The number of homicides continues to rise in major American cities following a year that saw a record increase in homicides across the country, according to a report published Thursday by the Council on Criminal Justice.
A study of homicides during the first six months of this year in 22 cities showed that the number of murders increased by 16% compared to the same period in 2020 and by 42% compared to the first six months of 2019.
The report is the latest suggesting that the number of homicides in major American cities continues to grow.
The number of homicides in 2020 compared to 2019 rose by 25%, according to an FBI preliminary report. That represents the largest jump since the agency started releasing annual homicide figures in the 1960s.
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The novel coronavirus constituted the country’s third leading cause of death in 2020, according to preliminary data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But the lockdowns and the Black Lives Matter movement also killed us in extraordinary numbers. In fact, they disproportionately victimized the groups they were intended to protect.
Overall life expectancy in the United States fell by one and a half years to 77.3 years. Last year alone erased over a decade of medical progress, and it did so unequally. Whereas a white woman’s life expectancy only fell by 1.1 years, the average black man lost three years and can no longer expect to live past his 60s.