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Carjackings in Chicago are on pace to set a new record high, breaking the record set in 2021 and representing a sixfold increase over the number of incidents in 2014.

Chicago carjackings are on pace to rise again in 2022 after already dramatic increases in 2020 and 2021, trending towards a number that would be six times higher than just eight years ago.

"We’re 500 officers short"

Seattle was a city at the heart of the defund the police movement in 2020. The city has since faced a staffing crisis among law enforcement, and high number of homicides in 2020.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed joined the chorus of liberal leaders across the country that vowed to defund the police after the murder of George Floyd in 2020.

Chicago police have arrested the fewest number of suspects in at least 20 years amid a crime wave that has continued raging in the city since 2020.

Chicago notched a record-low arrest rate in 2021, with arrests made in only 12% of crime cases that year compared to the 2005 record-high of arrests made in 31% of cases.

If we look at the Uvalde tragedy from the distance of a satellite image of the U.S., we may be shocked to see the faint outline of an emerging Chinese flag.

Business owners in New Orleans are complaining about surging crime in the city, which has seen its murder rate spike to levels close to highs recorded in 1994.

A study examining crime in Portland found a 144% increase in homicides from Jan. 2019 to June 2021, and a 241% increase non-fatal shootings in from Jan. 2019 to Dec. 2021.