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Murders Spiked In 2020. How Will That Change The Politics of Crime?
Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. sarah (Sarah Frostenson, politics editor): New data released by the FBI last week showed a spike in homicides in 2020, while major crimes overall in the U.S. fell. This marked one of the biggest one-year increases on record, and in addition to the…
Murders Surged in U.S. in 2020
By Cara MurezHealthDay ReporterMONDAY, Sept. 27, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- A record increase was seen in the number of murders in the United States in 2020, in the biggest one-year jump reported since federal officials began tracking homicides in 1960.Figures showed 4,901 more murders committed in 2020 than in 2019. A total of roughly 21,500…