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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Let them kill each other off, who cares.
The is the ultimate irony of the #BlackLivesMatter crowd. By focusing on the death of a few thugs at the hands of the Police, they condemn their whole community to this kind of violence.
That being said, there are a few cases where the Police seem to be in the wrong. Depts need to work on this, but the #BLM crowd think all Police are evil.
(some) BLACK Lives (don’t really) MATTER
Dead registered Democrats salute.
Forget local restrictions.
For your survival, decide whether you’re going to carry a gun, or bear spray....but, decide to carry a standoff weapon.
This minority is trying to make itself more minor.
Clinton Math. It accompanies the famous Clinton Grammar & Linguistics courses in public school.
and the excuses just keep coming....
His whole premise was there was no such thing as absolute truths. When pointed out (among several arguements that go around) that math was absolute, he had to deny math to maintain his liberal indoctrination. Because in his mind, liberalism cannot, by definition, be flawed...so math must be.
He never explained how his belief was not, in context, an absolute truth either. Such is the mind of a liberal.
According to the MSM and White Mosque,
Americans voted twice for this.
#StopKillingEachother
The bottom line. Put aside any, and all other discussions of WHY, and look at the one most important aspect of our society that has caused NOT ONLY rising murder rates in our cities, but ALL THE PROBLEMS of our society today.
Democrats.
No matter which way you approach the topic you will fall over some idiot Democrat on your way towards the answer you seek.
Be careful so you don’t injure yourself in the fall.
Symptom of the times.
Let’s guess what all these cities have in common politically.....begins with a “D”, I think?
Real math not any form of new math is racist.
Well...What do expect when you put handcuffs on the cops...???
Noticing that means you’re a racist.
Or, from “Liar, Liar”:
#StopBreakingTheLaw@$$h013!
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