Are we seeing a reversal of the 20-year decline in violent crime in America? A new nationwide crime wave?
Heather Mac Donald fears we are, and as a premier advocate and analyst of the policing strategy pioneered by Rudy Giuliani in New York City and copied and adapted throughout the country, she is to be taken seriously. And the statistics she presented in an article in last weekend’s Wall Street Journal are truly alarming.
Gun violence is up 60 percent in Baltimore so far this year compared to 2014. Homicides are up 180 percent in Milwaukee, 25 percent in St. Louis, 32 percent in Atlanta and 13 percent in New York in the same period.
Why is this happening? Mac Donald writes, “The most plausible explanation of the current surge in lawlessness is the intense agitation against American police departments over the past nine months.”
That’s a reference to the reactions to the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and Eric Garner in Staten Island, N.Y., last summer, and to the death this spring of Freddie Gray in Baltimore.
The narrative propagated by mainstream media, the Eric Holder Justice Department and the Barack Obama White House was that unarmed innocent blacks were being slaughtered by racist police. “Black lives matter,” read the hashtag, as if most cops believed the opposite.
The facts of these cases, as revealed through competent investigations, did not support the meme. In one case in which video evidence did, in South Carolina, the policeman was quickly charged with murder by local authorities.
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5 comments:
This all serve the NWO agenda to nationalize police or UN occupation.
So they've learned they have a free pass to commit crimes, thanks to Ms. Mosby's infamous "stand down" order.
It's usually the inner cities that demonstrate the "increase in crime", as if they were the rectal thermometer of the mood of the entire country. The quicker they kill each other off; the quicker we can reclaim the legacy of the great cities we built.
First of all...the "Stand Down" order is a perfect example of what happens when a politician controls a police department. Nothing good can come from it. Second, the Chief should have ignored the order and restored sanity to the situation.
This militarizatilon of the police has finally shown white America the realities of the criminal justice system that black America has been subject to since the end of slavery. Now they want us all in a cell working for .15 an hour and paying .50 per minute for a phone call.
Are you aware that Ferguson, MI had the same "Safe Streets" program as Salisbury does. This program goes into problem neighborhoods and tickets and arrests everyone for the most minor violations until they can not afford to stay or they go to jail. When the Justice Department forced Ferguson to stop these tactics, the town lost their largest source of income and are struggling to get their fiscal situation under control. This is gentrification by judiciary. As an example from our own backyard I ask any parent of a white child, what would you do if you received a call that your son or daughter had ended up in a confrontation with police because they had been stopped and detained for riding a bike with headphones. If a cop stopped me for that I would ask him or her if they had lost their damn mind harrasing me over something so stupid.
I'd have a serious talk with my white child, about the danger of riding a bike with headphones on. Then my white child would be apologizing to the officer for turning it into a "confrontation". Next we'd be discussing how one is expected to respond to an authority figure who is advising them they are doing something wrong, or illegal, or stupid.
A simple "ok officer, I didn't realize it was illegal to ride with headphones on, because I wouldn't be able to hear if there was a car coming up on me" would have sufficed.
But some folks can't stand to be reminded of rules, that are there for a reason, and have to make a big deal about it because they think they're too special.
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