The US homicide rate jumped 25% in a single year. NY, LA and some other cities are still far from their early '90s peak, thank god. But many others are breaking records. I went to one to make sense of what's happening. Here is my story for @propublica: propublica.org/article/philad… 1/2
...and here is the first of two podcast episodes I reported with @miles__bryan and @jbweinz for Vox's @today_explained, built around the powerful voices of several Philadelphians reckoning with the spike. open.spotify.com/episode/0a7gpt…
The second episode will be here later today: vox.com/22596737/homic…
The second episode is now out. Tyffani Rudolph is a star.
https://twitter.com/today_explained/status/1421205414612545538?s=19
As others have noted, the official responses on the institutional closures and disengagement that lie at the heart of the piece were striking. 
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