New FBI statistics show that our nation is suffering a historic surge in violent crime — one that was entirely predictable. From 2019 to 2020, the US murder rate rose by an astounding 27 percent, the largest annual increase in at least the past 100 years.
This spike is so far off the charts it’s hard to fathom. Even during the great surge of violence at the start of Prohibition, the murder rate never rose by more than 19 percent. Over the past three decades, the biggest prior increase was in 2015, the year after the Ferguson riots, when the murder rate rose 11 percent — less than half of the increase in 2020.
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