Rosenfeld told CNN that many factors could be playing a role in the rise in gun violence, including the pandemic as well as the racial strife spurred by the murder of George Floyd last year, and the effect both have had on policing across the US. In the second quarter that number went down to 10%. Louis and his colleagues found that in the first quarter of 2021, the number of homicides was 23% higher than in 2020.
Richard Rosenfeld, a criminology professor at the University of Missouri–St. The rapid rise in gun violence, however, might be slowing down. That’s 15% higher than last year, when there were a total of 611, a rate of 1.67 per day, according to data from the GVA.ĬNN and GVA define a mass shooting as an incident with four or more people killed or wounded by gunfire - excluding the shooter. Through September 15, there have been 498 mass shootings across the US, or an average of about 1.92 per day. That’s 1,300 more than during the same period in 2020, a 9% increase. So far, 2021 is on pace to be the worst year for gun violence in decades, surpassing even the high levels last year.Īccording to the Gun Violence Archive, from January 1 to September 15, a total of 14,516 people died from gun violence in the US.
