But that answer doesn’t need to involve a return to the punitive, tough-on-crime approach that has devastated Black and brown communities for decades and led millions of people to take to the streets in protest last summer. Liberals and progressives need an answer to the question of how to handle rising violence. And if November’s state and local campaigns were any indication, public safety will be a defining issue in upcoming election cycles. Public opinion responds in kind: Polling indicates that Americans are increasingly worried about violent crime. Violence takes lives, traumatizes children, instills fear, destroys community life and entrenches racial and economic inequality. To deny or downplay the seriousness of this spike is neither morally justified nor politically wise. And violence has continued to rise well into 2021. That’s the single biggest one-year increase since we started keeping national records in 1960. In 2020 the United States experienced a nearly 30 percent rise in homicides from 2019.
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