All within the past couple of days or so, save the Oakland cops situation:

Five children reported dead after dad’s suicide
Gunman Kills 3 Police Officers in Pittsburgh
US police hunt for clues after immigrant slays 13
Yahoo Engineer Kills Five Family Members in Murder-Suicide
Three police officers killed in Oakland shootings
2 Mass. sisters, brother who killed them mourned

Freakonomics (I think?) tried to argue that crime rates aren’t affected by economic conditions–but uh I call bullshit on that.

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