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The data was lauded by Democrats and the media as part of a turning point for crime woes in the U.S. after the crime wave of 2020, when defund-the-police protests and riots swept the nation and the pandemic’s stay-at-home orders upended daily life.
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Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 23 Jan. 2025
The decline signals the COVID-era crime wave, marked by years of deadly violence, may finally be ebbing.
—Alayna Alvarez, Axios, 24 Jan. 2025
Which brings us back to the unprecedented violent crime wave in our public spaces.
—Dara Riordan, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
And then the crime wave that it's brought upon the country, the untold humanitarian cost in terms of trafficking and fentanyl deaths, the leading cause of death for Americans age 18 to 49 for the last few years.
—NBC News, 19 Jan. 2025
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Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 23 Jan. 2025
The decline signals the COVID-era crime wave, marked by years of deadly violence, may finally be ebbing.
—Alayna Alvarez, Axios, 24 Jan. 2025
Which brings us back to the unprecedented violent crime wave in our public spaces.
—Dara Riordan, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
And then the crime wave that it's brought upon the country, the untold humanitarian cost in terms of trafficking and fentanyl deaths, the leading cause of death for Americans age 18 to 49 for the last few years.
—NBC News, 19 Jan. 2025
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“Crime wave.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crime%20wave. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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