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Re:Newark cops, with reform, didn't fire a single shot in 2020 by umanwizard on Saturday April 24, 2021 @10:26AM (#26925049)
> More likely the pandemic is to blame.

You mean the response to the pandemic, not the pandemic itself.

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Re:Newark cops, with reform, didn't fire a single shot in 2020 by JamisonM on Saturday April 24, 2021 @10:36AM (#26925121)
I don't know what the OP meant but I certainly would mean specifically "the pandemic is to blame".

If there were no discernable response to the pandemic from any organized institution in society there is a pretty good chance the pandemic itself could be blamed for a /lot/ of terrible things.

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Re:Newark cops, with reform, didn't fire a single shot in 2020 by wizzwizz4 on Saturday April 24, 2021 @04:43PM (#26928131)
> If there were no discernable response to the pandemic

I think this is the point GP's making.

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Re:Newark cops, with reform, didn't fire a single shot in 2020 by tootie on Saturday April 24, 2021 @12:14PM (#26926010)
Probably both. 550K people are gone and we are likely experiencing a peak in fear, grief and despair. But business and school closures are probably not helping. And given the prevalence of domestic violence, quarantine is probably prison for some percentage of people.
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