
Murder Rates Rise Alongside Anti-Police DemonstrationsMurder Rates Rise Alongside Anti-Police Demonstrations
Nine cities with some of America’s largest murder rate increases hosted Black Lives Matter and Defund the Police protests in 2020. Data analyst and criminologist Jeff Asher published a preliminary look at America’s skyrocketing murder rate. He found that murder rates rose year over year in 51 out of the 57 locales from which he […]