Posted on 08/04/2020 7:54:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Rarely do we witness cause and effect so clearly.
Mayors and city councils everywhere are lurching to the far-left fringe, dismissing the majority’s concerns over crime, defunding and demoralizing police, and empowering violent criminals. That’s the cause. The effect is the rising murder rates in Democrat-run cities all over the country. Americans are dying.
Thanks to “defund the police” and the Democrat cities going along with it, violent crime including homicide is surging in most of America’s largest cities. While the raw numbers are terrible for Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, and other very large cities, it’s Austin, Texas, that’s leading by percentage-increase year over year!
AUSTIN, Texas — Analysis conducted by the Wall Street Journal found that homicides have spiked in 36 of the nation’s 50 largest cities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to WSJ’s data, Austin leads the country in percentage increase of total homicides compared to the previous year, ahead of Chicago, New York and Los Angeles.
#Austin leads the country in percentage change for homicides compared to the previous year. @Officer_Bino said it best: This is not the list we want to be on https://t.co/gV7A4iPI3v pic.twitter.com/7VWW0lfTBb
— Lt Eve Stephens (@apdevestephens) August 3, 2020
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
It’s all those Migrants from California that have decided Austin is the place to go shoot people.
Just another example of how misleading percentages can be.
Why so surprised? Austin is full tilt boogie liberal and is run as such...
Misleading headline.
While the stats and charts herein may be correct - it is not true to blame “Defund the Police” for these numbers.
The effect is the rising murder rates in Democrat-run cities all over the country. Americans are dying. Thanks to “defund the police” and the Democrat cities going along with it, violent crime including homicide is surging in most of America’s largest cities. While the raw numbers are terrible for Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, and other very large cities, it’s Austin, Texas, that’s leading by percentage-increase year over year!
RE: While the stats and charts herein may be correct - it is not true to blame “Defund the Police” for these numbers.
So, the article is wrong as to the REASON behind the increase in murder, by your lights. Tell us then what you think the main reason is for these increases.
The author is an idiot, or think his readers are idiots.
“Defunding” has not yet happened. All the proposed cuts we’ve heard about have yet to occur.
And Austin’s increase of 60% was from a very, very low baseline.
So, the supposed “cause” has not occurred but he attributes increases to it.
Great example of manipulating stats for dramatic effect.
Austin had about a 60% increase for sure but that still amounted to “only” about a 40 death increase while 2nd place Chicago had a 50% increase which brought their total to 440 deaths an increase of over 200 deaths so far this year.
Liars figure and figures lie.
Anyone wants to take bets Chicago shatters the all time murder record this year?
Murders were up 139% year on year just in July alone. And they are already way past 400 murders so far this year.
“While the raw numbers are terrible for Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, and other very large cities, it’s Austin, Texas, that’s leading by percentage-increase year over year!”
No attempt to deceive anybody.
So, the article is wrong as to the REASON behind the increase in murder, by your lights. Tell us then what you think the main reason is for these increases.
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Mariner explained it very well in post 9.
“No attempt to deceive anybody.”
City A had 1 death last year and so far this year have 2, an increase of 100%.
City B had 400 deaths last year and so far this year have 200 more an increase of 50%.
How would you rate the violence factor in each of these cities? Is City A more dangerous than City B because the % increase in murders is greater?
The story and the charts while technically accurate do not paint an accurate or realistic picture of violence in these cities.
Responsibility2nd, I think what you are saying has some truth to it.
Since actual defunding or redirection of funds is probably not yet apparent in this fiscal year as the allotments for those localities have likely already been approved and marked for distribution by localities, and if there is any more to the “Defund the Police” movement than simple bluster, it will not be evident until after October, depending on the fiscal year they begin on.
That said, the spikes in crime are more likely due to the perception among the criminal elements (and borderline criminal elements) that there is no will to enforce the law, either by local and state governments, or by the local and state police units who are cowed into laying low by the threat of defunding.
This may be like the stockholding public reading the tea leaves in a political environment, where Wall Street goes up when a President like Trump is more likely to be elected, and the stock-buying public begins bullish behavior driving the market up, or decreasing for the opposite reason (A Democrat being elected)
In the case of criminal elements, it may be as simple as getting while the getting is good, or settling scores while police are laying low.
The changes have not yet happened, but real time responses to the prospect are.
The purple state of Texas is leading the downward spiral.
Again he had two charts side by side. One with percentage increase and one with raw numbers.
Unless you are blind or can’t read, there is no way you can claim he tried to deceive you.
The charts are SIDE by SIDE for crying out loud. It’s not like he went and hid the raw numbers in some secret corner.
remind us all again why is it we pay property taxes etc?
And how this is not, in the very minimum, a fraud being perpetrated on the taxpayers of such cities?
A fraud resulting in otherwise innocent deaths?
From July 1st. Over a month ago.
New York City passes budget with $1 billion cut to NYPD amid City Hall protest
Wednesday, July 1, 2020
NEW YORK CITY (WABC) — City Council passed the New York City budget late Tuesday night, a budget which includes redistributing $1 billion from the NYPD budget.
Earlier this week, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the massive police department cuts and reduced expenses as part of NYPD reform.
https://abc7ny.com/defund-police-protesters-black-lives-matter-mayor-bill-de-blasio/6284680/
RE: The purple state of Texas is leading the downward spiral.
That’s what you get when you have mass migration from residents of Blue States who flee their liberal government but still bring their politics and voting habits with them.
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