The recent crime numbers in NYC will soon come out, and they’re not good. Homicides this week are way up compared to last year. Of course that’s just one week… till it’s not. Shootings are up in NYC. Not Baltimore up. But up. People are dying. It is time to ring the alarm. Maybe not the crazy 5-alarm fire for…
Tag: rising crime
Too many? Too few? Or just right?
Arrests are way down in Baltimore. But not just this month (though they are) but over many years. There were 40,000 arrests in 2014 (3,300 a month). In 2003 there were 114,000 arrests. Like I said, arrests are way down. This is worth repeating because it goes against a narrative that the riots were somehow the inevitable result of overaggressive…
Deadliest month in Baltimore. Ever.
The Sun reported that this month has been the fifth deadliest in 40 years. Actually, by rate, since Baltimore has fewer people than it used to have, May has been the most deadly month ever. In number of dead, the deadliest months have been: Aug 1972: 45 Dec 1971: 44 Aug 1990: 42 Aug 1996: 39 May 2015: 42 But…
Meanwhile, roughly 1 in every 250 young black men was shot in Eastern District. Last month!
Maybe you were too busy blocking traffic into the city to notice, but this past weekend 32 people were shot in Baltimore. Nine were killed. (as usual, click to embiggen) This past weekend. In Charm City. With just over 620,000 people. Meanwhile, from April 25 to May 23, this past month, 122 people were shot or killed in Mobtown. Last…
“So what’s the big deal?”
What’s weird, at least to me, is that many (mostly from the political left) seem to dismiss the never-before-seen increase in homicides in Baltimore as just some random uptick. “You know,” I’ve been told (and more than once), “violent crime is up in New York City, too.” Are you fucking crazy?! Homicide in Baltimore is up 250 percent over-fucking-night! And…
Baltimore Homicides, pre- and post- riot
After the riots, the daily number of homicides in Baltimore more than doubled from 0.58 to 1.41. That’s a lot more dead people. 0.8 per day. (For those of you not too good with math, that’s almost one a day. And yes, Gotti, I’m looking at you.) Click to embiggen. The trendlines, pre- and post-riots, are in red. [Updated May…
Crime up in NYC (this time for real)
Compared to last year, shootings and homicides in NYC are up 20 percent. Twenty percent is a real increase. Here’s the compstat page and also a link to last week’s summary (no matter when you click the link). I don’t know why crime is up. But… I can’t help but think it’s part of (or some combination of) everything that…
Prop. 47’s effect on jail time
From LA, where Proposition 47 reclassified many crimes as misdemeanors. Drug arrests are down by about one-third. Property crimes are up nearly 10 percent. The problem seems to be this: “The new law specifies that the financial savings on the incarceration side be reinvested in truancy, drug treatment and mental health programs. But that provision does not take effect until…
Brrrr… it’s cold outside
I can’t help but notice — now that another long hot summer is done and a commie mayor and Al Sharpton are running the show and the police have been thrown under the bus and Obama is president and the ACLU stopped letting police stop criminals and there’s no more stop question and frisk and there’s independent oversight and body…
Is the sky falling?
Not yet. But the sky did get a little lower in NYC last month. Over the 28-day period ending 4/6/14, compared to 2013, the number of people shot increased 40 percent (101 vs 72). The increases were found, not surprisingly, in the Bronx (27 vs 18), Brooklyn North (28 vs 17) and Queens South (12 vs 6). Cause for alarm?…