So where were they from 2016 to 2019?
They was outside
Crime been trending up since like 2018.
The pandemic was a powder keg for many reasons.
-PUA/PPP/SBA insurance scams
-The rise of credit scamming in the 2010’s and gun running as the most lucrative criminal activities
-Remote learning led to extra high truancy among at risk teens
-Drug use increased during the pandemic which led to higher demand
-Criminals released from prisons and county jails due to COVID-19 orders
-Spill out of mentally ill and homeless in the streets
-High stress time period due to disruption of life
-Courts slowed down during pandemic
-Lax policing after George Floyd riots
-Opioid Epidemic and rise of fentanyl
-Proliferation of guns
All in all the pandemic has been a time of economic surplus for people that’s in the street lifestyle.
2020 was to scammers what 1988 was to crack dealers. More money, more murder.