Posted on 12/17/2023 9:08:36 AM PST by re_tail20
Detroit, Michigan, cut its murder rate down to a 60-year-low by simply ignoring liberal crime policies, holding criminals accountable and hiring more police, a report from the city showed.
The city recorded 228 homicides this year as of Nov. 30, marking an 18% drop compared to the same time last year, according to the report. Detroit hit its lowest homicide rate in 60 years back in 2018 when it recorded 261 homicides, meaning 2023 could soon make a new record, Detroit Free Press noted.
In order to make the historic moment happen, leaders simply did the obvious: Locked criminals up.
The city worked to reduce felony gun case backlogs in both the Wayne County Circuit and 36th District courts and increased staff at its police department, sheriff’s department and county prosecutor’s office, according to the report. Detroit also created a FAST unit, which worked to apprehend fugitives, and managed to nab 1,000 individuals who had outstanding felony warrants.
Felony gun cases have been backlogged in the courts, though authorities managed to decrease the backlog from 4,000 in January of 2022 to 1,330 in November, a 67% reduction from 2022, the report said. (RELATED: ‘Love You, Mom’: Mother Says 14-Year-Old Son Won Basketball Game, Then Was Fatally Stabbed)
The 36th District court saw more than 2,000 pretrial felony gun cases pending in January of 2022, according to the report. A November review shows the backlog had dropped 80%, with just 415 cases on backlog.
“Leadership, teamwork and a commitment to the community were key components of this initiative,” Wayne County Executive Warren Evans said in the report. “Our data shows that 50 fewer Detroit’s will lose their lives to gun violence in 2023 and 100 fewer will suffer gunshot injuries.”
The coalition made “significant progress”...
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Lock them up and throw away the key!
Liberal “Logic”. Get rid of the laws and the cops! Viola! NO CRIME!!!
Or did they just waive their hand and make them go away.
Viola was a pretty big problem.
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When 80% of your population flees, this is what happens.
Dems cheat and lie so I’ll NEVER believe these stats.
Liberals and crime = Same thing
NYC did EXACTLY the same under Rudy and Bloomberg, and got EXACTLY the same results.
The New York Times, and EVERY other large media operation, has staff in NY City. They SAW IT ALL.
The Left knows how to effectively end crime, as they’ve seen it up close and personal. They ALL know.
Leftists are not the problem. The problem are those who EMPOWER Leftists, in many cases because they’re ‘embarrassed’ by Trump. Sadly, I know FAR TOO MANY of them.
“Our data shows that 50 fewer Detroit’s will lose their lives to gun violence in 2023 and 100 fewer will suffer gunshot injuries.”
Ironically, a large chunk of those lives saved may be the very individuals the city just locked up.
EC
Whoops! Voila! I slid back to my Bugs Bunny days.
Continuing to demonstrate lack of reading comprehension... Or not reading...
I guess so.
Read later.
It also helps that it has one-quarter of the population it had 60 years ago.
It’s has that decimated population stat for a number of years. So tough law is working.
If they do, a subset of them will commit more and more violent crime.
The solution is also simple.
Make sure that the majority do not get away with it and lock the subset who has developed a taste for it up forever.
More like ignore the law and crime isn't recorded or reported.
This strategy is as old as time. Crime committed by agents of the government are ignored by the government.
Criminals are the unwitting agents of the government.
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