Robert VerBruggen: The 2020 Murder Spike is Officially Over

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There’s considerable debate over what caused the 2020 crime spike, but it certainly had something to do with the confluence of tragedies that befell the country that year: the pandemic, the George Floyd civil unrest, and the widespread depolicing caused by both. Numerous studies show that policing reduces crime, and that high-profile, controversial police killings cause, at minimum, local crime increases. It was reasonable to expect that violence would decline as those forces receded, though it’s frustrating that it took several years to happen.

The left's favorite stories about the spike seem to be: [1] COVID did it, and, of course [2] racism...somehow...