NOTE: This paper was originally posted as a pre-print on SocArXiv on March 3, 2023. On October 2, 2023, it was accepted for publication by Criminology. It will be published open-access in the February 2024 issue. Background This paper started with a tweet on February 2, 2021. I had retrieved open data from a handful of jurisdictions and plotted city-level trends in police stops and reported crimes before and after the onset of COVID-19 and the George Floyd protests.
