[Fox News] Guess what they have in common? Besides Democrat shithole machines? You KNOW the media won't say it...
Five major U.S. cities are currently on pace to break their homicide totals from last year, continuing a violent trend that started in 2020.
Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Baltimore, Milwaukee, and Atlanta have all seen homicide numbers outpace their mark from 2021 halfway through this year, with Milwaukee seeing the largest spike of the group, according to crime data reviewed by Fox News. Wisconsin's largest city has recorded 96 homicides as of June 17 compared to 77 at this time a year ago, a 24.7% increase.
The numbers continue a trend that has plagued the country since 2020, when homicides in the U.S. increased nearly 30% compared to 2019. That trend continued last year, with the Council on Criminal Justice statistics showing homicides across the county in 2021 increased 5% over 2020.
The nation's capital has been another victim of the trend in 2022, recording 93 homicides as of June 17 compared to 82 at this point a year ago, a 13.4% increase. Atlanta's increasing rate came in just behind Washington D.C., with homicides as of June 11 coming in at 68 compared to 60 at the same point in 2021, a 13.3% increase. Baltimore (7.7%) and Los Angeles (7.3%) have also seen increased over last year, recording 153 and 162 homicides respectively, an increase over 2021's year-to-date totals of 142 and 151.
Experts warn that crime tends to surge in the summer, giving major cities little hope of slowing down the rising trend.
Debate on the cause of the recent spike in crime has raged since 2020, with many experts blaming the pandemic and accompanying closures, restrictions, and isolation for a spike in crime. Others have pointed to the "Ferguson effect" or more recent "Minneapolis Effect" for the increases, which resulted in less active policing during times of increasing crime.
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despite 6 killings yesterday, Chicago is running about 8% below last year's homicide pace
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06/21/2022 8:55 Comments ||
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Not to worry. A hot spell the rest of the week will get things moving...
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The Red Sox started hitting well as soon as it warmed up, so I don't doubt it!
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despite 6 killings yesterday, Chicago is running about 8% below last year's homicide pace
Maybe they've already killed so many that they're running low on shooters and targets.
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Newsome’s theory of Red State violence falls apart when the data is sliced and diced. Dem control and gun control make for urban shooting galleries. Defunding and hamstring police contributes while a Soros funded DA is the cherry on top of the pile of carnage.
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[ZeroHedge] Over the past few years we've noted with increasing frequency that billionaire George Soros has funded or supported far-left political candidates for office around the United States, particularly District Attorneys whose soft-on-crime policies have led to historic crime waves in major cities across the country.
It goes far beyond what we've reported, however.
Twitter researcher 'crabcrawler' (@crabcrawler1) has assembled perhaps the most comprehensive look at Soros-funded DAs, and how their absolute miscarriages of justice led to a crisis of confidence in the US legal system.
In an impressive Twitter thread that's too lengthy to feature in its entirety (one can click on any of the tweets to dive in), crabcrawler illustrates how Soros DAs were supremely incompetent while operating under the guise of providing "reforms" that did nothing but create chaos.
Right. Where to begin? A week or so ago, a report came out about how George Soros is funding prominent District Attorneys and the like.
[ET] While there is growing speculation that federal agents and Capitol Police were involved in instigating acts of violence during the Jan. 6, 2021 protests and recording responses for the purposes of entrapment, evidence now proves that “plainclothes” members of a special Electronic Surveillance Unit (ESU) were embedded among the protesters for the purposes of conducting video surveillance. Evidence also points to a day of security deficiencies and police provocation for the purpose of entrapment.
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If their role was to deescalate the situation, then neutralizing the instigators like Ray Epps should have been job one for them. At best they were ineffective. Likely, they were gathering info as part of the plan.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
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Apart from Ray Epps we don't have much evidence of FBI instigation on January 6 and, with Merrick Garland at DoJ, it's unlikely that we ever will. However, with all the federal fuck ups in recent years, the suspicion comes easily and naturally.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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When at least a few of the guards were ushering protesters in, while other guards were locked in hand-to-hand, or actually shooting a protester.....evidence might suggest someone 'didn't get the memo' or an out of control situation existed, or perhaps both, appears likely
[Red State] Joe Biden has crossed another major milestone, and I’m not talking about him setting records for presidential vacations, ice-cream eating, or inflation.
According to polling aggregate site 538, which has a hard-left bent on its editorial side, Biden is now the most unpopular president in recorded history at this point in his tenure. Just in his second year, he is more unpopular than any of his predecessors where polling data exists, stretching back nearly 90 years.
OUCH: Biden is now the most unpopular POTUS in *United States history.
Now has the all time worst POTUS approval at the 517 day mark, per @FiveThirtyEight . *Data began in late 30's by @Gallup https://t.co/iWWiTK0eZU #ncpol #ncga #ncsen pic.twitter.com/RF4PcNsFyx
— Mike Rusher (@mjrusher) June 20, 2022
No other president has managed to sink as low as Biden has by the 517-day mark. Even Donald Trump, who often sat in the low-40s in approval surveys, mostly due to personality disagreements, wasn’t this far down in the aggregate by his second June in office. Heck, things are so bad that you can’t even use the word "polarizing" to describe Biden anymore because he’s not actually that polarizing. Instead, he’s just widely disapproved of by a large majority of Americans.
None of this is surprising. On Monday, the president made it clear that the pain is the point, bleating while on vacation (again) that crushing inflation and gas prices are a chance to "make a fundamental turn" toward green energy. Biden is telegraphing to Americans that he wants them to hurt, and Americans have gotten the message. Further, as former Obama advisor Larry Summers said on Sunday, there is no historical precedent to taming this kind of inflation without a recession. In other words, things are actually going to get worse.
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06/21/2022 11:59 ||
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7 in 10 dems still approve of Bidet. Never has it been more reasonable to say that dems are totally out of touch with reality.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
06/21/2022 15:30 Comments ||
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Even Donald Trump, who often sat in the low-40s in approval surveys, mostly due to personality disagreements,
Horsefeathers. It was Russia-Russia-Russia that drove down Trump's numbers (bottoming out in the summer of 2017) AND increased Trump's 'personality disagreements.' A twin-win for Hilly-O.
Posted by: Bobby ||
06/21/2022 16:11 Comments ||
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[HOT AIR] Rep. Sharice Davids (D., Kan.) has called for a total ban on members of Congress owning stocks in order to "restore trust" in the government. So it’s puzzling that Davids owns shares of three green energy firms that regularly lobby Congress for subsidies.
Her investments in FuelCell Energy, Maxeon Solar Technologies, and SunPower Corporation total up to $17,000. All three companies lobby Congress for green energy tax credits and other incentives, and Davids is in clear position to implement policy that impacts her investments—the Kansas Democrat sits on the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, which has helped shape the Biden administration’s green-friendly infrastructure spending initiatives. Davids has said she would use her position on the committee to explore investments in infrastructure projects as "an effective way to combat the effects of climate change."
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"Restoring trust"....? Well intended, but possibly a bit late. A "total ban" on democrats (and many republicans) would be more effective. Simply vote them out.
Term limits are desperately needed. Sick, power hungry octogenarians are the last thing we need.
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Rather than "term limits".. a "one and done" amendment is needed, otherwise, the professional politicians will just take a term off and then come back and pick up where they left off.
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I agree that term limits would help - the Founders did not envision professional politicians. Congress was not supposed to be a lifetime job.
A solution to the stock problem could be that all members are required to put their stock assets into a blind trust, managed by some investment firm.
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[NYPOST] Pro-choice activist muppets protested outside Supreme Court ...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations... Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s house over the weekend, donning fake-blood-stained clothes and holding baby dolls.
The protesters marched to the judge’s Falls Church, Va., home Saturday and held signs including one with a coat hanger on it that said, "Not going back."
The youth activist muppets, part of a group called Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights, tied their hands together with tape and held the plastic baby dolls.
"This is what Amy’s America looks like," one protester Ariana, 15, said in a video the group posted. "Children will be forced to give birth to children. Women will be silenced. Women will be invalidated. Women will be told they are less than.
"And that is not OK. We cannot let that happen. ... You can’t let this future happen to us. It’s not fair."
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Let's take this a step further, using their own logic.
If parents determine the child is worthless or a harm to society, they should be given the right by law to Terminate Offsprings up to age 17?
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NN2N1 that actually would be a great premise. The opposite of Logan's Run with kids forced to defend their worth. Maybe instead of aborting the 17 year old they get forced into some kind of penal battalion in the war against Eastasia.
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During Roman times a man inspected a baby and decided whether to recognize the child as his. Defective or rejected babies were left outside or “exposed.” The goal of the modern eugenicists is to incrementally reinstate the practice, thus the name Pro-Choice. In Roman times the servants would sometimes take the rejected children to the Christians instead for mercy. Modern Pro-Choice Christians are fundamentally divorced from Truth.
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...I would love to ask these little angels what part of their performance they expect to sway me.
I'm a pretty reasonable guy - make your case like something resembling an intelligent person, and I'll listen. On the other hand, behave like a spoiled brat who thinks they can shock me into giving in...and you're liable to be there for a while.
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Let's take this a step further, using their own logic.
If parents determine the child is worthless or a harm to society, they should be given the right by law to Terminate Offsprings up to age 17?
Now that would make a great ScFi Movie....
Saw a movie which made me think just this, and can't remember the name of it. Small production and budget I'd guess, but really well written, acted, and produced especially considering.
Dystopian future, humanity's survivors are left in a rather nice looking oasis. Everyone is heavily sedated, especially emotions, gotta take pills every day. Oldest child gets chosen to be the next 'Librarian', giving him access to the archives which includes emotions of events. Has to learn to handle emotions. Quits taking his meds. Baby sister is deemed too curious or something, disappears one day, and only older brother notices, nobody else has any memory. IIRC the parents take the baby in and they have no memory of it. Eventually he becomes a problem with the authorities and he has to plan his escape before he disappears.
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re #1 and 6: I remember a science fiction story where kids were subject to abortion up to age 12 or 13. At any time, a parent could revoke their "Certificate of Desirability" and a government van could pick the kid up and take the to a euthanasia clinic (sort of like today's animal control vans).
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^ China does similar, not at any parent's behest, but because the gummint decides the individual in question is worth more "parted out..."
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Red State] Joe Biden has crossed another major milestone, and I’m not talking about him setting records for presidential vacations, ice-cream eating, or inflation.
...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...
