Anyone want to shop at Target in Minneapolis today? (George Floyd police brutality death)

[Dan Druff]

Murder is up in other Democratic-run cities, yes. But the spike is worse in some cities than others. This coincides with the cashless bail system in NY (which has one of the worst spikes in shootings), as well as the COVID-19-related release of violent criminals in all of these places.

So gimmick, if you were thousands of times more likely to die from a violent criminal in your community murdering you than the police murdering you, which problem would you say should be a priority to take care of?

Somehow Democrats believe that racist police are the primary source of murder and unjustified assault against black people, yet that accounts for less than 0.1% of all such violent crime against black people.

Nobody wants to talk about the horrible murder rate in mostly-black neighborhoods, committed by career criminals with an existing long violent history -- guys who should have been locked away a long time ago.

Democrats call it "mass incarceration" to imprison any more than a proportionate population percentage of black people (regardless of how much crime they actually commit), so they will absolutely never advocate longer sentences for these criminals.

The key to saving thousands of black lives per year lies in putting away violent criminals for longer, but the left won't do that. The left doesn't want any reform which punishes anyone besides Conservative Whitey.

Before covid murders were down in NY. Should we attribute that to reform? They were at the end of June down 20% from 10 years ago and almost 80% from 27 years ago. Should we also attribute that to reform?

Oh look everyone, gimmick is using the old leftist trick of comparing numbers to "10 years ago" and "27 years ago", in order to avoid dealing with spikes in crimes due to dumb policy.

The US had a long-term crime reduction across the board between 1992 and 2013. I've posted about this many times. While the exact reason for this obviously can't be proven, it was largely attributed to tougher sentencing for violent criminals and a bigger police presence in troubled areas.

Then 2014 happened. Ferguson. Policing was changed. They became afraid to do their jobs. People in bad neighborhoods no longer worried about (nor respected) the police, because they no longer had to. This is known as "The Ferguson Effect", and it caused an instant spike in crime which continued ever since, especially in major cities run by Democrats.

Now these policies have been compounded by the idiotic release of violent criminals due to COVID concerns (even young and healthy ones), along with the moronic cashless bail systems.

Also, where are you getting the data of crime being down in NY before COVID? Everything I have read indicates a rise in crime ever since the cashless bail system was put into place in November 2019. Yes, COVID worsened the situation, but mainly because of the release of violent criminals -- again, an idea from the left.

How about just admitting that your side sucks balls at crime and punishment?

Why is it always the cities under decades of Democratic rule the ones with the worst crime issues? Just a coincidence? Trump's fault somehow?