The drastic decline in proactive policing likely contributed to the nationwide spike in violent crime in the last two years, data shows. The Epoch Times reviewed data for police stops—a classic proactive policing tactic—and violent crime for five cities, showing that in many instances when police stops dropped, violent crime rose, and vice versa. In Minneapolis, data showed that the number of officer-initiated stops dropped 80 percent in June 2020, right after the George Floyd protests erupted. Meanwhile, violent crime rose to a historic high. The same pattern was observed in four other cities that were examined: Seattle, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia. Though violent crime typically rises in summer, the drastic surge in 2020 was out of the ordinary for many locations. For Minneapolis, between 2017 and 2019, the high points during summer barely reached 400. Yet in the summer of 2020, the high point jumped almost to 600. …