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The murder rate has escalated in Vancouver, Canada but it’s almost all down to gang violence, in a growing turf war that seeks to control a lucrative market (partly related to border smuggling). It’s a complex question for law enforcement and government, quite often gangs recruit very young and previously unidentified (as troublemakers) teens who are not known until they either kill or die. The cycle of violence escalates as gangs engage in revenge killings. A favorite target is rival gangsters’ girlfriends or other associates, since the top gangsters have better security than some.

If this is the pattern being predicted for U.S. cities, while it is troubling on one level (a lot of hits taking place in public spaces like shopping malls and restaurants), at least most of the results are dead gangsters. We can think of several examples of collateral damage or mistaken identity (one guy was gunned down for merely driving the same vehicle as a target owned, but it wasn’t the right one).

I would imagine the U.S. predictions of escalating violence are meant to evoke fears of racially based violence, but these gangs seem to be multi-ethnic and no particular race is necessarily leading the charge, so the death toll reaches into various ethnic groups (in Vancouver, there are a lot of Indo-Canadians, Chinese Canadians and longer term “white” men active in the gang scene).

Donald Trump can make a lot of political gains if he takes an aggressive law and order stand, since some of the communities not as ready to support him in the past have much to gain and everything to lose in the alternative scenario favored by the Dumbocrats. He needs to be frank, the defund-the-police movement is just phase one of the anarchy that socialists like to create before a revolution can proceed to final stage (then the anarchists can be rounded up and thanked for their participation beside a brick wall somewhere).