By Tina Moore, Larry Celona and Amanda Woods
June 19, 2020
"Shootings are surging this week in New York City, with 27 incidents and 36 victims reported since Monday — the day the NYPD disbanded its plainclothes anti-crime unit, The Post learned on Friday.
By comparison, the same week last year there were only 12 shootings for the entire week.
“This is what the politicians wanted — no bail, nobody in Rikers, cops not arresting anyone,” one angry law enforcement source said Friday.
“All those things equal people walking around on the street with guns, shooting each other.”
The shooting spree includes at least four murders, sources told The Post."
metmike: Many, many more black lives will be lost because of this ludicrous, entirely political and counterproduce idea.
Critics see Chicago as emblematic of chaos that could follow decreases in police funding. Experts say the relationship between policing and gun violence is nuanced.
CHICAGO — Over Memorial Day weekend, Chicago experienced its most violent day in 60 years, with 18 people killed and more than 45 others shot in 24 hours.
metmike: Why about those black lives?
"The 'defund the police' narrative unnecessarily puts police and communities in competition with each other for funding. It shouldn't be an either/or question. It should be a both/and question," said Abt of the Council on Criminal Justice, who wrote the book "Bleeding Out: The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence — And a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets."
"In Chicago and across the country, police are a necessary but not sufficient aspect of violence reduction," he said. "We absolutely need more anti-violence programs that do not rely on the police, but we need those in addition to the police, not instead of the police."
metmike: Amen!
https://www.wxyz.com/news/detroit-homicides-up-30-non-fatal-shootings-in-the-city-up-by-nearly-50
DETROIT (WXYZ) — The city of Detroit is seeing an increase in criminal homicides and non-fatal shootings compared to this time last year.
Police say many of the murders in Detroit have stemmed from unresolved arguments that escalate to gunfire. The numbers of murders and non-fatal shootings are both higher than what was seen this time last year, police officials say.
Last year, the city saw 99 criminal homicides. As of June 18, 2020, there are 129 homicides, which is a 30 percent increase. The city had 266 non-fatal shootings in 2019. That has increased to 397 so far this year – a 49 percent increase.
And although homicides and shootings are up, robberies are down by 3 percent in the city, with 891 being reported by June 18, 2020, compared to 914 in 2019.
"I know I have a lot of groups who have approached the Detroit Police Department about how we got to get cops back in neighborhoods," Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan said.
Defunding the police in Minneapolis. Exactly the opposite of what they need!
The area, also known as East Town, was part of the nearly two-thirds of the city's 81 neighborhoods that saw an increase in overall crime in 2019, from the previous four-year average.
Reported crime is skyrocketing in Minneapolis’ Downtown East neighborhood, stretching police resources and shaking many residents’ sense of security.
Serious crimes such as robbery, burglary and assault rose by 70% last year in the rapidly developing neighborhood compared with recent years, according to a Star Tribune analysis of available police data. An increase in property crimes drove the uptick.
The area, also known as East Town, was part of the nearly two-thirds of the city’s 81 neighborhoods that saw an increase in overall crime in 2019 from the previous four-year average. Meanwhile, 30 neighborhoods — including several in north Minneapolis — saw crime decline or hold steady, the analysis found.
Using Police Department data, the Star Tribune identified the neighborhoods that posted the highest percentage increases in what officials call “Part I” crimes, which break down into eight categories: murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny, auto theft and arson.
Speaking at a recent public hearing, Police Chief Medaria Arradondo noted that such crimes rose citywide last year. Notably, he said, increases in domestic violence “still continue to drive many of our Part I numbers.”
“As we start into 2020, we’re still seeing issues involving gun violence,” he said, while noting that despite the continuing problem of shootings, fewer are tied to gang activity than in years past.
https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/mn/minneapolis/crime
Downtown crime is up 30% the past three years, according to the Downtown Seattle Association, but even those numbers ignore a wide swath of criminal activity, says Rod Kauffman, president of the Building Owners and Managers Association Seattle King County, known as BOMA. The industry trade group represents more than 270 companies in King County that own or manage 65 million square feet of commercial real estate.
A recent BOMA survey of its members reveals building owners and managers are underreporting crime by a staggering 80%.
“There’s ample video evidence,” Kauffman says. “We’ve had the same perpetrators enter our members’ buildings downtown over and over again, even after being identified and arrested. They are brazenly back the next day.”
Two reports released last year prove as much. Both the “System Failure” report and its follow-up, “System Failure II,” lay the blame squarely at the feet of the Seattle City Attorney’s office. The second report — which was released last October — notes:
The Seattle City Attorney’s office declines to file charges in almost half of all nontraffic-related criminal cases that Seattle police refer for prosecution.
The report concedes that the criminal justice system may not be the best solution for addressing issues that are often the root cause of criminal activity — such as mental illness, substance abuse and homelessness. Seattle is recognized as a national leader in offering programs to assist individuals struggling with behavioral disorders that can lead to repeat criminal offenses, but such programs alone can’t address those issues adequately absent a functioning criminal justice system.
Mayor Jenny Durkan said as much during a recent presentation at the Downtown Seattle Association’s annual meeting.
“We need to devote more resources and create more partnerships to deal with the mental health and addiction problems,” Durkan says. “We also need to invest in programs that help youth, provide needed social services and keep them away from gangs. Public safety requires a strong police presence, but also a strong, committed [community] effort to lift up families while also ensuring those who commit crimes are held accountable, and also get the training and other services necessary so they can reenter society. Those are significant challenges and we need to find the resources [to accomplish it].”
“My fear is, a lot of our elected leaders think we can’t really address the crime issue until you address the drug and mental health issues, which are huge,” he says. “But crime needs to be addressed concurrently with other efforts, and I don’t see how our elected leaders are thinking that way. Our employees and tenants are afraid.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/seattle-mayor-summer-of-love
metmike: The article above and the majority of citizens in that area surely would not describe it as a "Summer of Love"
And millions of voters all over the country watching think "Yeah, the dems will give us more of this. I CAN'T WAIT to vote Trump out!!"
A few incoherent speeches from "Sleepy Joe" will surely seal support for the dems. :-)
That’s precisely why I said I think the polls are going to improve for Trump. Actually, there are hints that they’re already improving. Strongly criticizing the recent anarchy/rioting/looting/hatred of police as an institution is going to help him/hurt the Dems, who typically are weak on this issue/on the wrong side of the issue of citizen safety. Combine that with Biden looking kind of weak recently. A good number of moderates and independents who were ok with Biden before the rioting and promotion of police hatred are now going to second guess themselves as they see the radical wing of the Dems trying to control him. They may not vote for Trump due to his being a total jerk and a frequent liar, but it the same time it may coax them to vote third party or write-in. Watch the polls over the next few weeks and see if they tighten. I think they will.
It would take something very dramatic for Trump to lead in nation wide polls unless New York and California were excluded, but it will not take much of a stretch for him to win the electoral college and the dems seem more than willing to do everything in their power to see that happen.
Biden will not motivate and many voters are looking at the goings on today in disgust, if not outright fear.
"I really don't like Trump but howwy kwap!!"
I agree Larry,
The dems, who try their best to define everything Trump represents and does as bad, then define their altrustic belief system as the complete opposite of his have made a massive blunder on law and order.
They are doing a great job at convincing people that republicans and Trump are the party of racists and Dems are the party for blacks and minorities but they went too far in pushing this into the land of police racism by calling for defunding of police and Trump's version of law and order being extreme and theirs being less police.
In a country that has rampant violent crime in many urban areas its sort of interesting. Those areas ALWAYS vote democrat and they always have the highest crime rates. Something like the top 20 cities with the highest crime rates are run by democrats. Part of this is just the fact that urban areas will always have more crime and people in urban areas will always vote democratic vs it entirely based on failed policies of democrats there..........which gets plenty of blame.
So the people most hurt by police defunding will vote for the party that is for it and the party that is against it, living in safer rural settings may FEEL the most threatened by it.
But this is Trump. At least 80% of people already know they will vote against or for him with more certainty than any person in history at the stage before the next election.
It's the other 20% that are mostly telling us they are for Biden in polls right now that will make the difference.
If Trump could control what he says and does for 5 months, he could beat Biden but he won't because he can't.
The rally in OK for instance. That was really stupid during a pandemic and apparently very few people were wearing masks. There is a 100% chance that the entire MSM will be looking at daily COVID numbers from OK during the next month. If they go higher, even just for a few days, it will be the top story and entirely blamed on Trump's rally and we will be told(at least on CNN) that his selfishness is causing deaths..........and I really can't make a case to disagree with them.
Out of 19,000 at the rally(and many more outside) how many do you think had COVID?
Let's say enough to spread it to 100 people(considering the environment, its possible to be much more). Out of those 100 people, who were mostly young and healthy and not likely to die, 1 could die but then, those 100 go out in the community and spread it to a bunch of other people and it could be 1,000 new cases by the end of the month and a dozen new deaths........hypothetical but very plausible.
Being behind in the polls and a narcissist, is causing him to be desperate and take chances like this..........with peoples lives. Dumb.
However, people from the other side have gathered by the millions with no condemnation because it was for their just cause. I contend that EVERYBODY was already convinced of the cause(the need for police reform- including police) and agreed 100% about George Floyds death and the violence in many places and calls for defunding police actually have been very counter productive and made things more divisive and worse.
At least nobody at the rally was burning down buildings, looting and vandalizing businesses, throwing bricks or shooting. Yeah, I know most were peaceful but the violent ones turned off more people than the peaceful ones turned on.
Why do we know that? Because almost everybody was ALREADY turned on in a big way for the just cause for the protests. Why preach to the converted choir if your preaching is going to include things that turn them off?
Sorry but the protests caused more harm than good to race relations and more divisiveness, partly from the violence and partly because one side and the MSM twisted the dynamics to make it a divisive them and their righteous cause against the other side that was against their righteous cause(which is a lie-the other side is just for law and order and police- not against fighting racism)
Five children were among the 14 people killed, including a 3-year-old boy and 13-year-old girl killed in separate shootings in Austin on Saturday.
Chaz shooting: violent crowd prevented access to victims
Started by metmike - June 22, 2020, 3 p.m.