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 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.
The purple state of Texas is leading the downward spiral.
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?
The headline says, “Murder,” but the graph says, “homicide.” Does the graph include justifiable homicides counted by the headline writer as, “murder”?
The party of the KKK and Jim Crow has figured out new ways to legally kill their former slaves, blacks in Blue Cities:
1. Defund the police:
Thanks to “defund the police” and the Democrat Blue cities going along with it, violent crime including homicide is surging in most of America’s largest blue 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!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EeglTX_XgAA2w6f?format=jpg&name=large
2. Hold massive BLM protests in Blue Cities with high Covid 19 infection rates. Like the one planned in DC for teachers, coordinated by the DNC’s long time BLM overseer, Al Sharpton.
Then, let the killer virus Covid 19 take out more blacks participating in the protests involving 100,000 BLMers, packed together, yelling and screaming while protesting. That will spread the CV 19 into their mobs.
Marxist Democrat urban areas will become surreal 21st century ghost towns. Residential, commercial real estate and populations are declining daily. Soon, they will be haunted mostly by the strange and deranged. Street cops don’t even want to accompany the coroners to pick up the bodies much less perform active policing or peacekeeping.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3870374/posts?page=5#5 by allendale
Austin, Texas the Chicago of Texas I guess...