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#democracyViolent crime is up. Violent crime and murder rates are certainly up around the country compared to recent years (crime, more generally, is often down). The FBI should release final data for 2020 in the fall, although this year it has changed the way it collects data on violent crime, so it will be difficult to compare year over year. Murder rates, already creeping up from a low of 4.4 murders per 100,000 people in 2014, certainly increased during and now after the pandemic.The national murder rate of around five murders per 100,000 people in 2019 -- is about half its all time recorded high in 1980, when more than 10 Americans for every 100,000 were murdered. Covid, by comparison, has killed more than 183 Americans per 100,000 people, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
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harlie Wilson, Cleveland Larkin, and Willustus “Lusk” Holley were walking down a dirt road in rural Slocum, Texas when they were blindsided by a mob of armed white men. On their way to tend to family livestock on July 29, 1910, the three black teenagers became the first casualties of what would turn out to be a shameful massacre — with groups of white Texans going from road to road, house to house, shooting black citizens. Wilson and Holley survived the attack, but Larkin succumbed to the injuries.
The ensuing bloodshed lasted for at least two days, spilling to the south in Houston County. Black residents hastily gathered what belongings they could and escaped across creeks to wooded areas and marshes. Some families fled to the nearby town of Palestine, while others trekked farther. During the panic, they had no choice but to leave behind loved ones who’d been killed along the roads and in the woods of Slocum.
As the violence intensified, local officials turned to Texas Governor Thomas Campbell, and a company of U.S. cavalry troops and Texas Rangers were brought in to quell the situation.
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(CNN)The post-reopening murder wave is about to become a major subject of conversation. Murders have gone up in 2021, and the summer -- high season for homicide -- is just getting started.
This new societal crisis is already turning political:- President Joe Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland announced new measures Wednesday to respond to this rising crime wave.
- Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, a former New York Police Department captain, is leading the pack of New York mayoral primary candidates as counting entered the ranked-choice phase. He ran a law and order campaign far from the "defund the police" chants that echoed among liberals on Twitter last year.
- Republicans are likely to carry the perception of the nation's cities overrun by crime into the 2022 midterm elections.
- The political divide on crime will grow as Biden and Democrats focus on guns, which are involved in most murders, as the root of the problem, and Republicans blame liberal mayors and governors and lax attitudes toward policing. "We will make sure you can't sell death and mayhem on our streets," Biden said on Wednesday. "It is an outrage. It has to end and we will end it."
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ROCHESTER, N.Y., June 25 (Reuters) - Elijah Ross stood watch last Friday by the candles, flowers, liquor bottles and balloons at a memorial for his 31-year-old friend, Eric Ruise, among the latest victims of a murder spree gripping the city of Rochester, New York.
It had been two days since Ruise was gunned down in a barrage of bullets, from multiple shooters, outside a pharmacy. Ruise had been recently released from prison. He had committed, Ross said, to be a better father to his 10-year-old daughter, Jumyria.
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During the course of the pandemic, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has proven several times over that he’s the most corrupt and harmful Governor in the nation. From his lies about COVID death totals, to his punishment of the researcher who blew the whistle, to his partisan rollout of the vaccine, the only real question has been whether his corrupt actions are going to end up getting him criminally indicted.
Sometimes the coverup ends up being what takes a corrupt politician down. So it’s notable that after Orange County, Florida dared to provide ABC News affiliate WFTV with some basic vaccine statistics, the DeSantis regime cut off Orange County’s access to the database in retaliation.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The mother of a Black man fatally shot by a white former Nashville officer sobbed, screamed and knocked over a courtroom lectern Friday as she begged a judge not to accept a plea deal she says was struck in secret without her knowledge, a chaotic scene that briefly delayed the hearing before the judge accepted the agreement.
Former officer Andrew Delke pleaded guilty to manslaughter over the death of Daniel Hambrick, 25, in 2018 as part of an agreement with prosecutors.
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“I informed the organizers in a meeting last Friday that the (body-worn cameras) were ordered, and should be received by the end of summer,” Capello told LebTown in an email. “After the training of all officers, the City would implement the program and we believe that we are on target with the date I provided last year of having the program in place by the end of the year 2021.”
City officials are working through a grant process to provide funding for the cameras, she said. They got a price estimate for the gear last Sept. 22, she said, and submitted a grant application through the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency on Oct. 15. Formal notice of a grant award was received on Feb. 1.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Sacramento Police Department is investigating a shooting that left one man dead and another man critically injured in the Arden Arcade area of Sacramento.
The shooting happened in the 200 block of Cadillac Drive, which is across the American River from Sacramento State University. The location appears to be a gated apartment complex.
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At least 150 people were killed in hundreds of shootings over the Fourth of July weekend, according to CNN, as Chicago saw its deadliest weekend of violence so far this year.
Citing data compiled by the Gun Violence Archive, CNN said the US had seen a surge of 400 shootings over the weekend.
Ex-officer pleads guilty to manslaughter; family blasts deal
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The mother of a Black man fatally shot by a white former Nashville officer sobbed, screamed and knocked over a courtroom lectern Friday as she begged a judge not to accept a plea deal she says was struck in secret without her knowledge, a chaotic scene that briefly delayed the hearing before the judge accepted the agreement.
Former officer Andrew Delke pleaded guilty to manslaughter over the death of Daniel Hambrick, 25, in 2018 as part of an agreement with prosecutors.