It does not take a rocket scientist to deduce that if you vilify the police and get city officials on board, you will have fewer police on the streets - which leads to more crime. It turns out though, that crime was black on black mostly, and affected minority communities more than white communities. According to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report, killings across racial demographics have swelled by 30 percent between 2019 and 2020, the most significant increase since 1905, but Blacks have borne the larger impact of that deadly trend.
In 2020, 9,941 African Americans met their death at the hand of another human being, compared to 7,484 the year before, increasing to 2,457 murders. Murders of whites jumped 21 percent from 2019 to 2020, from 5,787 to 7,043.
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Hannah Meyer, the director of policing at the think-tank Manhattan Institute, suggests that widespread “defund the police messaging” worsened the murder rate among Black people. Meyer, who also worked in the NYPD’s Intelligence Bureau for five years, believes that the bloody trend was spurred on by the Black Lives Matter protests that began after the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014 and Freddy Grey in Baltimore, Maryland at the hands of police.
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She believes that the widespread ideology, coupled with cuts to multiple police departments, prompted cops to withdraw from policing areas with high crime, where lives could have potentially been saved. Meyer also insisted that the COVID pandemic could not be blamed for the spike, and attributed it directly to the crime wave that followed in the wake of Floyd’s killing.
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When the pandemic began, 7,043 White people were murdered, but Black deaths still outpaced white deaths by nearly 3000 that year. Considering Whites make up 76 percent of the U.S. population, per the U.S. Census Bureau, compared to the 13 percent Black population, the trend is even more troubling.
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Broken down over the 50 states, the data displays that those areas with the lowest Black populations, like Montana and South Dakota, saw the number of murders climb more than 80 percent, according to FBI stats. In Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, and California, murder rates all jumped at least 36 percent between 2019 and 2020. New York homicides jumped 47 percent.
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This trend has remained consistent over the years. In the 10-year period between 2010 and 2019, there were 5,954 Whites killed each year on average, 16 percent fewer than the number of Black victims. There were an average of 6,927 Black Americans killed each year during that decade, roughly a thousand more Blacks each year. In total, approximately 43 percent more Blacks were killed than Whites over that 10-year time span.
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