I hid out in the Denver Lodo area by the main train station in a luxury building doing my cushy remote software gig while right outside my building were bands of homeless teens doing hard drugs in broad daylight. Occasionally assaults happened, sometimes for seemingly no reason. There was a citizen patrol group formed by homeowners to help keep the area safe by working with the police until permanent encampments were set up. Some homeowners were irate about what police would and wouldn’t do. It was a weird time.
I hate saying this as I’m firmly on the left and this stuff is a bogeyman of the right, but I imagine it must play a role if we’re trying to ask what was unique about US culture during this period.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-31/divorces-...
"There was no significant change in intimate partner homicides during shutdown months and victimization survey reports of intimate partner violence were lower".
I hadn't even been there a week and there was a manhunt with about a dozen police cars outside my building. Someone shot someone point blank at a supermarket just a few blocks away. I can't underscore enough how nice that area I was staying in, it was one of the most expensive places in the whole city... my landlord sold the 1 bedroom condo I lived in for $675k after I left in 2022.
One easy hypothesis is that a) we know you’re most likely to get murdered by your spouse, this is true for both men and women and b) we know lockdowns forced people into 24/7 sharing space with their partners.
So I think it would be interesting to see how much of that homicide increase was from domestic violence incidents. And whether domestic violence overall showed an increase.
"There was no significant change in intimate partner homicides during shutdown months and victimization survey reports of intimate partner violence were lower".
She replied that, yes, boys at her school would get mad at each other and start fighting, but none of them would have even thought of making appointments to punch each other in cold blood.
* is this still a thing in the Old Country?