Have you noticed that the corporate media has been repeatedly using the word “violent” to describe what the summer of 2021 is going to be like? Many Americans believed that once Joe Biden was in the White House that all of the civil unrest that we have been witnessing would magically disappear and that violent crime rates would go back to normal. Of course neither of those things has happened. We continue to see civil unrest erupt in major U.S. cities such as Portland, and murder rates are even higher in 2021 than they were in 2020. This is a fact that was highlighted in a recent Axios article entitled “It’s set to be a hot, violent summer”…
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Sure, look at the similarities between Chicago and Kansas City. Both corrupt city governments have a gay Democratic black mayor. Both have extremely high murder totals. Both have liberal fag Democratic judges. Bothe have worthless prosecutors.
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Why is anyone surprised? Cops are understandably going to pull back when they know there s a very real possibility of being arrested, convicted by the media/Internet, and spending years in jail for any arrest that goes beyond kind words and a lollipop.
Be nice if all urban cops went on strike, nationwide, for about 5 days straight. Then you would see how well people behave when there s no fear of punishment.
It s set to be a hot, violent summer
Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios
After a year in which murders spiked in the U.S., homicides are already trending up in many cities, presaging what
is likely to be a violent summer.
Why it matters: The rise in homicides is a public health crisis that has multiple interlocking causes, which makes solving it that much more difficult. We re still a long way from the murderous days of the 1990s, but rising gun violence is destroying lives and complicating efforts to help cities recover from COVID-19.
A sample of 37 cities with data available for the first three months of 2021 collected by the crime analyst Jeff Asher indicates murders are up 18% over the same period in 2020.
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Mr Garland said last week that the department had opened an investigation into policing practices in Minneapolis after George Floyd’s killing.
An organisation representing police chiefs cautioned that such investigations should be “a collaborative effort”, and said the consent decrees that sometimes followed could prove costly and burdensome.
“Our communities don’t want less cops, they want better cops, and investments must be made in terms of training, recruitment and data collection,” said Laura Cooper, executive director of the Major Cities Chiefs Association.
“Above all, involvement and buy-in from everyone in the department is a must because without it, change and modernisation won’t take root.”