Posted on 08/22/2015 5:51:21 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
"If New York had endured the same murder rate, the city would have seen 2,874 murders already this year."
"Adjusted for population, Baltimore's murder rate through Aug. 19 is 34 per 100,000 people, while New York's is just 2.5 per 100,000."
" Chicago has seen the most killings of any city, with 284 so far this year. With a population of 2.7 million people, Chicago's homicide rate is about 10.4 per 100,000 people to date."
“Adjusted for population, Baltimore’s murder rate through Aug. 19 is 34 per 100,000 people, while New York’s is so far this year 2.5 per 100,000.”
From the Baltimore Sun, Aug. 21, 2015.
DC101. They found two bodies this morning.
“[Mayor] Bowser proclaimed that the neighborhood ‘belongs to us’ and that the city would “battle through” the violence. She and [Police Chief] Lanier announced that the city would begin by doubling to $2,500 the reward for turning in illegal guns.”
So the Dems are once again trying to disarm blacks, just like their predecessors in the KKK did?
Hey Mayor Dumbass. How come the city had declining homicides all these years BEFORE Maryland passed new anti-gun laws?
Detroit had 164 criminal homicides through August 2 so Baltimoron is winning. Detroit has around 60,000 more pop and had 300 killings in 2014 which was low for them.
Forget that gun violence in Baltimore skyrocketed when she launched her war on police, immediately after the riots.
Its us having guns outside of Baltimore or even Maryland that is causing the crime.
Libs claim to be sooo much smarter than we are. This is brilliant.
GUN CONTROL, NOT THUG CONTROL.
During the Baltimore riots this maggot mayor was in constant communication with Valerie Jarrett.
She was a mere pawn as she danced to obammy’s tune.
Same as for Fergusons mayor.
Dispelling the myth of the “wild west”
In his book, Frontier Violence: Another Look, author W. Eugene Hollon, provides us with these astonishing facts:
•In Abilene, Ellsworth, Wichita, Dodge City, and Caldwell, for the years from 1870 to 1885, there were only 45 total homicides. This equates to a rate of approximately 1 murder per 100,000 residents per year.
•In Abilene, supposedly one of the wildest of the cow towns, not a single person was killed in 1869 or 1870.
Zooming forward over a century to 2007, a quick look at Uniform Crime Report statistics shows us the following regarding the aforementioned gun control “paradise” cities of the east:
•DC – 183 Murders (31 per 100,000 residents)
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Baltimore – 281 Murders (45 per 100,000 residents)
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Newark – 104 Murders (37 per 100,000 residents)
It doesn’t take an advanced degree in statistics to see that a return to “wild west” levels of violent crime would be a huge improvement for the residents of these cities.
The truth of the matter is that the “wild west” wasn’t wild at all … not compared to a Saturday night in Newark.
http://www.examiner.com/article/dispelling-the-myth-of-the-wild-west
Hope you don't mind. Bet 99%+ of the gang firearms are not legal purchases.
The nincompoop has to do SOMETHING.
She was riding high on the first riots.....looking to leverage her TV facetime to replace Barbara Mikulski in the Senate. But all those vainglorious dreams were dashed as the Baltimore murder rate climbed.
The idiot’s lamest move was to bring in Mr Divider himself....the Rev Al “Ebonics” Sharpton....to help her fend off the inevitable questions about her incompetence.
Sure, that helped a lot....(/snix).
I'm thinking you were meaning "schadenfreude" here rather than the composition by Rimsky-Korsakoff.
You’re right sick - this is an outcome of the war on police Rawlings-Blake started. She’s an idiot - a fool - a democrat...
Just tell Steph to send in the Million Moms for Gun Control along with Baraq’s BATF into the ghetto to clear out all the illegal guns.
(I sent that suggestion to Mayor Rhambo in Chitown and never got a reply).
LOL - no reply? Good one nascarnation....
Like the man said, whenever there is a shooting, the politicians always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
My wife is involved with protesting a private clinic just north of Baltimore that drags women in from several states.
Pathetically, a church rents space in the same parking lot, but the “pastor” doesn’t want to be political. What a jerk.
It was poetical imagery. I was thinking of the long haired lady in harem pants telling the story of baltimore and how the democrats have spent it into the gutter. And you were enjoying the story
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