the fact that police departments have been hit hard by covid, then you add in all the violence, especially gun violence, that hit this country. talking about over 21,000 murders, you put on top of that, the fact that hospitals are really good at saving people, that number could be a lot higher. this number is pretty shocking when you think about a 30% increase. when you look at the numbers, it is 2019, 6.0 homicides per 100,000. in 2020, that number jumped to 7.8 homicides per 100,000. and when you include suicide in this, there was a drop there, in 2019, it was 13.9 suicides per 100,000. and 2020, 13.5 suicides per 100,000. as we have been tracking this throughout the year, and i ve been going city to city, this is not just something going on in large cities. midlevel american cities have been dealing with the increase in gun violence, and when you think about police departments dealing with, when you have a small detective crew that has to deal with homicides, you have to put your te