A Dozen US Cities Blow Away Their Annual Murder Records — With One Glaring Thing in Common – Opinion

First, the “good” information — and I say that sarcastically.

Whereas Los Angeles, New York Metropolis, and Chicago — which leads the nation with at the very least 739 murders this yr —  stay beneath their respective report annual murder charges of the Nineties, at the very least 12 massive cities throughout America have already damaged their annual information. These cities have one factor in frequent:

They’re all run by Democrats.

No less than a dozen U.S. cities have already damaged murder information with three weeks left within the yr. 5 of those cities have damaged information that had been set final yr.https://t.co/Rtg8oweqDu

— Information 5 WCYB (@news5wcyb) December 9, 2021

Lots of the identical Democrat cities, by the way, whose metropolis councils have supported the Defund motion in a single style or one other because the early days of the “peaceable protests” within the aftermath of George Floyd’s demise, cashless bail, and treating violent criminals’ cell doorways like revolving doorways. Go determine.

All Democrat-controlled metropolis governments. Each one in all them.

The numbers are staggering, as reported by Day by day Mail.

Philadelphia has recorded 521 murders, breaking its report from 1990 and surpassing New York and Los Angeles. Indianapolis, Louisville, Toledo, and Baton Rouge have already damaged information that had been set simply final yr. St. Paul, Portland, Austin, and Rochester shattered long-standing homicide information from the Eighties and 90s. The metrics present a number of frequent denominators, however none extra obvious than, you guessed it:

Each single one of many above cities — and others — has lengthy been managed by Democrats.

BREAKING: Philadelphia now has MORE murders than NYC and LA in a single yr https://t.co/z1cQrd2zS1

— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) December 8, 2021

Not solely did Philadelphia’s earlier annual murder price stand for 30 years till this yr, the “Metropolis of Brotherly Love” and its 521 homicides YTD blows away New York Metropolis at 443 and Los Angeles at a paltry [sarc] 352. What the hell’s occurring? You bought it:

Democrat metropolis governments that pander to violent criminals.

Philadelphia Nears 500 Murders in 2021; Mayor Needs Gun Management To Fight It https://t.co/Iuw3P1Yhwv

— Thomas Paine (@Thomas1774Paine) November 30, 2021

As retired NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce advised ABC Information:

No one’s getting arrested anymore. Individuals are getting picked up for gun possession they usually’re simply set free again and again.

Hear, I’m not LeBron James on the subject of famous regulation enforcement specialists however it doesn’t take a prima donna flopper on the courtroom to understand once you fail to harshly disincentivize violent criminals, they have a tendency to proceed to commit violent crimes. Wait — LeBron doesn’t perceive that, however you do.

One want look no additional than Portland, Oregon — the hood decoration of the super-liberal Pacific Northwest — for an ideal instance of “oops.” By way of Day by day Mail:

In progressive Portland, hovering crime prompted the town council to final month restore $5.2 million of the $15 million it minimize from police budgets throughout final yr’s Black Lives Matter protests.

Portland has recorded extra murders this yr than a lot bigger San Francisco, and has roughly twice as many homicides as its bigger neighbor, Seattle.

‘Many Portlanders not really feel protected,’ Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, a Democrat, acknowledged. ‘And it’s our responsibility, as leaders of this metropolis, to take motion and ship higher outcomes inside our disaster response system.’

[Now says the buffoon who all but donned a Black Lives Matter cheerleading uniform and picked us his Antifa pom-poms to before entusiastically heading to the streets of his own city throughout night after night of rioting in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death.]

Portland’s police division has struggled to maintain up with the hovering crime price amid an acute staffing scarcity and price range cuts.

In Indianapolis, the homicide tally shattered final yr’s report excessive in early November, famous Day by day Mail. Democrat Mayor Joe Hogsett has blamed what he calls the “public well being disaster” of gun violence. Nonsense, Joe — the general public well being disaster is violent criminals on the streets. Grabbing weapons from law-abiding gun homeowners doesn’t cease unhealthy guys with weapons from committing violent crimes.

Hogsett in November even mentioned “COVID-fueled disruptions to violence discount have had lasting results” within the metropolis. Bullcrap, Joe — I reside right here. Lemme get in another shot at Hogsett for naively saying the next, as transcribed by Day by day Mail:

We proceed to encourage all residents to do their half to resolve disputes with out weapons, and to work with regulation enforcement to carry accountable those that select violence.

Oh, okay, Joe — how ’bout you head right down to West twenty ninth and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., or Mass Ave and East thirty fourth Avenue, some evening, and preach that nonsense. Condolences to your loved ones, in the event you do.

The listing goes on, as reported by Day by day Mail, from Columbus, Ohio, to Louisville, Kentucky, to Austin, Texas, and past. And you already know what? The track stays the identical. Sing it with me:

They’re all run by Democrat metropolis governments.

However you already knew that.

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