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| -Lurid Crime Tales- |
| The New Nationwide Crime Wave |
| 2015-06-01 |
| [WSJ] The nation's two-decades-long crime decline may be over. Gun violence in particular is spiraling upward in cities across America. In Baltimore, the most pressing question every morning is how many people were shot the previous night. Gun violence is up more than 60% compared with this time last year, according to Baltimore police, with 32 shootings over Memorial Day weekend. May has been the most violent month the city has seen in 15 years. In Milwaukee, homicides were up 180% by May 17 over the same period the previous year. Through April, shootings in St. Louis were up 39%, robberies 43%, and homicides 25%. "Crime is the worst I've ever seen it," said St. Louis Alderman Joe Vacarro at a May 7 City Hall hearing. Murders in Atlanta were up 32% as of mid-May. Shootings in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #8 Instapundit |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-06-01 15:19 |
| #7 g(r) .. remind me not to be drinking coffee when reading your replies...stings my nose when I spray it out laughing...obviously channeling the Harfster |
| Posted by: Warthog 2015-06-01 15:10 |
| #6 Unexpectedly. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-06-01 13:45 |
| #5 This is how the current DoJ and their urban foot soldiers are essentially establishing "banlieus" here in the US, with the exact same results as in Europe. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2015-06-01 13:16 |
| #4 Amazing what happens when you replace Rule Of Law with Rule Of Mob. Who would have thought? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2015-06-01 11:46 |
| #3 I blame O, Holder and some blue city mayors for this drum beat. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-06-01 08:36 |
| #2 The Milwaukee numbers are most disturbing; cynical me suspects people are purposely being killed as a way of hurting Walker. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2015-06-01 08:03 |
| #1 There is no perfect. There is, however, anarchy. Little Somalias coming in your very near future. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-06-01 07:40 |