Just stunningly awful numbers here. Chicago gets so much attention, but look at Philadelphia, up more than a third to 469, Memphis up more than half to more than 300, and St Louis, up more than a third to 261, which is jaw-dropping for a city whose population is down to 300,000. https://twitter.com/Crimealytics/status/1343950694672379905

Must be said, has national media coverage this year (and I count myself as culpable as anyone) reflected the scale of what's been happening on this front, that many cities are returning to late-1990s levels of violence?

I tried to get at it here: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/how-stop-police-pullback/615730/ and here: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-dollar-stores-became-magnets-for-crime-and-killing/. But there's so much more to be said, given the scale of the devastation.

The more you look at the numbers, the more shocking examples jump out: New Orleans up 62 percent to almost 200, Atlanta up 58 pct to 150, Milwaukee up almost *double* to 191, Forth Worth up 65 pct to more than 100, Louisville up 78 pct to 139, Cleveland up 42 pct to 168.
Brutal.