Posted on 08/10/2020 12:36:06 PM PDT by karpov
New York City has seen a surge in shootings and other violent crime amid the new coronavirus pandemic, but the factors driving the trend are up for debate.
Shooting victims were up 81%, and shooting incidents were up 76% from Jan. 1 through Aug. 2, compared with the same period in 2019, according to New York Police Department figures.
The city recorded 237 homicides between Jan. 1 and Aug. 2, a 31% increase from the 181 during the same period in 2019.
The year-over-year increase in those crimes is more pronounced than any in more than two decades, according to the police, and the problem seems to be intensifying. Shooting incidents were up 201% in the four-week period ended Aug. 2, compared with the same period in 2019, while the number of shooting victims rose 165%, and the number of homicides climbed by 50%.
The NYPD, Mayor Bill de Blasio, judges, local politicians, and criminologists all have varying theories on what is propelling the rise.
In a press conference on Aug. 4., Mr. de Blasio said the rise in violence was fueled by a “perfect storm” of factors, though he singled out a backlog in the state court system, which he said hindered prosecutions.
The state’s Office of Court Administration has pushed back against the mayor’s assertion. A spokesman for the office, Lucian Chalfan, said July 27 that Mr. de Blasio “clearly has absolutely no understanding of how the criminal justice process works.”
New York state Chief Administrative Judge Lawrence Marks said July 31 that state courts were returning to normal after the pandemic temporarily closed some courts, with more than 22,000 arraignments conducted since mid-April and grand juries returning in August.
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Democrats
Now there's a useless bureaucrat job if there ever was one.
The DNC, party of the KKK, Jim Crow and Joe Biden has figured out new ways to legally kill the descendents of their former slaves, blacks in Blue Cities, like New York City, Chicago!:
Leo Terrell: ‘Joe Biden Has the Mindset of a Plantation Owner
townhall ^ | 08/07/2020 | Leah Barkoukis
1. Fund Planned Parenthood to slaughter unborn black babies whose Black Baby Lives Mean Nothing.
2. Defund the police in blue cities like NY City, Chicago, ______________.
3. Elect Joe Bidementia as our president!
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. The raw numbers are terrible for New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and other very blue and large American cities.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EeglTX_XgAA2w6f?format=jpg&name=large
e2.
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 BLM mobs to take it home with them.
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 coroner’s to pick up the black bodies much less perform active policing or peacekeeping.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3870374/posts?page=5#5 by allendale
It’s strange times in New York City. COVID — and confused government policies — has commercial buildings desolate in Manhattan. Few are returning to work in their offices despite politicians proclaiming otherwise. Restaurants can open for food but not for drinks. Gatherings are forbidden — unless it is to protest. Crime is through the roof, months after elected officials allowed looting and forced police to turn a blind eye.
Nazi’s didn’t want to kill everyone either, just the ones they didn’t want.
Culmination of decades of left-wing indoctrination in our public schools and universities.
Rise in violent crime is due to a weak mayor who takes the side of the criminals over the police.
Democrat logic:
- More crimes are being committed because the court system is backed up.
- The court system is backed up Because Trump.
- More crime Because Trump.
/liberal logic
“Now there’s a useless bureaucrat job if there ever was one”
Everyone is an analyst. The guys who cleans the toilets in the building is an “Elimination Systems Analyst”.
The Bastard Boom
Now there's a useless bureaucrat job if there ever was one.
I guarantee you this guy lives as far away from the city as he can, and still make a living at this.
Idiots are undoing all the good work done by Giuliani and Bratton.
Democrats. Or it could be idiots who are divorced from reality. (But I repeat myself.)
(I had thought that Democrat voters were delusional, and manipulated by Democrat politicians. Before this I didn't realize that Democrat politicians are just as delusional. They ACTUALLY BELIEVE that police cause crime.)
“Democrats’’. Criminals. Although both are cut from the same cloth.
RACISM!!!!
What else? /Sarc
How about the revolving door where criminals can now commit multiple crimes per day?
Big reason: democrat mayors ALLOWING marxists and black separatists to commit all the crime they want without having to worry about prosecution.
As a retired NYPD street cop I can tell you it is because smart cops have gone “dead” No arrests no summons and treading water til quitting time.
Giuliani proved effective. These morons should give him a call.
We have watched for 4 years as top officials In our government violate the law with impunity as our two tiered justice system becomes more apparent every day. Why would anyone feel they have to follow the law?
In a word, DeBlasio
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