Joella homma hanskassa ja hanskat hukassa. Tietty jos käännyt poliiseja vastaan pidätyksen vastustajien ja mellakoitsijoiden puolelle, what can you expect?
‘Shock to the system’ from COVID, George Floyd protests, rising gun crime, poverty and racism are seen as root causes.
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Black and brown communities
One of the troubling aspects of the spike in murders is that is disproportionately hitting poor and minority communities.
“This has been an ongoing issue for years where Black and brown communities have continued to feel the devastation of gun violence,” said Ciera Bates-Chamberlain, executive director of Live Free Illinois, a group that works to foster safety in Chicago and other Illinois cities.
Police Backed Off
Add to COVID-19, the reality that police in major US cities backed away from making arrests following the George Floyd protests.
In Minneapolis, where Floyd was killed, police abruptly adopted a hands-off approach after the protests, according to a study of arrest data by the Reuters news service. At the same time, killings in the city surged to 82 homicides in 2020 and are on pace this year to break that number with 78 as of October.
“Police are receiving signals explicitly through managerial choices, or implicitly through from social media and the community,” Ratcliffe said.
In Portland, Oregon, more than 200 officers have quit in the past year and a half, many citing poor morale and lack of support from superiors. Portland recorded 63 homicides so far this year, surpassing last year’s toll of 57.