Posted on 09/25/2017 9:37:52 AM PDT by PROCON
Violent crime, including homicides, rose for the second consecutive year in 2016, driven by increases in a few urban centers including Baltimore, Chicago and Las Vegas, according to FBI data released Monday.
Violent crimes increased nationally this past year by 4.1 percent and homicides rose by 8.6 percent, one year after violence increased by 3.9 percent and homicides jumped by 10.8 percent. A total of 17,250 people were killed in 2016, the FBI said.
While crime overall and violent crime remain well below their levels of the 1980s and 1990s, last year was the first time violent crime increased in consecutive years since 2005 and 2006, according to the FBI data, which is collected from local police around the nation and released annually.
The figures come against a backdrop of steady crime reductions nationally during the past 25 years.
“This is ominous,” said Mark Kleiman, a criminologist at New York University’s Marron Institute of Urban Management. “What you worry about is that the trend is broken, and the numbers are going to go back up. A 20 percent increase in homicides over the past two years is not trivial. We’ve got what looks like a serious problem here.”
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Hmm, if only we could determine the common denominator in those cities.
Crime is growing like a wildfire here in little ol Anchorage Alaska.
No mystery why - gangs and the drugs they deal.
Next....
Amish mafia?
Hispanic gang-bangers killing each other and innocent bystanders in drug deals/gang territory disputes.
Under BHO, lots of games were played with all sorts of facts.
I'm surprised he didn't order the national atomic clocks to be changed in his own honor.
My thought too.
Bath Salts, iirc.
And, around the same time frame, another naked person story about a trashed restaurant in SC, maybe.
Also Bath Salts.
Oh come on. I can’t believe this.
You mean all that support for BLM, ANTIFA, and cop shooters hasn’t made a dent in crime?
Well I never...
Cesspool cities, cloward piven, the Ferguson effect.
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KYPD
Right idea, wrong twist.
Reporting isn’t getting more honest.
Crime is getting so bad that even their bet efforts can’t hide it any longer.
LOL, sarcasm noted, D1 :-)
How odd. It’s almost as if Obama caused police to stand down, not put themselves at risk of injury, death or lawsuits. But, nah, couldn’t be.
Funny how a very few lies about a handful of thugs rightfully killed by police and others have led to THOUSANDS more murders. But nobody is screaming about that blatant injustice.
Logic is not the strong suit of the rabid, insane left.
Black Lives Matter except when they are killing each other or being aborted by leftist believers.
Anchorage has become a cesspool. If I go there, I most certainly go armed.
Hyper-violent urban minorities drive a lot of crime. Certainly the Chicago gun homicide problem is driven by that population. As is the record homicide year they are having in Madison, Wisconsin this year.
Solving a problem begins with a clear and honest recognition of what the propblem is.
Baltimore and Chicago won't surprise anyone, but Las Vegas, a town that exists solely for tourism, doesn't need that kind of problem. If tourism takes a nose-dive because of fear, the entire city will die.
Ten yours ago, you could drive all over Las Vegas and not see any blacks. You certainly didn't see any ghetto-trash, unless you drove into a few certain neighborhoods; specifically North Las Vegas.
During the final year of the Obama regime, the Fed moved a lot of ghetto-trash into Las Vegas. I used to like the Boulder Strip. I'll never go back.
This was done intentionally.
Remove blacks and Hispanics from the equation and what are the stats?
Procon - would that ve Walla Walla? I hear the gangs there are a pestilence on the land. Just like Las Vegas, they seem to hold as much real power as the cops...
Lived in Las Vegas for years. Summer was a bit warm, but realy loved the area.
We fled in 1991 as the gangs - even that far back - had gotten out of control.
I’ll never go back, I don’t visit. And I warn others of the problems.
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