Posted on 05/24/2016 6:01:41 AM PDT by KeyLargo
The Nationwide Crime Wave Is Building
As the homicide rate keeps rising in many cities, even some who dismissed the ‘Ferguson effect’ admit the phenomenon is real.
By Heather Mac Donald May 23, 2016
Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey has again drawn the wrath of the White House for calling attention to the rising violence in urban areas. Homicides increased 9% in the largest 63 cities in the first quarter of 2016; nonfatal shootings were up 21%, according to a Major Cities Chiefs Association survey. Those increases come on top of last year’s 17% rise in homicides in the 56 biggest U.S. cities, with 10 heavily black cities showing murder spikes above 60%.
“I was very worried about it last fall,” Mr. Comey told a May 11 news conference. “And I am in many ways more worried” now, he said, because the violent-crime rate is going up even faster this year.
Mr. Comey’s sin, according to the White House, was to posit that this climbing urban violence was the result of a falloff in proactive policing, a hypothesis I first put forward in these pages last year, dubbing it the “Ferguson effect.” The FBI director used the term “viral video effect,” but it is a distinction without a difference. “There’s a perception,” Mr. Comey said during his news conference, “that police are less likely to do the marginal additional policing that suppresses crime—the getting out of your car at 2 in the morning and saying to a group of guys, ‘What are you doing here?’ ”
The reaction to Mr. Comey’s heresy was swift. White House spokesman Josh Earnest immediately accused the FBI director of being “irresponsible and ultimately counterproductive” by drawing “conclusions based on anecdotal evidence.”
Mr. Comey’s dressing-down was the second time he has been rebuked..
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Obama has been letting criminals out of jail at a record pace that were suppose to be there for the rest of their lives.
And now crime is spiking... coincidence?
lol
Lock and load.
Ferguson Effect by the Bay
By Debra Saunders
May 24, 2016
...Suhr’s troubles really began on with a video of San Francisco cops shooting Mario Woods, a 26-year-old black man who would not surrender his knife on Dec. 2. Suhr found the video shocking, he told us. In crisis situations, Suhr said, he believes officers should “do what we can do to elongate an event” — that is, use nonlethal force and “time and distance” to de-escalate a crisis. The best cops talk like social workers. He’s no Dirty Harry. He told The San Francisco Chronicle, “I don’t think personal possession of narcotics ever should have been a felony.”
Back to the video. Woods had the knife he apparently used earlier to stab an innocent man who had been eating in a car. But you don’t see the stabbing victim. You see a person in crisis outnumbered by police. In a TV show, a hero cop would have risked his life to save Woods from himself. In real life, Woods did not heed officers’ calls to drop the knife, and beanbag projectiles did not subdue him. When Woods moved toward a cop, they shot him.
We ask police officers to protect the public and make life-and-death decisions in seconds. Before the advent of cell phone cameras, those decisions probably looked smarter than they look in a fuzzy few seconds captured on the phone of a new-to-the-scene bystander.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/05/24/ferguson_effect_by_the_bay_130649.html
Yet another opportunity to say that Obama is a POS.
They are going after Comey to make his investigation of hillary less damaging.
Comey will be fired or smeared in such a way that he has to resign.
What did I miss?
The devil is in the details, and how you parse them.
That “homicides” are up says little other than people are dying by the hand of people. Often themselves, as suicide counts as homicide. So does both criminal homicide and justifiable homicide.
If you look at websites that aggregate *defensive* gun use against criminals, you will see that with gun liberty, the mortality rate for armed criminals is skyrocketing. Especially in places with common concealed carry, armed robbers are at a huge disadvantage. Those with half a brain are looking for other lines of work.
But there are a lot of dummies out there getting culled by legal carry citizens.
In any event, suicides are also going up, for all sorts of reasons, as is opiate drug use. And most junkies have little choice but to commit crimes to buy their drugs.
Only after these things, does the weather come into play. The murder rate in Chicago always jumps when the weather gets warm. And while the Ferguson effect does exist, it is only partially responsible.
Obama’s legacy will be ugly.
More folks shot and killed is “anecdotal evidence”? Those silly facts used to be what statistics were made of!
Not just the “Ferguson effect”. Crime is rising because the current administration is doing all it can to let criminals of a certain skin shade go free.
What is with the Minnie Mouse ears on the poster gal?
Ferguson Effect by the Bay
By Debra Saunders
May 24, 2016
“It’s as hard right now to be a cop maybe as it’s ever been,” San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr to The Chronicle Editorial Board Tuesday. At the time, Suhr was resisting calls demanding that he resign. Five local protesters had given up their hunger strike to force his departure to atone for officer-involved shootings of four minority men in the previous two years. Four supervisors had jumped onto that bandwagon, but Suhr enjoyed Mayor Ed Lee’s support. Until Thursday, that is,
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/05/24/ferguson_effect_by_the_bay_130649.html
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