Megan McArdle has a twitter thread going on the rise in homicide rates. (Kevin Drum has pointed out that while homicides have risen, violent crime hasn't.
I'm going to write a longer column on this but I think that the people reassuring each other that the urban crime spike is only homicide, while other violent crime fell last year, should not assume that those trends will keep diverging.
— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) May 25, 2021
I offered two comments in twitter, neither totally serious. One was recalling a past discussion on the impact of medical advances on homicide rates--ER's might save more victims. The other was suggesting that criminal gangs were losing revenue from the effects of the lockdown and the legalization of pot, so they might be fighting over a shrinking pie.
I'm wondering how the trends will evolve.
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