While national data on violent crime from the country's 18,000 police agencies lags behind, there have been marked increases in 2021 in some cities like New York, which experienced a 77% surge in shootings and 17% increase in murder through the end of May.
The deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor have created a movement demanding police reform, but what does that mean?“It was a targeted incident and the baby just happened to be one of the victims in this case,” Chief Murphy Paul told ABC News.
While current national data on violent crime from the country's 18,000 police agencies lags behind, there have been marked increases in 2021 in some cities like New York, which experienced a 77% surge in shootings and 17% increase in murder through the end of May. “With COVID and everybody's already been out of school, I don't know what going to bring but we're definitely preparing for that increase,” he said.
According to Walsh, there have been 21 more murders so far this year compared to this time last year in Las Vegas. Police have solved 49 of the 51 homicides in the city thus far.
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