Murders Were Up Most In 2020 Near George Floyd
09/19/2021
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Earlier: George Floyd, Homicides, And The 22nd Paragraph Effect

My Taki’s Magazine column from earlier this week included me looking up the increase in murders in 22 states (or D.C.) cited by a Democrat group Third Way that claimed that crime went down in 2020 over 2019 when you include the falling number of arrests for shooting craps in the alley or whatever.

On the other hand, murders were up 31% in their selection of states for which murder counts are online. Here are my totals:

  2019 2020 Chg
South Dakota 16 37 131%
Wisconsin 185 302 63%
Minnesota 117 185 58%
Nebraska 45 71 58%
Kansas 130 193 48%
Washington 206 302 47%
New York 570 831 46%
Idaho 28 39 39%
Tennessee 498 682 37%
Michigan 549 750 37%
Arkansas 232 310 34%
Colorado 227 301 33%
Montana 38 50 32%
California 1679 2202 31%
Nevada 141 184 30%
New Jersey 262 329 26%
Virginia 428 528 23%
North Dakota 26 32 23%
Rhode Island 26 32 23%
DC 166 198 19%
Florida 1120 1285 15%
Massachusetts 167 168 1%
Sum 6856 9011 31%

Murders were up the most in the North-Central region near where George Floyd died.

The only state without a big increase in murders was Massachusetts.

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