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US cities that defunded their police are continuing to experience historic crime waves


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2021 May 26, 9:08am   57,086 views  380 comments

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https://notthebee.com/article/us-cities-that-defunded-their-police-are-now-experiencing-historic-crime-waves?source=patrick.net

U.S. cities that virtue signaled by defunding their police departments are seeing record crime levels, forcing many city leaders to rethink their basic levels of intelligence.

Here's what has happened in a few cities that voted to slash police budgets:

Homicide grew by 44% in New York, which had 1,531 shootings and 462 murders in 2020.
Homicides also increased 36% in L.A. to 350, leading the police chief to say "a decade of progress" has been erased.
Minneapolis, the center of the "Defund the Police" movement, saw a 46% increase in murders.
Oakland, California has seen a staggering 314% increase in homicides.
Portland, Oregon has seen murders triple.
Austin, Texas has had a 26% increase in aggravated assault reports.
Chicago saw a 65% increase in homicides from June 2020 to February 2021, despite arrests dropping 53%.
Philadelphia hit a 30-year-high with homicides in 2020, with 499 people murdered.
Even smaller cities like Louisville, Kentucky had a record high of 173 murders and is on track to surpass that this year.
The New York Times reported that many such cities are now expanding their police budgets to try to deal with these outcomes that absolutely no one could have seen coming.


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120   Al_Sharpton_for_President   2022 Aug 29, 3:34pm  

Patrick says


https://slaynews.com/news/lori-lightfoot-must-resign-as-chicago-sets-new-carjacking-record-reports-1000-carjackings-for-year-on-august-6th/

It is the unwillingness of black leaders to recognize the dismal state of fatherless black males that is leading to increased crime. The mayor of New Orleans goes above and beyond denial, to supporting those who commit crimes.

"So, the mayor of the city, Latoya Cantrell, showed up to the sentencing, but here's the twist in the story. Mayor Cantrell didn't show up to support the victims, the women who'd been terrorized by this predator. No, the mayor showed up to support the carjacker and to let the entire city know that she was doing it, to let everyone know whose side she was on."
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-carjacking-clearest-possible-sign-civilization-falling-apart

Why fetal alcohol syndrome is bad:
121   Ceffer   2022 Aug 29, 4:11pm  

Lol! The 'Soros Fecal Impaction MKUltra Labs' where they crank out these political orcs is making them uglier and uglier. Netflix is going to have to start getting uglier white cheerleader fuckers and computer geniuses.
122   richwicks   2022 Aug 30, 2:42am  

Patrick says





Those aren't real glasses. Look at the right, there's no distortion of her face. I wear 1.25 reading glasses, the weakest you can get, you'd see distortion with mine.
123   Patrick   2022 Aug 30, 10:19am  

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/my-new-york-nightmare/


In 2019, for the first time since World War Two — except one year, 1964 — Democrats won total control of state government. And the number one item on their “To Do” list was to pass a no-jail law, requiring the immediate release of suspects arrested for basically anything short of intentional murder.

The no-jail law went into effect in January 2020.

For the first six months, the no-jail law worked great! Of course, it’s freezing from January through March and then the entire city was shut down for Covid. Apparently, street crime disappears when there’s no one on the street. But then, on May 25, a fentanyl addict was killed by police in Minneapolis, unleashing a bacchanal of violence in Democratic-controlled towns across the land.

It had taken twenty years for New York mayors Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg to round up the criminals. It took only one year for Democrats to release them.

In a total surprise to the party in power, criminals continued to commit crimes. But this time, they knew that, even if they got arrested, they’d be right back on the street in about an hour.

Despite the city being virtually crime-free for the first half of 2020, by the end of the year murders were up 44 percent, shootings up 97 percent, car thefts up 67 percent and burglaries up 42 percent. ...

On the bright side, there are a lot fewer rich people to inconvenience, what with 300,000 of them fleeing New York in 2020 — mostly to Florida — and depriving the city of $21 billion in taxable income. Let’s just hope the criminals are religious about reporting all their income.
126   GNL   2022 Sep 4, 6:31pm  

Patrick says


In a total surprise to the party in power, criminals continued to commit crimes.

Was it really a surprise to them. Me thinks everything we're experiencing is on purpose.
Patrick says


Despite the city being virtually crime-free for the first half of 2020, by the end of the year murders were up 44 percent, shootings up 97 percent, car thefts up 67 percent and burglaries up 42 percent. ...

Ok, so, almost crime free? Even a 97% surge would still make it low crime.
127   HeadSet   2022 Sep 5, 6:45am  

GNL says

Ok, so, almost crime free? Even a 97% surge would still make it low crime.

And trending upward.
129   Al_Sharpton_for_President   2022 Sep 7, 8:49am  

Wealthy mentally ill lesbian.



131   Patrick   2022 Sep 11, 1:52pm  

https://notthebee.com/article/a-guy-impersonating-a-cop-pulled-over-a-guy-who-turned-out-to-be-a-real-cop-you-can-guess-what-happened-next


Here's a bit of very useful information for anyone on the road, by the way:

"As a reminder, law enforcement vehicles come in many different sizes and shapes," Bright police officials said. "If you ever have a question about an unmarked vehicle pulling you over, please put your hazard (lights) on, continue at a safe speed, and call 9-1-1 to confirm the identity of the vehicle."
132   gabbar   2022 Sep 11, 6:36pm  

Isn't fear and chaos in the lives of ordinary people in the interest of the elites? If yes, why should there be law and order? Just playing devil's advocate here.
133   Patrick   2022 Sep 14, 8:09pm  

https://nitter.pussthecat.org/Not_the_Bee/status/1569656070037020678


@libsoftiktok
Sep 13
Newly released footage of a May robbery shows two men being robbed at gunpoint while eating in a restaurant in Los Angeles. Welcome to California.
134   WookieMan   2022 Sep 15, 4:58am  

Patrick says







Old comment, but it's why I no longer go to Chicago anymore. I hear about waaaaay more than you outsiders do (not a knock). I just have OTA TV and get the Chicago affiliate stations. So I hear the stories every morning, don't really watch. 50% of Chicago is a war zone basically. And now it's spreading into tourist areas with crime.

I believe I looked up before, but over the same time span of the Iraq war, more Americans died in Chicago ALONE than in Iraq. CPD is having record numbers of officer suicides this year. Cops are leaving in droves once vested and going to suburban departments or other states for similar pay and generally sitting around, and most dangerous part of a day would be dealing with a domestic situation instead of being shot at.

It will continue to get worse. I don't know that major cities can turn it around. It could take decade(s). Kind of late 80's-90's style. I personally don't get it. I mean pot is legal in IL now, so that crime should have dropped off the map, but bangers are still fighting for territory. Opioids are the devil man and that's what it is. Coke and crack in the same realm.

Came to find out when I was in Montana that it almost destroyed/killed the wife of a very good friend. Is a nurse, makes good money. She was fired for stealing pills at the hospital. I don't even take OTC meds for pain.

Drug thing aside, I also feel like some of the crime is just stealing from people on the street or car jacking. And that's what is happening in the tourist areas of Chicago. You cannot have a thriving city if that shit is happening.
135   Patrick   2022 Sep 23, 1:48pm  

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/cops-returning-television-cancelled-black-lives-matter-riots-george-floyd/


The long-running television show COPS is returning to television, two years after it was canceled during the Black Lives Matter riots over George Floyd.
The popular show debuted in March of 1989 and ran until June 9, 2020, when Paramount pulled it off the air in support of Black Lives Matter.
136   Ceffer   2022 Sep 23, 2:55pm  

WookieMan says


And that's what is happening in the tourist areas of Chicago. You cannot have a thriving city if that shit is happening.

Entire midwest used to go to Chicago for urban entertainment. I went every two years or so sent by my professional committee, usually in early fall. I liked it then for the days I was there, was surprised I could afford a spacious brownstone in the best leafy areas around Hancock building if I wanted to transfer my California equity.
It's reduction of more complex, advanced civilization back to feuding warlords status. Instead of feuding political factions, you have literal pidgin chieftains wandering the infrastructure shells they have no capacity to maintain. This all, of course, is the programmed destruction inflicted by the subversives and treasonistas.
138   Patrick   2022 Sep 30, 1:29pm  

https://nitter.pussthecat.org/DarnelSugarfoo/status/1575699099071881216


Rosie's NATO Application
@DarnelSugarfoo
16h
We're not a proper country anymore. Not even close.


139   HeadSet   2022 Sep 30, 2:41pm  

Must be embarrassing for that cop, be outmuscled and car stolen by that half naked woman.
140   Patrick   2022 Sep 30, 2:57pm  

True, but that was a LOT of half naked woman.
141   Ceffer   2022 Sep 30, 3:09pm  

She was schooled by the 'Grand Theft Auto' computer game.
142   richwicks   2022 Sep 30, 3:40pm  

Patrick says

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/cops-returning-television-cancelled-black-lives-matter-riots-george-floyd/



The long-running television show COPS is returning to television, two years after it was canceled during the Black Lives Matter riots over George Floyd.
The popular show debuted in March of 1989 and ran until June 9, 2020, when Paramount pulled it off the air in support of Black Lives Matter.



That show mostly existed to normalize police abuse. It happened all the time in that show. I hated it so fucking much.
143   fdhfoiehfeoi   2022 Sep 30, 7:31pm  

My Mom said they have record car theft in Denver since it was reclassified as a misdemeanor. Sounds like Denver is a year behind San Francisco, who'd of thought we'd ever say that.
144   mell   2022 Sep 30, 9:28pm  

NuttBoxer says

My Mom said they have record car theft in Denver since it was reclassified as a misdemeanor. Sounds like Denver is a year behind San Francisco, who'd of thought we'd ever say that.

It may surpass SF very soon, may already be worse crime wise
145   Patrick   2022 Oct 1, 11:24am  

https://nypost.com/2022/09/29/emt-in-serious-condition-after-getting-stabbed-in-queens/

Dead. That's a pretty serious condition.

Democrat-run cities are not safe.
146   Patrick   2022 Oct 4, 10:11am  

Democrats have many weaknesses as their failures have become obvious to all, but I think the biggest one is their toleration of and even support for violent crime.

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/i-wanted-to-leave-california-before-it-was-cool/

Perhaps the thing that has pushed me over the edge is that my elected leaders don’t care about my safety.


We should all be pointing out that the Democratic Party is the party of violent crime.
150   WookieMan   2022 Oct 22, 7:46am  

NuttBoxer says

My Mom said they have record car theft in Denver since it was reclassified as a misdemeanor. Sounds like Denver is a year behind San Francisco, who'd of thought we'd ever say that.

I go to Denver annually every year outside 2 years during covid. Since 2016, although had a few layovers overnight hotel stays as well. From my short visits it seems like there's more of a bad element there from my last visit. I usually meet up with some buddies and do a Red Rocks show run with one of our favorite jam bands.

Have a bunch of past high school classmates that moved out there. Some of my IL friends go out there to ski snowboard. Most were clean outside of booze and pot. Two of the guys living out there are now on heroin. So car theft would make sense if that drug scene is ramping up for formerly normal white guys from the midwest.

I think Denver just grew way too fast with the whole legal pot stuff and fracking. With so many legal pot states now, I just don't see the migration into CO continuing at its previous pace. Much of the migration into the Denver area was druggies and potheads that weren't generally good members of society. And not that potheads cannot be good citizens, but the hardcore ones are lazy bums. As mention before, I'm into jam bands, but never got that much into pot. The element you see at shows, especially Red Rocks is interesting to say the least. Lot o drugs.

That airport can suck a horses cock as well. If you board or deplane at the wrong gate it's possible to lose two pounds of weight with the walking just to get to the god damn baggage claim even taking the train. And the baggage claim takes FOREVER there. Last time there back in September, I think I logged 2 miles of walking in just the airport. Being hyperbolic about the weight loss, but that's a poorly designed airport.
151   clambo   2022 Oct 22, 8:04am  

People are voting with their feet; lots of people are escaping NYC, NJ, CT, MA cities and moving south.
There was once a large migration northward of blacks from the South after the Civil War.
Today there's a large migration of whites southward, to escape taxes, snow, assholes, and CRIME by blacks and other brown skinned people.
152   Maga_Chaos_Monkey   2022 Oct 22, 8:10am  

clambo says

There was once a large migration northward of blacks from the South after the Civil War.


And a lot of migration South after AC and refrigeration were invented. Not many people lived in the South at the time of the civil war because the heat and humidity are pretty unbearable without those. That's how the South wound up with so many Republicans, not some mythological party flipping the dems like to claim.
153   WookieMan   2022 Oct 22, 12:20pm  

just_passing_through says

Not many people lived in the South at the time of the civil war because the heat and humidity are pretty unbearable without those.

I don't mind it actually. IL can be just as humid and hot. I like sweating. Going to Mexico in November. Free steam room and sauna at the resort. I'll usually do a morning session around 5-6am to burn of the booze from the night before. Then drink a bunch of water to rehydrate from beer and sweating and do a couple laps walking around the resort. Then start drinking at 8-9am after a shower. Mimosa then switch to beer.

This is vacation mode, not what I do daily. If staying on resort that day the post lunch nap is critical. Just 1 hour. Then back at it. Off resort I pace myself much better. I used to get college level crazy on vacation in my 20's and even 30's. I've got the formula down now. Last vacation puke was 2020 during covid in TN. I honestly was depressed with the covid shutdown shit so I just got hammered one night. One bout of hurling and I felt better. I had fun, but that was probably the worst vacation mentally I've ever had. Other issues with the people we traveled with as well that set it off poorly.

Jesus, I'm in tangent mode lately. Sorry. TMI?
156   Patrick   2022 Oct 30, 7:19pm  

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11371201/LA-mom-speaks-husband-daughter-stabbed-death-Kohls-parking-lot.html


Heartbroken LA mom speaks out after her husband and daughter were BOTH stabbed to death in Kohl's parking lot during 'random' attack by homeless man

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