In early 2021 I pointed out, which was a considered a radial concept by many at the time, that violence had indeed gone way up since the unrest following the murder of George Floyd.
I wanted to update the data in that post about the relationship between enforcement (or lack thereof) and violence. So I did.
Breaking it down by quarter shows heavy seasonal effects. So it’s more useful to compare every 4th bar (same quarter, different year) than every adjacent bar. 3Q 2019 vs 3Q 2020 is the most dramatic.
Here are the categories and numbers.
The basic end of policing in the 3rd quarter of 2020 is pretty striking. It’s also when shootings reached their many-year high.
Sources: https://www.nyc.gov/site/nypd/stats/reports-analysis/c-summons.page and NYPD