Today Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart speculated that the likely reason murders are spiking across America is . . . income inequality.

After the Morning Joe panel batted around ideas for what’s driving the increasing violence, host Joe Scarborough asked Capehart, “Do you think the cop slow down might have anything to do with this?”

“It might be a part of it,” Capehart said before quickly adding that “there are a whole lot of factors” at play:

Its the economy, in not reaching folks. We have been talking around this set on lots of shows and networks about the divide, the huge gap in income, I should say the income and equality that’s out there where you got people at the very top who are doing extremely well. People who are at the bottom rung of the economic ladder not doing well and doing worse, especially since the economic collapse of 2008.