Good morning. Welcome to Exios today. It's Wednesday, April 13th. I'm Nyla Boudou. Here's

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Waimei 9th is a crucial date in Putin's playbook. But first, today's one big thing. America's

surge in violent crime.

A gunman opened fire in a busy Brooklyn subway yesterday morning. A mass shooting that's

left at least 29 people injured. The violence created even more anxiety in a city already worried

about a rise in crime. And it's not just in New York. According to the gun violence archive,

there have been 131 mass shootings this year so far. Yes, I said 131. I reached out to a former

colleague, Brian Walsh, who's now editor of Fox's Future Perfect to help us understand

what we know about violent crime across the country. Hi, Brian. Hi.

And we actually talked to you about this last fall about why violent crime surged. The

most recent data was from the CDC shows that in 2020, homicides nationwide were up 30 percent

that's the largest increase in recorded history. But what do we know anecdotally about 2021

in this year so far?

Well, what we know so far is that the situation has gotten worse while we don't have full

national stats on 2021 homicides that won't come until later this year from the FBI.

A study from the Council on Criminal Justice, they looked at 22 cities nationwide and they

found that homicides increased 5 percent in 2021 over 2020 and also 44 percent over 2019.

There's no real sense that this surge in gun violence, it really started during the pandemic,

seems to be abating in any way. In fact, it's really, it's getting worse.

So you're talking about gun violence. Are we seeing other kinds of crime spike also?

We've seen a lot of violent crime spike that might be shootings that don't involve deaths.

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