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Experts have attributed the increase to a variety of issues — including entrenched inequality, soaring gun ownership, and fraying relations between police and the communities they serve — all intensified during the pandemic and widespread uprisings for racial justice. From 2015-2019, about 40 people per day were killed in incid
The Post’s analysis found an increase in shootings during summers, especially last year, echoing a trend that law enforcement officials and gun violence researchers have warned about for years. wapo.st/3gne59h
In July 2020, shooting deaths reached a peak of roughly 58 per day and continued, nearly unabated, around that level until early 2021.

Now, the numbers are rising again. wapo.st/3gne59h

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