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2020 Homicide Spike Unrelated to COVID-19 or Gun Sales, Weaker in GOP Counties: Report

2020 Homicide Spike Unrelated to COVID-19 or Gun Sales, Weaker in GOP Counties: Report
A police officer stands near the scene of an afternoon shooting that left one person dead in the Brooklyn borough of New York on July 7, 2020. Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Nathan Worcester
Nathan Worcester
5/24/2022|Updated: 5/26/2022

New research has found that the 2020 homicide surge was weaker in Republican-voting counties, not linked to gun sale increases or COVID-19, and higher among black Americans, adding to a deeply contentious debate over the violence that shook the United States that year.

“Some people were claiming there was not a spike or that it is in Republican states, and others were claiming it just had to do with COVID,” Christos Makridis, a fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute and lead author of the new analysis, said in an email interview with The Epoch Times.

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Nathan Worcester is an award-winning journalist for The Epoch Times based in Washington, D.C. He frequently covers Capitol Hill, elections, and the ideas that shape our times. He has also written about energy and the environment. Nathan can be reached at [email protected]
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