Los Angeles: Homicides Soared 250%, Shootings 56%, During Protest Week
2:24
Homicides rose by 250% in Los Angeles, and the number of shooting victims rose by 56%, during the week ending June 6, according to the Los Angeles Police Department — the same week as the Black Lives Matter protests and riots.
The surge in deadly crimes in L.A. mirrored similar reports elsewhere in the country for the week of May 31 to June 6, when riots and looting exploded alongside “peaceful protests” against the killing of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
In Chicago, for example, May 31 marked the single deadliest 24-hour period in 60 years, with 18 people killed.
Crime escalated, in part, because police who normally would have been patrolling neighborhoods were pulled off the beat to secure downtown areas and commercial districts targeted by looters.
Ironically, L.A.’s grim week coincided with Mayor Eric Garcetti’s announcement that the LAPD budget would be cut by up to $150 million, which is more than two percent of the current total. His announcement encouraged protesters who support calls to “defund” or “abolish” the police.
The money, he said, was to be “reinvested” in “communities of color” — the same communities enduring a crime wave during the Black Lives Matter protests.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). His new book, RED NOVEMBER, is available for pre-order. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
Shootings Surge, Murders up over 100 Percent as Protesters Flood NYC
1:48
Shootings surged and murders were up over 100 percent in New York City last week as protesters flooded the streets, along with rioters who shattered windows and destroyed property.
The New York Post reports there were 13 murders from Monday, June 1, 2020, to Sunday night, June 7, 2020. There were five murders during that same time period in 2019.
Moreover, there were 40 shootings in NYC from June 1 to June 7, 2020. In 2019 “there were 24 shootings.”
The Post reported, “The increase in violence came as demonstrators marched city streets to protest the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.”
The paper described the majority of protests as “peaceful,” but noted peaceful protesters were, at times, “overshadowed by looting and the destruction of stores in several boroughs.”
On June 9, 2020, Breitbart News reported Los Angeles witnessed a 250 percent surge in murders and a 56 percent increase in shooting victims during protest week.
The surge of violence in Los Angeles was mirrored by shootings and murders in other Democrat-controlled cities around the country.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.
McCarthy: Defund Police Movement Stronger in the Democratic Party than Impeachment, Medicare for All Ever Was
1:55
Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) dismissed the claim that the so-called defund the police efforts were a step too far for Democrats.
McCarthy explained that in the past, Democrats have said other things were too much, including impeachment and Medicare for All. However, they later pursued them as policy.
“Those are the exact same words I heard Nancy Pelosi say about impeachment and then she moved forward — or Medicare for All,” he said. “Those are things that they start to say before they surrender to the socialists. This movement of defunding the police through the Democratic Party is stronger than impeachment ever was nor Medicare for All because they’re already taking actions on it. Cities are already doing that. And that’s the last thing you want to happen, and it only perpetuates the problem more. We should be providing more money to training. If you look at the recent study by the chiefs of police, 80 percent of them said there’s a greater need for training. We want the very best officers out there. So we should provide greater training.”
“We should provide better transparency — the data,” McCarthy continued. “We’ve got an FBI where individuals can put in a datasheet, but only 45% of the departments participate in that. And then you want accountability. Ninety-nine percent of all officers believe and put their — put their life on the line to protect and serve us. But what about those one percent of bad apples? We’ve got to be able to remove those individuals, and it’s normally not the first time when we see it. If we have better performance, better transparency, and better accountability, we will have a much better solution to this problem.”
Follow Jeff Poor on Twitter @jeff_poor
No comments:
Post a Comment