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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And Democrat mayors for DECADES.
attribute much of that spike to #BLM and Soro’s guidance. Get I’d of Soros and Obama’s influence and the homicide rate will decline back to normal.
attribute much of that spike to #BLM and Soro’s guidance. Get rid of Soros and Obama’s influence and the homicide rate will decline back to normal.
Obama letting criminals out of jail back onto the streets. His legacy will be releasing terrorists from GITMO- which he is obsessed with and releasing blacks from jail. What a great president.
Libtards worried Hillary wont be crowned queen?
Blacks and B L M, just proving once and for all, B L D M to them.
They matter to me, each and every one.
I lament the losses. These two groups can’t be bothered to even address what is really going on.
“I lament the losses.”
To me, a dead thug is a good thing. Good for me, good for the “community,” good for the country, good for the human race.
True enough but some of the losses are kids and other family members.
It is all about drugs. The drug world has taken over every inner city and the border states. There will be a death penalty for manufacture and distribution of non prescription drugs before the mayhem subsides.
Obamaland
The little Cow Town I moved FROM had a gangland style shoot-out a few years back.
They collected over 200 casings. At 2pm in the afternoon. On a weekday, near a school, in a residential area.
Our ‘Sheriff’ (SPIT) is a TOTAL gun-grabber. This incident was TOTALLY swept under the rug. It was a MIRACLE that no innocents were killed. And the thugs? They didn’t hit one another - ONCE! (Shooting from a car into a house and vice versa.)
This happened 10 miles south of, ‘The Peoples Republik of Madistan’ which has been run by loony liberals for generations. and they are MORE than happy to EXPORT this crap to all outlying areas. Just because you don’t immediately LIVE in a ‘Rat-infested area, doesn’t mean it’s NOT coming to you!
Now I’m out of that county and my nearest Cow Town is under 300 souls...and the only gunfire I ever hear is my own. :)
More dead black people thanks to Barry the Clown.
“True enough but some of the losses are kids and other family members.”
I agree that the killing of innocents by incompetent thugs is a horrifying crime. Of course. And we can’t condone murder. It can’t be denied, though, that the killing of a thug has a certain...utility...about it.
Whether the game is worth the candle, I don’t know.
Well, that's 6,700 fewer votes for Hillary. A minimum of 6,700 fewer welfare dependents, and at least 6,700 fewer successive-generation welfare dependents. A minimum of 6,700 fewer additional crimes. And who knows how much smaller carbon footprint!
I understand those thoughts. I have them myself.
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