Editorial: L.A.’s murderous deja vu

The best first step in dealing with L.A.’s murder pandemic is to remember the tough lessons learned the last time around.

Editorial: L.a.'S Murderous Deja Vu

Los Angeles Times – by The Times Editorial Board

The jump in homicides that began in 2020 and continues unabated this year is part of a deadly feedback loop set in motion by COVID-19. The pandemic brought us lockdowns and shutdowns, disrupting life’s daily patterns and at least temporarily dissipating our sense of security and our confidence in societal structures and institutions. Many people got sick, many hunkered down and some — too many — bought guns. Tempers, anxieties, anger and outrage, bottled up for months, erupted in bursts. For some few, they were bursts of killing.

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