By Charles M. Blow, The New York Times, October 6, 2021
In a shocking revelation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday released provisional data suggesting that between 2019 and 2020, the country had its biggest increase in the rate of homicides in modern history.
Furthermore, The Guardian pointed out, “At least four Black women and girls were murdered per day in the United States in 2020, according to statistics released by the F.B.I. last week, a sharp increase compared with the year before,” and the paper reported that experts believe even that extraordinary number “probably represents an undercount.”
This came only days after a study in The Lancet revealed that deaths from police violence in the United States between 1980 and 2018 have been undercounted by more than half. And the report found that Black people were three and a half times as likely as white people to be killed by the police.
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