Posted on 10/12/2006 12:07:40 PM PDT by Pyro7480
ABC News has obtained exclusive data that shows the murder and robbery surge that spiked last year has continued in 2006, and in many communities across the country, crime has gotten worse. The Police Executive Research Forum, a think tank that serves many of the nation's police departments, examined the murder and robbery stats in 53 U.S. cities for the first six months of this year....
...Murder was up in 26 of 53 cities — and robberies rose in 43 of 53 jurisdictions. For all jurisdictions reporting to the group, murder was up 4 percent. For the overall survey, robberies were up 9.7 percent. The report, titled "A Gathering Storm: Violent Crime in America," is scheduled for release this coming Sunday at a conference of roughly 100 police chiefs in Boston....
...No doubt, this poses enormous challenges for law enforcement officials, who need to come up with new strategies to combat a problem that affects entire communities. "We just can't arrest our way out of this. This is a very complex issue and it's going to require an enormous amount of resources," said DeMasi.
Top federal officials have recently said they are aware of the increases. At a briefing with reporters, Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty said, "The information we're getting about what is happening in '06 compels us to be all the more vigilant about what we're doing and to maintain our close communication with state and local law enforcement so we understand what they're seeing and what they're experiencing and that we can be as responsive to that as possible."
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Could it be illegal immigration?
Interesting timing (not really, we all know what this is), kind of like those homeless stats that appear before an election when a Republican is the incumbent.
Get ready for the anti-gun lobby to blitz us with "There are too many guns out there..."
The crime is probably related to illegal immigration.
The article itself is an anti-gun propaganda piece.
First thing I thought.
ABC News has decided it was time to publish a report that shows that murder and robbery spiked last year and has continued in 2006, and in many communities across the country, crime has gotten worse. How long they've had the data, where it comes from, and how the many variables are defined have been determined to be "none of the public's damned business."
PERF is a liberal anti-gun Clintonoid group.
Yup, but you won't see it linked in the MSM. Guns bad, immigrants good.
The national murder rate declined, nationally, last year. There certainly was no spike.
"Murder was up in 26 of 53 cities "
I wonder how many of those cities are run by conservative councils and mayors. Anyone? Ferris?
TC
Liberal handbook alert.
Maybe it's related to Katrina and displaced NOLA residents.
Then the thing to do is compare the stats for big cities (run by Dems)(with strict anti gun laws) to those of similar size cities run by Pubs. (with less restrictive gun laws)
Chief among long-time advocates of civil dis-armament is former New York City Police Commissioner, Patrick Murphy. Murphy, who now heads the U.S. Conference of Mayors, was enlisted to help craft Handgun Control Inc.'s assault on the Bill of Rights.
While with NYCPD, Murphy never earned the respect of New York City's rank-and-file cops. He didn't seem to care; his eyes were focused elsewhere, on the big political picture. He was a master of political gamesmanship and he quickly moved from New York to Washington, D.C.
In the nation's capital, Murphy spawned several police "type" organizations with a blatant anti-gun ownership agenda. His first, the Police Foundation, beget a host of clones including the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF).
Murphy proteges from New York City spread like a deadly anti-gun virus to organizations and departments throughout the nation. Brendan Behan became Chief of Baltimore County police. Robert DiGrazia hopscotched from New York to Boston to St. Louis to Montgomery County, Maryland. (DiGrazia was last sighted as a paid "expert" for the Police Foundation testifying against police officers in cases of alleged brutality.) Tony Bouza landed as Chief of the Minneapolis P.D. And of course, Joe McNamara made his anti-gun reputation as Chief of the San Jose, CA Police Department.
Police groups like the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the National Sheriffs Association and the Fraternal Order of Police, traditionally neutral or leaning toward a pro-Second Amendment stance, found their leadership and policies shift 180 degrees and following Murphy's lead down a path that led directly to an endless source of federal grant cash.
Last year the Police Executive Research Forum, the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the National Sheriffs Association and the Police Foundation collectively hauled in $4.4 million in Justice Department grants. Before then the Department of Justice dollars flowed just as freely. The International Association of Chiefs of Police raked in over $630,000. National Sheriffs Association cheerfully pocketed $516,943. The Police Executive Research Forum netted $447,343. The Police Foundation accepted a more modest $221,634.
Add up the totals [$1.8 million before, $4.4 million after] and you get a small peek at the economic and political clout the Clinton White House wields in shaping public policy and buying national police groups into line. Every federal dollar dumped into law enforcement bank accounts is quite legal. Each has a perfectly "rational" explanation. It is merely coincidence that the police groups that scurried to do the President's bidding happen to be the same ones that were awarded the lucrative federal grants. (And the Swiss Navy just launched its newest aircraft carrier to patrol its costal waters.)
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I believe that's the case in Houston. Don't see why it'd be different in other places.
They first showed up in highly redacted emails, but the IM's from the perps were the final clarification.
Just in time for the elections!
I trust you to cite the figure correctly. Many people won't know the difference, however, since this was based on a number of cities.
The question that should be asked is: which party rules most major cities in the U.S.?
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