Posted on 05/13/2016 9:05:54 AM PDT by reaganaut1
WASHINGTON — More than 20 major cities, including Chicago, Dallas, Las Vegas and Los Angeles, have seen large increases in murders in recent months, a spike that the director of the F.B.I. linked to less aggressive policing stemming from a “viral video effect.”
The new data released Friday showed clashing trend lines across the country, with many cities seeing a sharp increase in murders while rates in others — including New York and Miami — were down significantly from last year.
After receiving an advance look at the data, the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey Jr., expressed alarm Wednesday about the spike in murders in some major cities. Reigniting the debate over a “Ferguson effect,” he told reporters that he believed the trend could be linked to a “viral video effect” because officers were being less aggressive for fear of ending up on videos.
The White House distanced itself from Mr. Comey on the issue, named after Ferguson, Mo., where the 2014 shooting of an unarmed black man set off protests and rioting.
Josh Earnest, the White House spokesman, told reporters Thursday that “there still is no evidence to substantiate the claim that the increase in violent crime is related to an unwillingness of police officers to do their job.”
Mr. Earnest said the president saw a false choice in any notion that police officers must decide between fighting crime and doing so in a fair way.
“The truth is the vast majority of police officers do both,” Mr. Earnest said.
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Here in the burbs of Ft. Lauderdale I have zero hesitation for riding my bicycle around at any time I desire. Even at 3am.
Balkanization of America is underway.
While your at it, those cities are also being flooded with gang-banging drug kingpins that Obama let out of prison.
In my opinion, the republican establishment is working with Obama to destroy this great country. It is not that Obama out maneuvers or out smarts them. The Republican establishment give up without even trying.
They intentionally lose.
Ya, we don’t have enough home grow criminals, so the lawyer politicians flooded our country with tens of million of illegals who have no, zero respect for our rules, laws or our culture, who drive the wages down to 1990s levels.
Just brilliant leadership.
My wife and I enjoy the beach after dark just watching the offshore thunderstorms. It is a sight that must be seen because no written description is adequate.
What he meant to say is: "...less aggressive policing because of the current political climate where the dirt-bags have more rights than their victims - both before and after the crime...."
And Obama wants to spread this to the suburbs.
He already is.
I wonder what the increase in crime rates are in these metro area suburbans, where his import/invasion programs are already at work.
Well underway. Focusing on every possible thing that divides us can never achieve equality. Even if it did, equality is not necessarily a good outcome.
Teach people a reason to hate and you’ll get hate. Teach people That they’ve been wronged by others but and just didn’t know it and they’ll hate the others. Us and them is the most powerful societal force out there.
the republican establishment is working with Obama to destroy this great country.
So it's not just the Democrats as you suggested up thread. Got it.
87% of the 1.1 million legal immigrants we bring in each year are minorities as classified by the USG. Since 1990 we have brought in 35 million legal permanent immigrants, about equal to the population of Canada. By 2019, half of the children in the US will be minorities and by 2043, non-Hispanic whites will be 50% of the population down from 89% in 1970. Immigrants and minorities vote more than two to one Dem. Demography is destiny.
Common denominator.
It's not so much as cops not willing to do their job but that they're shackled. Look cross eyed at a minority thug and they're call on the carpet and their family is threatened.
“Tell me detective, why is Obama such an enept terrible negotiator with everyone except the Republicans?”
You could be a good negotiator too, if the judge who enforced the negotiations (the media) were in the tank for you.
It’s the medias fault the Republicans are as corrupt as the Democrats?
Democrat mayors like to keep crime numbers "looking" low so they can attract businesses. So they lie. Knowing all too well that the fools in the press will 'go along to get along' as long as the liars are democrats.
They laugh at you in the White House, they laugh at you in the DNC they laugh at you in every mayors office in every democrat city in the United States. You reporters are the punch line to jokes ERIC LICHTBLAU and GARDINER HARRIS.
Why?
Your patterns. YOU ignore LAWS Hillary has broken but work to find anyone who dares to speak against a member of a democrat victim group. You ignore laws broken by democrat victim groups but kick any traditional Amecan for the smallest political incorrectness...
Those are the standards - pure silly high school type bias. Our 'in group' vs THEM.
Here's how to help Democrats win the 'crime' problem: Change the laws... make it so speaking against any member of a democrat victim group is a crime. The ONLY crimes. All other 'crimes' can be wiped off the books. That way democrat mayors of hellholes can have the lowest crime rates in the United States. To hell with rape, robbery or treason - to hell with espionage...
Why go half way in your protection of democrats and their 'victim groups'?
THE ONLY CRIME that should matter is saying something bad about a liberal elite or one of the many victim groups that prop them up...
For the most part, the useless bad people in the ghetto cities are killing other useless bad people. I say let them have at it.
“It’s the medias fault the Republicans are as corrupt as the Democrats?”
Essentially, yes.
It is changing, which is why we won big in 2010 and 2014. But when the media speak with one voice, and that voice defines the agenda and what is important or not, they are who the politicians fear.
We lived in a mediacracy (country ruled by the media) for a long time.
New media has been changing that for a couple of decades now.
But the media cartel still got Obama elected twice, demonized Dubya, and has 40 percent of the population believing that Obama has not perfected the economy because of those evil Republicans.
[And Obama wants to spread this to the suburbs.]
Correct. He wants America jobless, aflame, broke, weakened, morally-bankrupt, militarily-weakened, disillusioned.
Essentially, yes. It is changing, which is why we won big in 2010 and 2014.
We won big? I don't recall winning anything. What specifically did America win?
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