bill: the irony is they were jumpers. dana: the gutfeld show you are on tonight. bill: come back. dana: love to have you. invite us to nashville, too. bill: it s an amazing town. we re full. bill: we re checking out the attic. your attic. dana: i ll check it out. thank you so much. fox news alert. america s violent crime crisis casting a dark shadow on the nation welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom. bill: i m bill hemmer. nice to see you. we re seeing the same kind of figures showing more homicides than covid deaths in chicago and philadelphia and washington, d.c. as well. in washington mayor bowser wants to hire more cops after the city council voted to defund the police. bill bratton last hour with us putting his finger on another big problem. prosecutors who are soft on crime. like most of the prosecutors
for everybody now across the state. bill: mike, you said they are going to target certain law enforcement. why would this not be targeted against all law enforcement in washington this started basically in seattle. all of this reform work has been long in the process of occurring. now the seattle activist class has impacted our politicians in olympia and it s across the state. that s what is tragic about this whole reform movement courtesy of seattle s activist class. bill: seattle police retirements in 2020 and 2021. last year 180, this year 70 thus far. here is your homicide and shooting rates. 2020 versus 2021 year-to-date through june homicides up 5%. shooting incidents up 41, wow.
in this country in major cities are focused on defending the criminals than defending the public and the victims. that s part of the problem that we are in the midst of this reform movement that is going too far too fast. dana: david spunt is live in washington at the justice department. hi, david. bill: these numbers are not moving in the right direction. if you ask any authorities including d.c. police chief other d.c. officials say they re concerned about the violent trend they re seeing in washington, d.c. let s take a look at these numbers comparing homicide deaths with covid-19 deaths. 21 homicides in all of july in washington, d.c. 8 deaths from covid-19. in chicago dana 95 homicides from june 30th to july 27th. 31 deaths from covid-19 in the same period. in philadelphia 40 homicides from june 28th to july 25th. 13 deaths from covid-19.
and they continue to push this accountability march. what it has done is it s completely made our jobs extremely difficult and we ve lost up to 300 officers now who have just had enough. i m really concerned about where we go from here. how can you find a quality human being to want to put the uniform on and do this job under this unreasonable scrutiny? it is time the reasonable citizens literally need to wake up. start at your local school board. get involved, support your police. then start at your city council. then you have to connect with your representative at your state capitol. right now this is it. and we re under such pressure to just fill the basic patrol responses in the city of seattle that bill, i don t know where we go moving forward. this is not alarmist. this is the reality.
of keeping going, the official just basically says you guys want to share this? everybody gets a gold medal? i agree. i was talking to my boys the other day about college football. that used to have tons of games that end in ties and they were blown away at the idea there were ever ties. what do you mean? they would play the whole four quarters and the game would just end in a tie? yeah, the game ended in a tie. my kids and i think most american sports fans would say it defeats the entire purpose of having the competition. we don t play to win in a tie. when an nfl has an extra overtime and ends in a tie, people feel like they bill: i never knew in the olympics an athlete can refer to the rule and say can we just split it? dana: can we be done? i want to go have a beer. that s fine if the rules allow it. most people want to see a champion crowned and why we watch competition.