By Daniel Greenfield, FPM
Two quotes from a New York Times story on the FBI crime report.
There is no precedent for last year’s increase in the murder rate. The previous largest one-year increase was 12.7 percent in 1968…
Previously, the largest one-year increase in total number of murders was 1,938 in 1990. The F.B.I. data shows almost 5,000 more murders last year than in 2019, for a total of around 21,500
A 29% increase is unprecedented. And the numbers unsurprisingly align with the spring and summer of Black Lives Matter riots. The numbers don’t carry a racial breakdown, but black men tend to be shot in disproportionate numbers in black-on-black crime.
In the past I have zoomed in on the Black Lives Matter effect locally.
In 2014, 189 died. And then Baltimore came under assault from Black Lives Matter over the Freddie Case leading to riots and the Ferguson Effect crippling law enforcement efforts… An additional 131 black men died in 2015 in Baltimore.
471 black people were murdered in Chicago this year. That’s up from 401 last year and 353 from 2014.
But 2020 was the 9/11 of BLM’s attack on America. And the results appear to have been equally devastating.
So what!!!!!!!!
BLM like Antifa, a tool of the elito-kleptocracy!
Liz, I concur 100% BLM is evil!!
BLM is a truly evil organization. It is culturally Marxist and wants to destroy families, religions and whole economies. It hides behind a slogan that sounds so worthy, so innocuous, that nobody with a heart could fail to agree with – but it is significant that those who add ” because every life matters” are publicly reviled. But the slogan that black lives matter only makes sense if all lives matter!