Posted on 09/01/2015 12:11:47 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
MILWAUKEE — Cities across the nation are seeing a startling rise in murders after years of declines, and few places have witnessed a shift as precipitous as this city. With the summer not yet over, 104 people have been killed this year — after 86 homicides in all of 2014.
More than 30 other cities have also reported increases in violence from a year ago. In New Orleans, 120 people had been killed by late August, compared with 98 during the same period a year earlier. In Baltimore, homicides had hit 215, up from 138 at the same point in 2014. In Washington, the toll was 105, compared with 73 people a year ago. And in St. Louis, 136 people had been killed this year, a 60 percent rise from the 85 murders the city had by the same time last year.
Law enforcement experts say disparate factors are at play in different cities, though no one is claiming to know for sure why murder rates are climbing. Some officials say intense national scrutiny of the use of force by the police has made officers less aggressive and emboldened criminals, though many experts dispute that theory.
Rivalries among organized street gangs, often over drug turf, and the availability of guns are cited as major factors in some cities, including Chicago. But more commonly, many top police officials say they are seeing a growing willingness among disenchanted young men in poor neighborhoods to use violence to settle ordinary disputes. . .
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How bout suicides..?
...what a shock...
The Obama effect.
Yup, oboma’s boyz.
It’s simple: The more blacks in a city, the more murders, and the more fires of racial hatred are stoked by irresponsible leaders, the more murders.
Let me guess, these are all democrat run cities, right?
Other Obama effects that the media ignores:
The European immigration crisis - a direct result of his poor foreign policy.
This rising US crime rate - a direct result of so many poor economic policies.
Chinese and Russian aggression - weak foreign policy again.
Math is racist...
Explaining why the murder rate in Detroit is down. Oh, wait a minute . . . .
Yes. The “migration” problem in Europe is the direct result of Obama’s “Arab Spring.”
“Last year, Detroit’s homicide count ended at 304, down from 333 the previous year. Still, the city’s homicide rate remained at 44 per 100,000 residents, one of the highest in the nation.”
Through the first three months of 2015, homicides in Detroit have risen nearly 25 percent over the same period last year, when the city witnessed its lowest total in decades.
Thin the herd.
I don’t know of a major US Urban area that isn’t run by the Democrats.
Lots of anger there, courtesy of our post-Racial POTUS and his minions and fellow travelers.
LMAO, I have been told that by liberals when I show them black statistics vs other races. They do say that its racist, god help us, we are surrounded by fools.
Short version: I once worked with a lib reporter that argued in front of the newsroom that 1+1 did not have to =2. He was dead serious and got rather loud and obnoxious about it.
It will not surprise you to know his very next gig was as an aid to an east coast Democrat state pol.
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