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well-that-was-fast t1_j2bkfmi wrote

Reply to comment by High_DC in ABC News: "Washington, DC, records back-to-back years with 200 murders for 1st time in nearly 20 years" by Swampoodle1984

> I think that a lot of it was also related to short-term pandemic effects. A lot of people were out of work.

I agree with pandemic effects but think it's more mental health, not financial. It's a long jump from people being unemployed to becoming murders, and were talking about 50+ cases (100+ from 2012).

This is more about people who were able to mentally keep things together until society underwent a lot of scary upheavals very quickly and they were unable to find help adjusting.

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