The year 2020 is one most people will never forget due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but an even more insidious virus was also infecting communities all across America — a movement to defund the police. In 2020, particularly in cities where the mantra of “defund the police” drove public policy, violent crime started to rise at shocking rates and continues on that ill-fated trajectory to this day.
According to the Washington Post, “The United States has experienced the largest single one-year increase in homicides since the country started keeping such records in the 20th century, according to crime data and criminologists.”
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