Coincidence, because it's happening all over.
"The political affiliation of the mayor of a city had nothing to do with the increase in homicide," said Richard Rosenfeld, a criminologist at the University of Missouri St. Louis who co-authored the NCCCJ's most recent report. "Cities with Republican mayors, cities with Democratic mayors, if they were reasonably large cities, they probably saw an increase."
Link to the report: https://covid19.counciloncj.org/2021/05/21/impact-report-covid-19-and-crime-4/
