Baltimore's homocide clearance rate also dropped from 40% to some percentage in the 20's because the breakdown in police/community relations made people stopped snitching.
There's a similar spike in St. Louis, timed to the Michael Brown killing.
The national murder rate spiked 25% in the last two years of Obama's presidency, after decades of decline. There isn't any alternative explanation.
https://epidemiological.net/2017/11/16/a-quick-geographical-...
https://www.copinthehood.com/2017/09/the-freddie-gray-effect...
A particularly good visualization of Baltimore's murder rate is here:
http://mistybeach.com/mark/BaltimoreHomicides.html
Baltimore's homocide clearance rate also dropped from 40% to some percentage in the 20's because the breakdown in police/community relations made people stopped snitching.
There's a similar spike in St. Louis, timed to the Michael Brown killing.
The national murder rate spiked 25% in the last two years of Obama's presidency, after decades of decline. There isn't any alternative explanation.