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New Orleans violent crime spiking as unemployment, health worries stoke unease
https://www.localmemphis.com/mobile/article/news/crime/new-orleans-violent-crime-spiking-as-unemployment-health-worries-stoke-unease/289-df6d3796-09d6-43a5-be5a-12f2a2c1f03bIf 2020 couldn’t get any worse, murders in New Orleans are rising – quickly.
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Criminologist Peter Scharf, who tracks the numbers for LSU Health says a deadly combination has destabilized people’s lives with high unemployment, economic woes and health concerns and unstable living situations.
What we do know is destabilization causes murder and you have economic losses and all of those things cause irrational fear,” he said.
Scharf said New Orleans could pass its 2019 murder totals before August is done. His tracking shows the city on pace for 170 killings this year.
More at link.
Same in Memphis area; murders up 30% & other violent crime way up too. So repukes' plan is working. Create chaos to please chump's boss: putin. 🤬
