Dwight sent over this New York Post piece on how a dozen blue-led cities have already set all-time murder records.
At least 12 major US cities have already set historical murder records in 2021, even as three weeks remain in the year.
Philadelphia, the nation’s sixth largest city, recorded 523 murders as of Dec. 7, surpassing its formal grim milestone of 500 murders, which was set in 1990, police data showed.
The City of Brotherly Love had recorded significantly more murders in 2021 than New York City’s 443, despite having approximately six times fewer residents.
“It’s terrible to every morning get up and have to go look at the numbers and then look at the news and see the stories. It’s just crazy. It’s just crazy and this needs to stop,” Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, a Democrat, reportedly said after his city broke its own infamous benchmark.
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 had their deadliest years on record, according to ABC News.
I covered Austin’s record murder rate here.
Five of those cities topped notorious benchmarks that were set in 2020, the article said. All of them were led by Democratic mayors, as are the vast majority of US cities.
Funny how that happens.
Lots of those cities (including Philadelphia) have George Soros-backed DAs who seem intent on putting violent felons back on the street to continue terrorizing law-abiding citizens.
Stephen Kruiser has additional thoughts.
To the surprise of no one on the conservative side of the political aisle, the Dem-controlled cities that are run by BLM/Antifa fans have been experiencing…struggles with crime since they were gripped by the “defund the police” frenzy in 2020.
Many of these cities hurried to hit the reset button and re-fund their police forces in an effort to combat crime. Cops haven’t exactly been willing to rush back in droves to municipalities that were gleefully giving them the finger in the name of wokeness just a year ago, but at least the people in charge are admitting there’s a problem.
That stands in sharp contrast to the approach recently taken by prominent Democrats in a couple of America’s biggest crime-riddled hellholes: Chicago and Philadelphia.
Kevin has a story about Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s “thinking outside the box” solution to her city’s infestation of thieves. She’s opted for victim shaming:
I’m disappointed that they’re not doing more to take safety and make it a priority. For example, we still have retailers that won’t institute plans like having security officers in their stores, making sure that they’ve got cameras that are actually operational, locking up their merchandise at night, chaining high-end bags. These purses can be something that is attracting a lot of organized retail theft units,”
“If only she hadn’t worn that dress…”
Stupid stores with your wares that attract the eyes of lawless scum! Why can’t you hire some aging, overweight security guards and stop making your mayor look bad? Ingrates!
By the way, Chicago is having its worst murder year since 1994 while Mayor Mouthfoot is playing make-believe.
Let us move on to Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Thugs. Rick writes about the city’s district attorney, who wants the public to know that EVERYTHING IS FINE:
Larry Krasner, the Soros-backed District Attorney in Philadelphia, wants everyone in the city to know that he’s got things under control. Sure, there’s been a record spike in homicides, but besides that, everything in Philly is just peachy.
“We don’t have a crisis of lawlessness, we don’t have a crisis of crime, we don’t have a crisis of violence,” the district attorney told reporters at a Monday press conference. “It’s important that we don’t let this become mushy and bleed into the notion that there is some kind of big spike in crime. There isn’t. There is not a big spike in crime. … There is not a big spike in violent crime. Neither one of these things is true.”
Rick goes on to explain that Krasner is engaging in some political sleight of hand here. Krasner is able to say that crime isn’t spiking because he simply isn’t prosecuting criminals who would have been prosecuted in the past. Progressive DAs are almost always pro-criminal.
Oh, wait…Philly is also in the midst of a frightening increase in homicides. The city has suffered its highest body count since 1960.
So, there is no real problem as long as you ignore the dead guy on your lawn.
(Hat tip: Stephen Green at Instapundit.)
Crime rates will continue to spiral until Democrats become more concerned with protecting law-abiding citizens from violent felons than earning social justice brownie points, or until the citizens of blue cities finally reach their breaking points and are willing to throw the bums out.
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A good place to keep track of crime in Chicago is http://heyjackass.com . It’s rather complete and documents all its sources.
From Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s tone-deaf commentary on smash and grab crimes in Chicago’s most prominent retail district:
“For example, we still have retailers that won’t institute plans like having security officers in their stores, ….”
If a security officer tackles a thief who happens to be black or Hispanic (and if he doesn’t, why should they pay any attention to him?) he, the store manager and the store owner risk being accused of racism and have their personal information posted so activists can issue death threats and picket their businesses and homes. And Lightfoot and Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx won’t do a damn thing about it.
”…until the citizens of blue cities finally reach their breaking points and are willing to throw the bums out.”
That’s assuming that the votes of those angry citizens matter. Well-funded, unscrupulous Democrat machines run most—if not all— of those cities, and I’m not sure voting out unwelcome party hacks is permitted. Nor is questioning the very existence of election fraud. To be sure, these city officials behave as though they don’t expect the overwhelming unpopularity of their policies, and the underwhelming results thereof, to have the least effect on their chances of re-election. Now why might that be?
Better dead than rude. I don’t expect the mugging of Leftists to produce many Red Pills any time soon. More likely they’ll double down in their Wokeness, arguing that they just haven’t been Woke *enough*.
And Socialism will work *this* time…Charlie Brown.
Problem is that this is the way people want it. Krasner just got easily re-elected. Ditto for Kim Gardner in St. Louis. Can you imagine Frank Rizzo winning in Philadelphia today? Or even Rudy Giuliani in New York or Jesse Helms in North Carolina?
There is a BIG pro-crime constituency out there. It intends not only to tie the hands of law enforcement (perhaps maybe that’s a good thing–keep them from committing robberies under the cover of “civil asset forfeiture”), but to compel you to bare your neck to have yourself be decapitated at the hands of a formerly “marginalized” individual and be grateful for the opportunity to do so.
Fuck that shit. Defend yourself By Any Means Necessary.
“Faster…” indeed!
A good place to keep track of all things Russ Meyer is right here:
https://lydiarghgrace.wordpress.com/category/russ-meyer/
The Philly problem is even worse than reported. Word is that PPD officers are being pressured to mark deaths as “suspicious” rather than as “homicides” (even when the circumstances of the latter are obvious). At last count, the city had recorded more than 175+ “suspicious” deaths; and it’s estimated that, but for the pressure being applied to the PPD, the actual homicide count would be above 600. Let that sink in.
The pols are getting a cut of the thievery. As for most of the murders? Look at it as retroactive birth control. Sorry guys, my patience has run out.
Wowwwwww. Philly is now the city of brotherly Hate. Bummmmmmer.
“There’s a knife sticking out of his back!”
“My, that’s suspicious! Mark as a ‘suspicious death.'”
“Krasner is able to say that crime isn’t spiking because he simply isn’t prosecuting criminals who would have been prosecuted in the past. “
Check. Murder stats are the most accurate numbers in criminology, because there’s a body.