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Lcokheed_Martini t1_jeefgoo wrote

Just about every undesirable metric went up during the pandemic. Yes, that included gun related injuries.

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okRacoon t1_jefxe4j wrote

As far as crime goes it looks like it was a mix. According to data released by the FBI, the number of homicides in the U.S. rose about 30% in 2020 from the year before. There was a surge in vehicle thefts during the Covid-19 pandemic. In 2020, U.S. crooks purloined 880,595 cars, trucks, and SUVs, which represents a 10.9 percent increase over 2019

However, not all violent crime increased. Robberies were down and property crimes, which account for most crime in the U.S., dropped by 8% in 2020

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Lcokheed_Martini t1_jefxslv wrote

It’s a logical and reasonable inference to suggest that this shift relates to people being home so the opportunities for non-violent property crimes were reduced.

And while people were at home they had more time to implode into self harm or explode into harming others. This occurred more often with those that were already marginalized before Covid hit because they had fewer resources to start and got more marginalized and felts the impacts more acutely.

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okRacoon t1_jefz4j5 wrote

According to the CDC, from 2019 to 2020, the suicide rate declined overall by 3%.

Why do you think suicides went down while homicides went up so drastically?

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Lcokheed_Martini t1_jefztsf wrote

> According to the CDC, from 2019 to 2020, the suicide rate declined overall by 3%.

> Why do you think suicides went down while homicides went up so drastically?

To quote myself:

> This occurred more often with those that were already marginalized before Covid hit because they had fewer resources to start and got more marginalized and felts the impacts more acutely.

Though i would double check that suicide stat. There might be an asterisk in the stat for “ruled a suicide” vice just calling something a accident and moving on.

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OG__Swoosh t1_jegh3la wrote

Do you think all of these things are directly correlated with the pandemic?

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Lcokheed_Martini t1_jeghkia wrote

Directly? No because if there was a simple ipso facto causation it would have the same impact across all socio economic groups in the a similar way. The pandemic was experienced very differently by different groups in this country—and economic status was one of the clearer correlations in different effects.

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