By Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
The “success” of the Black Lives Matter movement resulted in a massive surge in black-on-black murders.
The 2020 murder surge very disproportionately affected Black victims. https://t.co/D6XftlWsmV pic.twitter.com/c9ceMoxL03
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) May 19, 2022
From The Manhattan Institute:
The national homicide rate spiked dramatically in 2020, a change obvious both in the CDC data and in the numbers from the FBI. […]
Much attention has been paid to whether this increase was driven by the pandemic and lockdowns or—in an echo of the “Ferguson effect” debate from half a decade ago—by the summer protests and unrest, which could have led to depolicing. Homicide rates early in 2020 were slightly above 2019 levels—and the gap widened in March and April, before the murder of George Floyd in May—but violence truly exploded in the summer (Figure 2).
