Posted on 09/11/2016 6:06:35 PM PDT by Nachum
We have frequently written about rising violent crime around the U.S. with an emphasis on the soaring homicides in Chicago which are up nearly 50% YoY (see recent posts here and here). Now it seems as though others in the mainstream media are starting to take notice.
The New York Times recently compiled data from around the country and found there were nearly 6,700 homicides reported in the 100 largest cities in 2015, a YoY increase of 950 or roughly 17%, with nearly half of the rise — 480 of the 950 — coming from seven cities. Their study is tied to a June 2016 report published by the National Institute of Justice in which Richard Rosenfeld, a criminology professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, declared that “the [2015] homicide increase in the nation’s large cities was real and nearly unprecedented."
Murder rates rose significantly in 25 of the nation’s 100 largest cities last year, according to an analysis by The New York Times of new data compiled from individual police departments.
The findings confirm a trend that was tracked recently in a study published by the National Institute of Justice. “The homicide increase in the nation’s large cities was real and nearly unprecedented,” wrote the study’s author, Richard Rosenfeld, a criminology professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis who explored homicide data in 56 large American cities.
In the Times analysis, half of the increase came from just seven cities — Baltimore, Chicago, Cleveland, Houston, Milwaukee, Nashville and Washington.
The map below highlights the cities with the biggest spikes in YoY murder rates from 2014 to 2015. That said, the data doesn't speak to the continued rise in violence so far in 2016 with Chicago homicides up nearly 50% YoY.
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In his study, Dr. Rosenfeld said that rising crime might be linked to less aggressive policing that resulted from protests of high-profile police killings of African-Americans.
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Oh, Rosenfeld has to acknowledge what police know.
There is a Ferguson effect and it has led to a real rise in violent crime.
Increased homicides 80 wrecked result of progressive Democrat liberal policies
In this era of Obama scarcity, it’s good to see there’s more of something.
950 more murders, but Obama accomplished his goal of increasing antagonism between races.
O’Dingbat told us we’re safer than we’ve ever been.
O’Dingbat told us we’re safer than we’ve ever been.
Is there a common factor in these?? You bet there is.
“In the Times analysis, half of the increase came from just seven cities — Baltimore, Chicago, Cleveland, Houston, Milwaukee, Nashville and Washington.”
What do all these cities have in common? Blacks killing blacks.
The Ferguson effect.
It’s like the cops have essentially told the thugs : “Go ahead. Kill each other. We won’t even bother investigating killings with black victims.”
I think that there’s too much “diversity” going on out there.
Baltimore = BLM protests after Freddie Gray
Milwaukee = BLM protests
Cleveland = BLM protests after teen with lookalike shot.
In all three, cops back off and let the yutes run wild.
It’s racist to mention or report things like this.
Is it possible that having the American president embracing illegal aliens, convicted felons, rioters, looters and the Black Lives Matter people who chant “Kill The Pigs” has anything to do with it?
And just WHO is committing these homicides???
“What do all these cities have in common? Blacks killing blacks.”
Law-abiding blacks living in those lawless zones are undoubtedly fed up...and I think they recognize the link between democrat policies and the violence...a lot of them are going to support Trump, IMO!!!!!
"It's harder to get the laws you really want if the laws you have appear to be working."
And Ferguson was all about community organizing and even bussing in protesters done by DOJ and SEIU.
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