[ April 23, 2024 ]
When Democrats run cities – they run them right into the ground. They’ve ruined them all.
Baltimore Surpasses Highest Murder Rate Ever
By James Barrett, DailyWire.com, December 30 2019:
altimore has registered a grim new record in its crime statistics. Over the holiday weekend, the city suffered its 343rd homicide of the year, surpassing its previous high of 342 and setting a new record for killings per capita.After seeing declining numbers, homicides began to increase dramatically in 2015 following the infamous case of Freddie Gray, which some blame for encouraging a more “hands off” approach by law enforcement.
Story continues below advertisement“Baltimore police recorded the 343rd homicide of the year Saturday with the fatal shooting of a 32-year-old man in the Belair-Edison neighborhood,” the Baltimore Sun reports. “Shortly before 11 p.m., city officers found the man lying in the 4300 block of Dudley Ave. in an area south of Belair Road and two blocks from Herring Run Park. The man had been shot multiple times and later died in an area hospital.”
The outlet notes that the murder followed just two days without a fatal shooting in the city. The previous murder took place Thursday night.
As The Associated Press details, with its 343rd fatal shooting of the year, the city has now officially reached “a historically high homicide rate.”
“With just over 600,000 residents, the city hit a historically high homicide rate of about 57 per 100,000 people after recent relentless gunfire saw eight people shot — three fatally — in one day and nine others — one fatally — another day,” AP reported Friday. “The new rate eclipses that of 1993, when the city had a record 353 killings but was much more populous before years of population exodus.”
To highlight how dire the situation is in Baltimore, AP notes that New York City, which has a population of over 8 million compared to Baltimore’s 600,000 residents, had recorded 306 homicides through Dec. 15.
Baltimore’s previous record for the number of homicides in a year was 342, the number fatally shot in the city in both 2017 and 2015. Beginning in 2015, the city has recorded at least 300 homicides per year.
After seeing a decline in the murder rate, killings spiked dramatically in 2015, the same year that Freddie Gray, an African American Baltimore resident, died while in police custody. Gray’s death caused a massive uproar in the city, sparking protests and riots, in which police were reportedly told by the mayor to “stand down.” Fox News reported at the time:
Despite a firm denial by Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, a senior law enforcement source charges that she gave an order for police to stand down as riots broke out Monday night, raising more questions about whether some of the violence and looting could have been prevented.
The source, who is involved in the enforcement efforts, confirmed to Fox News there was a direct order from the mayor to her police chief Monday night, effectively tying the hands of officers as they were pelted with rocks and bottles.
Asked directly if the mayor was the one who gave that order, the source said: “You are God damn right it was.”
Many have blamed the fallout of the case for the increase in crime in the city, maintaining that the backlash against the police and the pressure from elected officials has resulted in a more “hands off” approach by officers.
Others, as AP explains, have blamed the spike in crime as the result of a confluence of factors, including access to illegal guns, the opioid epidemic, social inequalities, lack of jobs, and political incompetence.
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20 Comments
4 years ago
Cut off the welfare and food stamps and arm the working class
4 years ago
Democrats never care about victims.
4 years ago
As long as its not straight white males and non coal burning females…kill away, this saves us money in the long run.
4 years ago
Trump needs to stay as far away from these White-Black Liberal Progressive cesspools as possible !!
Homelessness, High Crime and Drug use,….. they want to lure Trump into a win-less fight, and graft more Federal dollars with absolutely ZERO results !!
4 years ago
Reply to
Anthony Silvio
As a tax payer, I don’t want to PAY for their intentional destruction.
WHY REWARD THEM?
What incentive will they have to stop the destruction if they re always bailed out?
I’d rather see the money go to ICE, more police, more WALL and more deportation.
4 years ago
Reply to
Anthony Silvio
If he doesn’t make an attempt to fix this, he will be branded “racist”. The implication is that this is a black problem without stating it as such. But if you say it is a black problem, again, you are a “racist”.
4 years ago
The levels of achievement striven by libturd controlled areas is just proving how ignorant and criminal they really are!!! Nothing but feral animals parasites!!!!
4 years ago
Off Topic 4000-5000 caught on Mallacoota Beach, Victoria, Australia sheltering from fires
Does not sound good for those trapped on Mallacoota Beach east Victorian Beach
4 years ago
Baltimore is a prime example of what happens when politicians coddle criminals. . Baltimore’s former mayor, Democrat Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, proudly announced in 2015 that she was giving space to looters / arsonists so they could destroy property more easily.
The criminal element in Baltimore took that sentiment to heart. Now, violence and murder is out of control.
It’s not just the homicides: commercial robberies In Democrat run Baltimore are up ..
4 years ago
Reply to
taxpayer22
Police were told to STAND DOWN by the then black female Mayor.,
Sheila DIxon. How Ben Carson could call HER a “nice person” is beyond me.
4 years ago
Jesse Jackson must be so proud of his youts. I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
4 years ago
Elijah Cummings’ legacy…….
4 years ago
Everybody is free to kill everybody – inclusion, marriages between humans and animals, killing of new borns, gender chaos, choice of lawlessness, incest, purges…
Brutal hedonism – why not?
At the very end everybody has to die.
4 years ago
Maybe the best thing to do is leave Baltimore alone. Let them kill each other and allow nature to take its course. If there are not enough good people in Baltimore to take over the situation themselves then maybe they will leave too.
4 years ago
They need Giuliani as mayor and not liberals. To add to white hate, are racist like Farrakhan, Obama Sharpton etc. The liberal Jews gave money and their lives to help blacks and they hate them!
4 years ago
Trump needs to leave this one alone. He called Baltimore a “shithole” before, or referred to it in similar terms because of exactly this sort of thing. He now has to let them all stew in their own juices and sort their own problems out. From reading this comments they will have a hard time doing so, who in their right mind would tell the copers to “Stand Down” when the re are riots and looting in the streets? As the old adage goes, “You get the government you deserve”. Sounds like this is ringing the bell of truth for Baltimore. BTW, I am watching this circus from Down Under and I do wish everyone the best for the troubled times which have been created, they did not just happen of their own accord.
4 years ago
socialism=anarchy=martial law=police state
