Posted on 06/12/2006 10:14:00 AM PDT by ritewingwarrior
Murders, robberies and aggravated assaults in the United States increased last year, spurring an overall rise in violent crime for the first time since 2001, according to FBI data.
Murders rose 4.8 percent, meaning there were more than 16,900 victims in 2005. That would be the most since 1998 and the largest percentage increase in 15 years.
Murders soared from 59 to 104 in Birmingham, Ala., up 76 percent; from 59 to 85 in Charlotte-Mecklenburg County, N.C., a 44 percent increase; from 89 to 126 in Kansas City, Mo., a 42 percent rise; from 87 to 122 in Milwaukee, a 40 percent jump; and from 79 to 109 in Cleveland, a 38 percent increase.
Cities with 50,000 to 500,000 people recorded the largest increases in murder, on average.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
AN ESTIMATED 84,563 AMERICANS HAVE BEEN MURDERED SINCE 9-11...
I have been searching to find definative statistics on what percentage of these crimes are committed by repeat offenders.
It is my guess, that the expansion of liberal crime policies is to blaim for this circumstance, and not anything to do with a lack of gun control.
They claim the number of rapes is down, but still 95,000 is an extraordinary figure. Are all the 95,000+ rapists using a gun?
And an ever increasing number of criminals among the illegal aliens "deported" by Fox.
Just noticed my spelling error, 'definitive'. sorry.
You can bet it is the liberal policies. Take for instance the judge that let the guy go because he was too short to go to jail. Now all short pedophiles will be out in force thinking they can skate if they get caught! Maybe a slight exageration but not by much. We know this guy will commit another sex crime. Parolees commit a large part of our felonies every year, and now we have the criminals, MS-13 for example, coming in from south of the border in larger numbers than ever before. Crime is up? Wow, who would have thought?
Houston's murder rate is up 23 percent. That's a dramatic and telling number.
Well when something useful to the elites is in short supply, they often choose to import it. ;)
If I may be so unpolitically correct as to suggest that it's gang activity combined with the miscreants from NO that have added to the crime in Houston.
Yes, you may. :)
Let's talk about Colombia, South Africa, Mexico, and Russia, all of which have strict gun control and very high crime rates.
And let's talk about Switzerland, which has very little crime despite all those guns they have there. I guess they're not walking around and killing people on their own like Sarah Brady says they do.
War is terrible but we lost 3600 in New York and the United States must, and did, take a stand.
If clinton had taken a stand we would not have this problem.
How can the MSM walk away from 17000 murders most of which occur in the inner cities, among minorities. Don't they count?
I don't think it's entirely immigration. Also blame the revolving door.
Just more of the do as I say elites.
Wonder what her health condition is these days. She was diagnosed with lung cancer and continued to smoke....several years ago.
The quagmire is in our own backyard.
In Switzerland, everyone has those crime-causing EEEVIL assault rifles. "A well armed militia..." The life expectancy of a cop or school child there should be less than WWI aviators.
Remove the Katrina Evacuees from the equation and Houston's murder rate would have been DOWN 7%....
Thanks NOLA!
The "I have a hangnail, must be the illegals fault" is wrong again as usual.
Fact is the article states cumulative violent crime rate over the last 5 years is much much lower than the 5 years before that. Even though the number of illegals over the last 5 years is much much higher than the 5 years before that.
Murders rose 4.8 percent, meaning there were more than 16,900 victims in 2005.
How many of these murders and rapes happened in Blue Cities with Blue Mayors, Blue City Councils, Blue Chief's of Police and the local media was dominated by left wing maggot infested mediots?
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