Posted on 09/04/2022 1:28:13 PM PDT by grundle
Seattle notched its deadliest month in recent history this August and is on track to set a 25-year record high in fatal shootings, according to police.
"This is one of our highest years, and we are on pace to exceed the last two years, and this has been a concerning trend," Interim Police Chief Adrian Diaz said last week of fatal shootings in the city, according to King 5. "We are passing our 25-year high that happened just two years ago."
The Seattle Police Department confirmed to Fox News Digital that it recorded 11 homicides for the month of August. Police data reviewed by Fox News Digital show that August 2022 had the highest number of homicides recorded in a single month since at least 2008 — the year that's the furthest back on the Seattle Police Department's Crime Dashboard.
The previous record in the city was nine homicides in June 2021. Seattle had averaged roughly three homicides every August between 2008 and 2021, meaning this year’s August saw a roughly 267% increase compared to the previous 14-year average.
Seattle notched its highest number of homicides in 26 years in 2020, at 53. Last year saw 42 homicides in the city, while 2022 has already recorded 27, King 5 reported.
Seattle’s data on homicides follow a national trend from 2020. FBI data show murders increased by nearly 30% in 2020, marking the largest single-year increase in killings since the agency began tracking the crimes. The data show murders disproportionately affected Black Americans, at a more than 32% increase compared to 2019.
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Leave it to the commies to F up a beautiful place.
I’m getting tired of these far hard left liberal sanctuaries wasting ammunition.
Boo Hoo.
Elections DO matter, as it turns out.
Let them rot in the filth they created.
Sad, a beautiful place destroyed by marxist/liberals.
It will take at least 4 times the cost to bring back Seattle than what it cost to maintain the city.
Fuqum. I went to UW in the late 80’s and early 90’s. The writing was on the wall for the take over of ultra PC dirty stinkin’ hippies even back then
Gee, that’s a shame.
Yes, if left up to government.
Filth like that tends to spread.
Down 600+ cops.
Open borders streets awash in drugs.
Drugs essentially legslized.
Thousands of “homeless”.
Bail reform means few get legalized. Trials 3 years behind arrests.
What could ever go wrong?
“The data show murders disproportionately affected Black Americans, at a more than 32% increase compared to 2019”
Ah there it is......another story conveniently omitting who purpotrated these crimes......which tells me it’s ALSO minorities.
More crime was the plan, right?
Reparations is what it really is.
Show of hands?
Who though de-funding the police and releasing prisoners from jail/prison at a fast clip was going to slow down crime?
Buhler? Buhler?
“It will take at least 4 times the cost to bring back Seattle”
It’ll be a while if ever......that POS mayor just took office in January
I think they’re passing a two year high since the number two years ago set a new bar from the previous record. Just sayin’.........
What a wonderful place to vacate
I took 2 sems at WSU before heading to Stanford middle 2000. Back then, it was already heading to the sh*ts. While Seattle libs thumb their noses all the time in eastern WA, I felt safer and at home there than one night at the already crime-riddled fish market.
Excellent!
Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of Intellectual, Elite, Prog Leftist Democrats!
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