Thread by @AlecMacGillis

Just stunningly awful numbers here. Chicago gets so much attention, but look at Philadelphia, up more than a third to 469, Memphis up more than half to more than 300, and St Louis, up more than a third to 261, which is jaw-dropping for a city whose population is down to 300,000.

https://twitter.com/Crimealytics/status/1343950694672379905

Must be said, has national media coverage this year (and I count myself as culpable as anyone) reflected the scale of what's been happening on this front, that many cities are returning to late-1990s levels of violence?

I tried to get at it here: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/… and here: propublica.org/article/how-do…. But there's so much more to be said, given the scale of the devastation.

The more you look at the numbers, the more shocking examples jump out: New Orleans up 62 percent to almost 200, Atlanta up 58 pct to 150, Milwaukee up almost *double* to 191, Forth Worth up 65 pct to more than 100, Louisville up 78 pct to 139, Cleveland up 42 pct to 168.
Brutal.

Put this toll, and the demographic reality it represents, alongside the racially-disparate toll of Covid, and it's been an unspeakably horrific year of loss for Black Americans.

This, too: 173 homicides in...Columbus?? (30 more than record): dispatch.com/story/news/loc…