#violent crime

[jackassdemocrats]

Biden and his open border.

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[two-40-foot-slabs]

TONIGHT AT 3:00 PACIFIC

PS2 DEMOS/VIDEOS/ERRATA

"I GOTTA GET THIS PAPER BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY"

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Mike Luckovich

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In Donald J Trump's CPAC speech, the United States is a dark and menacing place: violent crime is rampant, the economy is in free fall, people are starving in the street, and our military has collapsed in corruption and mismanagement. We are ripe for conquest by Vladimir Putin, who does everything right. But every factual claim Trump made isn't a fact; indeed, the situation is the diametric opposite of the one that Trump claims.

Here are the facts on crime. Starting in the early 1990s, crime dropped rapidly in the United States. The causes were complex — owing much to improving economic conditions and innovations in policing strategy. Following a decades-long decline, violent crime rose during the Covid-19 pandemic. In 2020, President Trump’s last year in office, murder rates climbed by nearly 30 percent and assault rates by more than 10 percent.

Here, too, the reasons are complex, but may have much to do with the pandemic. Covid-19 proved to be a generational disruptor in America, instigating social and economic hardships at all levels of society. For example, the country saw an economic decline and increases in unemployment due to businesses that were negatively impacted by shutdowns. We saw a surge in firearm ownership and shooting incidents, at least in the cities that track this data. It was also a period of tremendous isolation. After-school programs and other critical services and interventions that cities relied on to confront violence were shut down.

But since 2021, violent crime has started to fall. According to the FBI, as of 2022 violent crime rates had fallen by 4 percent and murder rates by roughly 7 percent since 2020. Preliminary data suggests those declines accelerated in 2023. In his Saturday speech to conservatives, Trump also spoke a good deal about an immigration crisis in America, making misleading statements about what he referred to as migrant crime and noting it will be “far more deadly than anyone thought.” Here, again, the former president was not truthful. There is no evidence of a migrant crime wave, including in New York City, which the former president referred to in his remarks today. To the contrary, statistics indicate that there has been no surge in crime since April 2022, when Texas Gov. Greg Abbott began bussing migrants to New York. Additionally, research reveals that undocumented immigration is associated with a decrease in property crime and additional research finds that Fentanyl is primarily trafficked by U.S. citizens.

Although violent crime appears to be receding across the nation, the American public is not fully aware of this trend. Most Americans believe that crime is rising, including 78 percent of independent voters. This gap between crime and perceptions of crime is not new — it’s a decades-long trend. Gallup routinely asks voters whether they believe crime is higher or lower than the previous year. Even in the midst of the decades-long decline in crime, between 1990 and the mid-2010s, Gallup records only two years when a majority of voters did not believe crime had risen. Although the reasons why crime increases and decreases are complicated, we know that various social, economic, and environmental factors, such as growth in income and an aging population, are significant drivers of crime rates. We also know that investing in our communities through funding after school programming, anti-violence initiatives, and safe “third places” — like parks and community centers — helps build long-term safety.

Creating thriving and safe communities are goals we can all embrace. But misleading the American public about the truth and distorting reality is not the way to deliver public safety.

[Brennan Center For Justice]

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Forget Being the World's Policeman; the Federal Government Can't Even Keep DC Safe

As the US federal government works to “bring peace” to the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and East Asia, it faces a rather embarrassing problem. There is currently a historic wave of violent crime battering the residents of Washington, DC.

With 274 homicides, 2023 was the deadliest year for the city since the 1990s. Shootings, carjackings, and armed robberies also jumped in the nation’s capital.

Parts of DC have been unsafe for a long time, but the violence is now affecting areas typically considered much safer. And members of the federal government are personally feeling it.

Last February, Representative Angie Craig (D-MN) was assaulted in the elevator of her Washington apartment building. The following month, a staffer for Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) was stabbed multiple times about a mile from the Capitol.

In October, Representative Henry Cuellar (D-TX) was carjacked at gunpoint on K Street, where many of the top lobbying firms are based. That attack was followed weeks later when a staffer for Senator Katie Britt (R-AK) was robbed at gunpoint, again a mile from the Capitol.

And the trend has continued into 2024. Last week, a former Donald Trump administration official was shot and killed during another carjacking on K Street.

Again, this ought to be especially embarrassing for the leaders of the federal government. As they try to bring peace and security to the entire world with bombs and ever-encroaching military alliances, their own staffers are in physical danger mere blocks from Capitol offices.

The federal government is in charge of most of DC’s criminal justice system, so it carries a lot of responsibility for what’s happening.

In 2021, Joe Biden appointed Matthew Graves as the US attorney in charge of the district’s justice system. By the end of his first year, Graves’s office had declined to prosecute two of every three arrests made. The next year, 2023, his office declined to prosecute 44 percent of those arrested.

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Talking about real trauma / murder under the cut be warned

I'm 5 days sober and with clarity comes the old thoughts again. My blog is where I talk sometimes, I'll try to tag appropriately

It was a year after his murder, after I found the body and caught the killer literally red handed over him, thar I went back into that room and just

Laid down

Right where I had found him

I put my body in the same position he had been in, and stared at the ceiling, wondering if he'd stared at the same spot or if he'd already been dead by the time she dragged the body that far.

I didn't stay there for long, maybe a few minutes. But I think about it sometimes. And sometimes, when I'm at that house, which i am almost every day, and I pass the room, I stare at the spot where he was. I'm the only one besides police and ambulance who saw what I saw, for they cleared him out before anyone else arrived.

Experiences like that give you feelings that are big but un-nameable

It's odd to walk past that room.

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Note: these are the lives BLM cares about:

[freetheshit-outofyou]

"Davis now remains in custody at TGK after being charged with armed robbery, attempted first-degree murder with a deadly weapon, aggravated battery on a pregnant victim with a deadly weapon, domestic battery, resisting officer without violence, criminal mischief and battery on a corrections officer.

Arrest records show he's being held on $18,500 bond." (3,700.00 and this turd walks.) I want you to take a real good look at those charges and that bail and now compare that to the no bail of Julian Khater and George Tanios "Assault on Federal Officer with Dangerous Weapon and Conspiracy to Injure an Officer" charges. The deadly weapon was pepper spray by the way, not a gun or a knife or a cooking pan.

This is why at some point the citizenry will be forced to deal with these vermin, the courts are perfectly ok with arraigning people for very violent crimes and then putting them right back on the streets with little to no inconvenience to the criminal. Before one of you bleeding hearts say "Vigilantism isn't the answer!", You are right, it's not, I am not encouraging that in any way. Everyone should have their day in court, face their accuser and present evidence in their defense, EVERYONE. What I am saying is the citizens don't have to accept being victimized by people who SHOULD still be locked up or at the very least on a very short electronic leash. When there is no real penalty for criminal activity, the law is worthless. When the law is only apply to those trying to defend their homes, their families, their livelihoods and their possessions then "The law is an ass". I wish we lived in a world where people could leave their doors open at night, cars unlocked, not worry about being robbed at gun point at the ATM, followed home from the store and robbed for taking out 100.00 at the register or sexually assaulted on a train platform just waiting to go home, but we don't live in that pipe dream. We live in a world where criminals are given more and more leeway to do the worst possible things to the population. We live in a world where people get so mad driving they shoot other drivers. A world where criminals commit violent crime and are let go on low bail or no bail to continue attacking the citizens before the victims are even out of the hospital. We will be forced to reckon this at some point, or it will be total criminal rule with the protection of the political body supporting them over the citizen.

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