Posted on 01/25/2019 1:04:16 PM PST by reaganaut1
In 2015, I documented that crime in Baltimore was rising rapidly as police resources became stretched as they dealt with riots and anger following the death of Freddie Gray. I warned that the city could tip into a permanently higher crime rate.
It’s now become clear that is exactly what happened as an investigative report by The Trace reveals:
"Instead of getting backup, detectives were pulled from their cases, sometimes for days at a time, to help quell the violence. By 2016, homicide investigators cumulatively spent 10,000 hours working riot duty and patrol rather than tracking down murderers…
In the ensuing months, Baltimore’s closure rate for shootings dropped to 25 percent, the lowest in recent history. More than 1,100 cases from 2015 and 2016 alone remained unsolved by the following summer.
As the closure rate fell, the number of shootings increased (see data at right)."
It’s not just Baltimore, however:
"The crisis of unsolved shootings isn’t confined to cash-strapped cities like Baltimore, but also hits some of America’s most affluent metropolises. In 2016, Los Angeles made arrests for just 17 percent of gun assaults, and Chicago for less than 12 percent. The same year, San Francisco managed to make arrests in just 15 percent of the city’s nonfatal shootings. In Boston, the figure was just 10 percent."
(Excerpt) Read more at marginalrevolution.com ...
A very good readon to not live in a large city.
Depends which side of the shootin' iron one happens to be on.
Well i know which side i like to be on, however, most shootings around me draw far to much attention of the local authorities.
Same around here. Odds are pretty good you’ll be found out. The discosure here is identification of places where the shooter is more likely to get away than to get caught. And the more shootings, the better the odds of getting away!
All this in NANCY’S Daddys city ? Surely U jest....
And what do those cities have in common? Democrat control
“And what do those cities have in common? Democrat control”
On the bright side though it’s mostly democrats getting shot.
Chicago homicide solve rate 12%.
12%.
That means you have an 88% chance of getting away with murder in Chitown.
Sad.
If a perp is a vaunted illegal, he might get away with it even if fingered.
Gangsters have controlled Chicago pols since before Capone. Used to be the Outfit, now it’s the Latins...
They could start by making it illegal to shoot people (oh, wait)...
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