The coronavirus creates gun violence in New York City. Experts search for answers.
The Spike in Shootings During the Pandemic May Outlast the Virus
About 505 people were shot in New York City through May 9, the highest year-to-date number in a decade.
The major rise in gun violence in the city began in 2020, after a period in which violent crime dropped to its lowest levels in more than six decades. Now, even as New York City emerges from the pandemic, the spike that began as the virus spread last spring has shown no sign of receding: As of the second weekend in May, the city had recorded 505 shooting victims, the most through that point of any year in the last decade.
Experts say the economic and physical strain of the virus, which disproportionately took lives and jobs from neighborhoods that were already struggling with high levels of gun violence, most likely drove the rise in shootings.
NYT