{"id":92370,"date":"2023-05-01T01:17:35","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T06:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=92370"},"modified":"2023-05-01T01:17:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T06:17:35","slug":"92370","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=92370","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But, of course, we knew this<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/democrat-cities-have-biggest-homicide-rate-problem-study-finds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democrat Cities Have Biggest Homicide Rate Problem, Study Finds<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Democratic Party aggressively promoted the idea of \u2018defunding the police\u2019 after George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis, Minnesota, police officer in 2020, which was supposed to improve public safety. A few years later, a new study found the homicide rate in Democrat cities is on the rise and a sign progressive policies are failing.<\/p>\n<p>In a study published by WalletHub, researchers found \u201chomicide rates have risen by an average of roughly 10% in 45 of the most populated U.S. cities between Q1 2021 and Q1 2023, and are still rising.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cities with the biggest homicide rate problems include Memphis, Tennesse; New Orleans, Louisiana; Richmond, Virginia; Washington, DC; and Detroit, Michigan. Democrat mayors lead all five cities.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2023-04-30_10-45-00.png?itok=MXg9cVtY\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2023-04-30_10-45-00.png?itok=MXg9cVtY\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/2023-04-30_10-45-00.png?itok=MXg9cVtY\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"360\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"496c0ac1-a33c-4bf5-adc9-cee9b59892bd\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Researchers pointed out that murders were rising faster in Democrat-led cities than Republican-led cities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2023-04-30_09-46-00.png?itok=Dhk5jqyj\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2023-04-30_09-46-00.png?itok=Dhk5jqyj\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/2023-04-30_09-46-00.png?itok=Dhk5jqyj\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"407\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"4ef224ee-8b10-4485-8c7f-7140d83c4b5b\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Separately, Chidike Okeem, an assistant professor at Western New England University, told the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/04\/26\/murders-jumped-10-since-2021-in-mostly-blue-states-study\/\">NYPost<\/a>\u00a0that defunding the police movements directly correlates with the rise in violence.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">&#8220;As a response to the social unrest, some officers have embraced &#8216;de-policing,&#8217; which is the idea of not engaging in proactive policing practices in order to avoid increased scrutiny and censure. Without pronounced police presence, violence proliferates,&#8221; Okeem said.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A University of Central Missouri Professor, Gregg Etter, went further and blamed no-cash bail as a significant driver in the alarming rise of homicide rates in major cities.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">&#8220;If you have a problem with police use of force in isolated instances, rather than deal with the problem or the problem officers, defund the police. This results in a less-effective police force, increased response times, lower police morale, and an increasing unwillingness by the police to engage in proactive policing,&#8221; Etter said.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And it&#8217;s not just homicide rates that are moving higher. Retail thefts and carjackings are soaring. Democrats have yet to take accountability for their failed social justice reforms. As a result,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/walmart-shuts-down-four-chicago-stores-due-never-making-profit\">businesses and people are quickly exiting<\/a>\u00a0these dangerous cities for safer places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But, of course, we knew this Democrat Cities Have Biggest Homicide Rate Problem, Study Finds The Democratic Party aggressively promoted the idea of \u2018defunding the police\u2019 after George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis, Minnesota, police officer in 2020, which was supposed to improve public safety. A few years later, a new study found the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=92370\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-goobermint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92371,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92370\/revisions\/92371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}