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Guess which three cities account for a two year spike in murder rates in the USA?
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| 04/25/2016
| Jazz Shaw
Posted on 04/25/2016 8:02:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Vote for Democrats and pray for Ksick’s nomination.
(That’ll boost more hoping and changing until America is but a memory.)
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posted on
04/25/2016 8:06:16 AM PDT
by
HomerBohn
(Liberals and slinkies: they're good for nothing, but you smile as you shove them down the stairs.)
To: SeekAndFind
Baltimore, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.
All bastions of Democratic Party rule. No coincidence.
To: SeekAndFind
Guns don’t pull their own triggers.
To: HomerBohn
The demise is already past reversing.
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posted on
04/25/2016 8:10:13 AM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(Democrats bait then switch; their fishy voters buy it every time.)
To: SeekAndFind; Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Last year (literally!) was a spike in Baltimore murders due to the riots. Primarily from police backing down and ignoring anything that happened.
It was an aberration.
MD ping.
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posted on
04/25/2016 8:10:47 AM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
To: SeekAndFind
its even harder to keep a lid on violent crime when you begin treating your police officers like the enemy. Yep. This is a huge issue that the liberals and race baiters who are in charge of these cities created. They have made their police forces ineffective. In some areas, there is no more line of defense between the residents and the thugs who prey on them because the police know that if they enforce the law, they will be villainized and may end up in jail themselves on some BS Civil Rights charge. Liberalism and racial politics have destroyed these cities and turned them into lawless zones.
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posted on
04/25/2016 8:10:54 AM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: SeekAndFind
I'm shocked.
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posted on
04/25/2016 8:17:42 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(WE DON'T NEED NO STEENKING TAGLINES!...........................)
To: the OlLine Rebel
Primarily from police backing down and ignoring anything that happened.Primarily from the mayor (D) ignoring anything that happened and siding with the rioting hooligans.
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posted on
04/25/2016 8:25:29 AM PDT
by
immadashell
(Save Innocent Lives - ban gun free zones)
To: AnotherUnixGeek
Baltimore rioted against the police. Now that the police have retreated, who is going to save them from their residents?
To: SeekAndFind
Three cities were also mainly responsible for the rise in murders. Final data confirm that three cities (Baltimore, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.) account for more than half (244) of the national increase in murders, the report said. All of which share a common political and demographic component.
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posted on
04/25/2016 8:38:14 AM PDT
by
MileHi
(Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
To: SeekAndFind
The first factor and the one which both liberals and conservatives are likely to agree on is that these cities are the epicenters for chronic poverty and high unemployment, particularly among minorities. Drug abuse and its associated business structure contribute to widespread depression, gang activity and violence. The lack of wealth (aside from government infusions of cash) contributes to structural decay, failing schools and a host of other factors which result in a socioeconomic death spiral, both figuratively and literally.I do not agree with this portion of the article. This "first factor" basically embraces the "poverty causes crime" theory. The more accurate theory is "crime causes poverty".
Using the "crime causes poverty" theory supports the article making an even more powerful indictment of liberal/Democrat/progressive mishandling of crime. Then again, liberals/Democrats/progressives thrive on crime.
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posted on
04/25/2016 8:48:05 AM PDT
by
DakotaGator
(Weep for the lost Republic! And keep your powder dry!!)
To: DakotaGator
‘The more accurate theory is “crime causes poverty”.’
True. The reason why the middle class has fled so many inner cities is crime. It’s downhill from there.
There is crime and there is government theft. They are morally similar, but, with government writing the laws, only one is illegal. Why are/were communist countries so poor? From investor to worker, individuals were only allowed to make so much, the rest to be confiscated. Excessive taxation and regulation has a similar effect.
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posted on
04/25/2016 9:06:31 AM PDT
by
ChessExpert
(It's not compassion when you use government to give other people'snt money away.)
To: SeekAndFind
I got 2.5 correct. I waffled between DC and LA for my thrid pick.
To: jsanders2001
Guns dont pull their own triggers. Sure they do. Evil gun makers and the NRA design them that way on purpose. Innocent gangbangers go out and accidently murder each other every day... it's got to be the guns' fault since they're all just innocent little children.
To: ChessExpert
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posted on
04/25/2016 9:44:27 AM PDT
by
DakotaGator
(Weep for the lost Republic! And keep your powder dry!!)
To: HomerBohn
Has anyone asked the fools at the Washington Post HOW many murders in Chicago were by NRA members this year?
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posted on
04/25/2016 9:45:33 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(If GOPe rules are rigged to steal votes from citizens it's time to walk away...)
To: Liz; MrB; Mr. K; sickoflibs
The second factor is the one which the Left and the media (though I repeat myself) are less eager to discuss. These are all cities which have been governed by Democrats and liberals for generations, choosing more progressive policies when it comes to dealing with crime and a firm belief that if we simply keep pouring more and more tax money into failing systems they will somehow right themselves. Almost entirely unmentioned in these public discussions is The Ferguson Effect, and the fact that its even harder to keep a lid on violent crime when you begin treating your police officers like the enemy. Jazz Shaw gets it...
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posted on
04/25/2016 9:48:25 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(If GOPe rules are rigged to steal votes from citizens it's time to walk away...)
To: HomerBohn
I guessed right! What do I win?
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posted on
04/25/2016 9:50:50 AM PDT
by
D Rider
To: All
Stop paying Democrats to breed.
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