Thursday, October 21, 2021

Talk about Burying Your Lede! wusa9 Changed Its Headline from "2020 Homicides Largest Increase in 100 Years" to "Homicide Rates Increased in 2020 While Suicide Rates Dipped, Reports Shows" [sic]

By Prince George's County Ex-Pat
Thu, Oct 21, 2021 4:43 pm

Homicide Rates Increased in 2020, While Suicide Rates Dipped, Reports Shows [sic]

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/crime/cdc-homicides-2020-largest-one-year-increase-100-years/65-270467fd-1221-45f9-acd3-c3cddc6a433c



2020 Homicides Largest Increase in 100 Years | wusa9.com

WASHINGTON — Public health data released this month reveals that 2020 marked the largest one-year increase in homicides nationally in over 100 years. "We did see a 30% increase in homicides ...

www.wusa9.com

"Figuring out what caused this increase is a bit of a challenge," Anderson said. "The homicide rate was inching up overtime [sic] prior to this, but the fact that this occurred in conjunction with the pandemic means that the pandemic probably had an impact. But we can't say that for sure."

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2 comments:

  1. In my research,I can only reply that two probabilities can be deduced to explain why murders are up:

    1.) There are more blacks in our country killing other people or 2.)the same amount of blacks are killing other people more often.

    I will include Mex,Muslims and other subgroups including Somalis,DRs,Cubans,Afghans and other criminal types from South American countries in this highly researched statement(I thought about it for about 10 seconds)

    --Doctor GRA

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  2. "Figuring out what caused this increase is a bit of a challenge," Anderson said."

    OH GOD. This is so hard to figure out. The state of lawlessness as a result of the riots in 2020 and the police presence and proactive approach gone. Nothing more than that. Bad folks just taking advantage of a situation.

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