At least a dozen major US cities have shattered their murder records in 2021 – and there are still 3 weeks to go.
The nation’s sixth largest city, Philadelphia, recorded 523 murders as of Dec. 7, exceeding its former grim milestone of 500 murders set in 1990.
Columbus, Ohio; Indianapolis, Indiana; Louisville, Kentucky; St. Paul, Minnesota; Portland, Oregon; Tucson, Arizona; Toledo, Ohio; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Austin, Texas; Rochester, New York; and Albuquerque, New Mexico also set murder records in 2021, with 5 of them surpassing notorious benchmarks set just a year prior.
Nationally, homicides rose about 30% in 2020 compared to 2019, the largest single-year jump since the FBI began tracking such data.
Some criminologists have blamed the soaring murder rates on pandemic-related stress, criminals having too much free time on their hands, political and racial conflicts, anti-police rhetoric, and the subsequent retirement of police officers en masse.
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Great Title.
A whole 5 paragraph article that show that Biden has zero to do with it.
Assessing the reason for crime trends is notoriously difficult. I wonder if economic inequality doesn’t have something to do with it.
The cause of the increase is not Biden, but the abundance of guns. He has no control over local police forces and Biden’s efforts at gun restrictions have been stopped by Republicans. This week a red flag provision, which would have prevented gun sales to those with a history of domestic abuse was stripped from legislation. The problem is the availability of traditional guns as well as the ghost guns which are available online. With ghost guns one no no longer has to travel to Virginia and find a straw buyer to easily get a handgun.
All Cities controlled by criminal loving Democrats.
I agree with President Biden, Chris Wray, Kamala Emhoff, & msnbc. White Supremacy is THEE greatest threat facing this Nation. We have have got to tackle the whiteness problem in this country. From white middle class parents protesting their school boards perverted agenda, to running over people at a parade in Waukesha Wisconsin, these whites domestic terrorists are out of control. When will Merrick Garland start rounding up white folks and throw them into reeducation camps?
jackk exactly
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And if you would calculate the amount of lives that he helped save..
Interesting that the most crime ridden hubs are all in blue states.
But y’know…..Defund Police