We had a major surge in violent crime associated with COVID. Which makes sense - COVID was very stressful for all of this, and stressed out people act out in a variety of ways. Now that the stress is better, crime is dropping back to where it was headed before.
a lot of the low end of the economy got hit hard, too. factory workers, warehouses, retail, fast food, etc. and that made it hard on those workers, as well as those on the lower end of the economy to get services from there.
no jobs, and no options -- so crime. now that things are bouncing back the problem is abating.
We had a major surge in violent crime associated with COVID. Which makes sense - COVID was very stressful for all of this, and stressed out people act out in a variety of ways. Now that the stress is better, crime is dropping back to where it was headed before.