 24,692 in 2020, an increase of 5,551 compared to 2019. That’s 29% more homicides, with the majority happening after a spike that coincided with the riots protesting the death of George Floyd pic.twitter.com/nrlo5zvvyN
— Forest Dweller (@yukatapangolin) July 7, 2021
That’s bad.
According to the CDC the US had a homicide total of 24,692 in 2020, an increase of 5,551 compared to 2019. That’s 29% more homicides, with the majority happening after a spike that coincided with the riots protesting the death of George Floyd pic.twitter.com/nrlo5zvvyN
— Forest Dweller (@yukatapangolin) July 7, 2021
The 29% percent increase in homicides effectively erases decades of progress in combating crime. The last time the US had a higher homicide rate was in 1996 pic.twitter.com/qqZOILt8Pc
— Forest Dweller (@yukatapangolin) July 7, 2021
Here’s monthly change year-over-year. You can see that homicides were ramping up, then absolutely exploded during the racial reckoning. Heckuva job at getting blacks murdered, BLMie! The CDC data is from
here
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