Instead, they blame it on the global COVID-19 pandemic — without pointing to any global increase in the murder rate. On Twitter, Professor Shon Hopwood suggested the rise in America’s murder rate was due to the “global pandemic, reduced economic opportunity, and the most contentious presidential election of the past 30 years.” Hopwood is a convicted bank robber who spent time in prison, and dislikes keeping people in jail.
In reality, murder rates fell in much of the world during the pandemic. As InSight Crime notes, “It’s too early to tell with any degree of certainty how exactly the pandemic may have impacted levels of violence, but there were notable developments, including significant reductions in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Venezuela, historically some of the most homicidal nations in Latin America and the Caribbean.”
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