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I don't know. My goal is to establish some baseline of fact and perspective before I start opining on causal relationships.

Thank you for the link. I'm having trouble locating the national rate for 2020 -- Most reports seem to be from a sample of a few dozen cities. Maybe it takes more time to report the nation data?

A %30 YoY increase is a dramatic increase, but also seems to be considerably lower than a few decades ago, if I'm understanding correctly?

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They're not going to have official US 2020 numbers for a while. The FBI is slow. We're relying on stuff like the Washington Post link where they look at less authoritative sources.

And yeah we would still be lower than the murder rate from decades ago. 5.0 per 100,000 times .3 gets you 6.5, that's lower than the murder rate from 1968 to 1997 if you trust the numbers at http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm.

I lived through the 90s murder rate in a high crime city, I'll be doing that again as an old man I guess.

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