Thursday, April 13, 2023

DEMOCRAT-CONTROLLED SANCTUARY CITIES AND AMERICA'S CRIME TIDAL WAVE - NYPD: New York City Saw 100 Murders in First 99 Days of 2023

 

NYPD: New York City Saw 100 Murders in First 99 Days of 2023

TERENCE P. JEFFREY | APRIL 13, 2023 | 2:36PM EDT
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(CNSNews.com) - There were 100 people murdered in New York City in the first 99 days of 2023, according to data published by the New York Police Department.

The NYPD’s latest “CompStat” report, which was for the week that ran from April 3 through April 9, indicates that there were 7 murders in New York City that week. It also indicates that there were 30 murders in the last 28 days and 100 from the beginning of 2023 through April 9. (April 9 was the 99th day of the year.)

The 100 murders committed in New York City through April 9 of this year is down from the 111 that were committed in the city through April 9 of last year, according to the CompStat report.

In addition to the 100 murders committed in New York City through April 9 of this year, the NYPD reports that in that same period there were 408 crime complaints for alleged rapes, 4,102 for alleged robberies, and 6,742 for alleged felony assaults.

In the same period in 2022, there were 441 complaints alleged rapes, 4,251 for alleged robberies, and 6,216 for alleged felony assaults.

Through all of 2022, according to the NYPD, there were 438 murders in New York City—or an average of one every 20 hours.

 

If Chicagoans Want to Reduce Crime, Why do They Keep Voting Left?

MICHAEL LETTS | APRIL 13, 2023 | 11:31AM EDT
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When Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot lost her bid for re-election last month, most people assumed the largest contributor to the loss was the rampant crime in the city. A poll conducted Jan. 31 to Feb. 3 found that 47 percent of likely mayoral election voters identified crime and public safety as the most important issue in determining their vote.

“Throughout her term, she has been criticized for her soft-on-crime approach, which has led to massive increases in violence in the city, which is up 52 percent from last year and more than 100 percent from 2021,” according to the UK Daily Mail.

Chicago Police statistics show that during Lightfoot’s time in office, crime was up 19 percent in the city. 

While some categories have decreased, murders have increased 20 percent since 2018, and shootings are up 19 percent. Motor vehicle thefts saw the largest increase of 114 percent over that time. Criminal sexual assaults decreased (down 4 percent), but this is not enough to improve the city’s violent image, especially among its residents.

Voters believed Lightfoot wasn’t doing enough to fight crime and voted her out. Not only did she lose the primary, she came in third in field of nine candidates.

Lightfoot is the first black woman and openly gay mayor of Chicago. She is also the first Chicago mayor in 40 years to lose a re-election bid.

Brandon Johnson is now mayor elect. 

As such, the people of Chicago shouldn't expect things to improve. They will get the kind of government they voted for, which is simply more of the failed status quo.

It should be obvious that if they wanted to see a change for the better in the city’s crime rate, then they needed to make a real change and not just continue on the same path.

But it seems they chose the guy whose biggest claim was that he was more left than the other candidate. What are they thinking?

Among the 25 largest U.S. cities, San Francisco has had the highest property-crime rate in four of the most recent six years for which data is available, bucking the long-term national decline in such crimes that began in the 1990s. Property crimes declined in San Francisco during the first year of the pandemic, but rose 13% in 2021. Burglaries in the city are at their highest levels since the mid 1990s. There were 20,663 thefts from vehicles last year—almost 57 a day—a 39% increase from the prior year, although still below the record of 31,398 in 2017, according to the police. 

                                                                           Zusha Elinson


How The Left Killed Our Great Cities

Welcome to the real-world impact of "progressivism."

Mark down Tuesday, April 4, as the night Chicago died.

That’s when we learned that Second City voters narrowly elected Brandon Johnson as their next mayor. This is a city that was flattened during the reign of Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who lost in the first round of voting for Chicago mayor because she didn’t finish in one of the top two spots. Lightfoot, elected in 2019 after a career as a federal prosecutor who then held several appointed positions in Chicago, shut down the city for more than a year during COVID-19. She also bankrupted small businesses, allowed rioters to burn down whole neighborhoods, presided over the worst crime wave in 50 years and let the schools go to hell.

Now, the voters have selected Johnson. Elected to the Cook County Board of Commissioners in 2018, Johnson narrowly won the mayoralty of America’s third-most-populous city on April 4 over Paul Vallas, a former Chicago schools CEO and a Democrat who presented himself as a political moderate compared to the far-left Johnson.

The incoming mayor may turn out to be a worse mayor than Lightfoot. Johnson’s occupation is an organizer for the teachers unions. The unions spent several million dollars on the race. They got their man.

What this means is that Chicago’s municipal government will now be a fully owned subsidiary of the Chicago Teachers Union. (Can you imagine what the union contracts are going to look like?) This is a city where, in roughly two dozen schools, zero children can read or write at proficiency level.

Johnson said that crime and shoplifting from local schools are societal problems. And he may continue Lightfoot’s policy of not prosecuting people who rob stores — often owned by minorities.

It’s not just Chicago that has become a war zone. Portland, Seattle and San Francisco were not so long ago the crown jewels of the West Coast. They were said to be progressive cities that worked. No more. Now, they are unlivable. San Francisco is overrun with homeless people on seemingly every downtown street corner, feces on the sidewalks and trash everywhere.

In Portland, major businesses are pulling out in the aftermath of the takeover of the radical anarchists during COVID-19. Crime is so rampant that Walmart recently said “adios,” shutting down its last store. Rains PDX, a clothing store in Portland, shut down last November after a string of break-ins made it impossible to stay open. This printed sign pasted on the door says it all:

“Small businesses (and large) cannot sustain doing business, in our city’s current state. We have no protection, or recourse, against the criminal behavior that goes unpunished. Do not be fooled into thinking that insurance companies cover losses. We have sustained 15 break-ins … We have not received any financial reimbursement since the 3rd.”

For the first time, Seattle is losing population. To be “progressive,” Seattle is imposing a massive capital gains tax increase — socking it to the rich. So they are fleeing the city and Washington state.

One of the nation’s top demographers, Wendell Cox, has been analyzing the just-released Census Bureau data on county population. He found that “during the late 2010s and before the pandemic, population growth and domestic migration transitioned toward smaller metropolitan areas from larger ones. That outmigration is accelerating.”

The nation’s 10 largest counties have lost more than 1 million residents since 2019. The biggest losers have been the counties that are home to New York and San Francisco and Chicago’s Cook County. Even Los Angeles County, the nation’s most populous county, with just under 10 million people, is now contracting.

Welcome to the real-world impact of progressivism. Instead of worker paradises, the Left has transitioned our once-shining cities into slums, murder zones, homeless encampments and boarded-up stores. They have become cults of economic and political quackery — and tragically, few Democrats have the courage to speak out. They are worried about being called racists when the reality is that the victims — of terrible public schools, high murder rates and an anti-business creed — are the minorities they say they care so much about.

The three poisons of America’s leftist cities are 1) high taxes, 2) schools that don’t educate and 3) crime running rampant. As mayors such as Rudy Giuliani of New York City proved in the 1990s after the Big Apple had been driven to its knees, all it takes is committed leadership to fix these problems. Things can change quickly, as they did in Manhattan.

The fact that Chicagoans have elected not a reformer, but a deformer, suggests that inner-city residents still don’t get it — or they don’t care. Or they are all on the payroll of the city governments that are going bankrupt. Alas, our cities can’t be saved if the voters in these metropolises don’t want to be saved.

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