Posted on 08/03/2020 12:05:43 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A majority of America’s 50 largest cities saw their murder rates skyrocket amid racial unrest stoked by liberals and the mainstream media.
Thirty-six of of the top 50 cities had a collective 24% jump in homicides this year compared to 2019, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Chicago saw the biggest increase, with more than one of every eight murders reported out of all cities surveyed occurring there. From the start of 2020 until July 31, there were 2,240 people shot in Chicago; 440 died, according to the Chicago Police Department.
Murder rates also increased in Detroit and Philadelphia, but also areas not usually associated with violence, such as Phoenix and Omaha, the Journal reported.
“Philadelphia and New York City came in just behind the country’s third-largest city, both tallying more than 200 more homicides this year. Along with Chicago, Austin and Fort Worth, Tx. saw the largest increase in murders,” Yahoo reported.
Police and crime experts have attributed the spike in violence to a variety of factors, including a rise in gang violence, an economic recession caused by the shutdown of businesses, and the lack of activity during the pandemic by social institutions that historically help tamp down crime, such as churches and schools.
There have reportedly been 3,612 murders in 2020 so far, Fox News reported.
Cities like Fresno, Calif., have also seen a spike. “Gangs are built around structure and lack thereof,” Fresno police department spokesman Jeff La Blue told the Journal. “With schools being closed and a lot of different businesses being closed, the people that normally would have been involved in positive structures in their lives aren’t there.”
This is a big factor why real-estate in more desirable smaller towns outside the big nasty cities are doing so well.
And with so many working from home, it’s a no brainer.
All run by demonRATs.
Residential and commercial real estate values as well as the white population are all declining rapidly in marxist Democrat controlled urban areas.
No one cares including blacks because its mostly, almost exclusively, black on black or black on white.
Urban areas are soooooo 20th century.
Of the 36 cities with large increases, how many “elected” a sorass DA?
When the media reports this type of crime increase they use the word "uptick". Sounds fairly minor, doesn't it?
Whey they describe any increase in virus cases it is SURGE or SPIKE or SKYROCKET.
Would be interesting to see a report listing ranking number, city name, number of murders and political persuasion of the mayor and council.
https://ballotpedia.org/Party_affiliation_of_the_mayors_of_the_100_largest_cities
The top 36 cities in population are run by 29 Democrats, 6 Republicans, and 1 Independent, if I’m counting correctly.
Who blame their failures on Trump.
Fresno has a Republican mayor, I believe.
And how many are dem strongholds?
Let me guess........
Funny, the author is missing the biggest causes: police-hating liberals and BLM who are endlessly:
1) berating police causing cautious officers who don't want to go to prison for 20 years.
2) working to reduce police budgets
Making police the enemy, making law enforcement an undesirable profession, cutting PD budgets in most big cities and marxist DAs who refuse to prosecute crimes is a perfect recipe for out-of-control crime.
Yet the article doesn't mention any of those elephants in the room.
That’s the dirty little secret no one wants to discuss.
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