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505. Did Domestic Violence Really Spike During the Pandemic?

Freakonomics Radio

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Domestic Violence in Los Angeles During the Pandemic Shutdown

Amalia miller and her fellow researchers, carmet sagel and melissa spencer, started to gather data on domestic violence. They wound up writing two research papers, one looking at domestic violence in los angeles during the pandemic shutdown, the other at los angeles plus 17 other big cities. We focused on the real time data that are made available by these police departments, either by posting at their web pages or that we were able to obtain by freedom of information act request.

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