Friday, December 10, 2021

Faster, Blue Cities! Kill! Kill! Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog

Faster, Blue Cities! Kill! Kill! Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog

"Dwight sent over this New York Post piece on how a dozen blue-led cities have already set all-time murder records.

At least 12 major US cities have already set historical murder records in 2021, even as three weeks remain in the year.

Philadelphia, the nation’s sixth largest city, recorded 523 murders as of Dec. 7, surpassing its formal grim milestone of 500 murders, which was set in 1990, police data showed...

I covered Austin’s record murder rate here.

Five of those cities topped notorious benchmarks that were set in 2020, the article said. All of them were led by Democratic mayors, as are the vast majority of US cities.

...Rick goes on to explain that Krasner is engaging in some political sleight of hand here. Krasner is able to say that crime isn’t spiking because he simply isn’t prosecuting criminals who would have been prosecuted in the past. Progressive DAs are almost always pro-criminal.

Oh, wait…Philly is also in the midst of a frightening increase in homicides. The city has suffered its highest body count since 1960.

So, there is no real problem as long as you ignore the dead guy on your lawn...Read all.

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