Congratulations, Memphis!

Breaking records!

Action News 5:

Homicides in the Bluff City have reached over 352 as of Monday, according to numbers from the Memphis Police Department, breaking the previous record set in 2021.

Shootings and killings are leaving community leaders frustrated. They say it’s time to get to the real issues that drive violent crime in Memphis.

Families of homicide victims are also fed up and still searching for answers about why these pointless shootings keep happening in the Bluff City.

“State senators like Brent Taylor think they can say, ‘Add a few more Tennessee state troopers.’ Well, Tennessee state patrol has conducted over 17,000 traffic stops since January and only made 12 felony arrests,” said Pastor Earl Fisher of Abyssinian Missionary Baptist Church.

MPD says that so far this year, there have been 298 murders and 352 homicides, which include the two victims of Monday’s deadly shootings in North Memphis.

“[This is a] 42% increase in homicides from this time last year,” said Fisher. “That only tells part of the story. It doesn’t tell the story of gun laws that have been passed in Nashville by some of the people that govern places like Shelby County that are saying we are in a warzone. You helped manufacture the warzone.”

In 2021, there were 303 murders and 346 homicides.

Fisher said gun laws need to be changed in order to bring real change.

“Open carry in the state, it’s easier, especially for Black communities and Black children, to get access to guns and drugs than it is for them to get access to jobs that pay a livable wage or equitable educations,” said Fisher.

Yeah but. Anyone can get access to guns and drugs? Maybe they shouldn’t though?

There are several reasons why people believe crime is up in Memphis.

Some cite mental health issues, while others say the poverty rate in Memphis is driving people to a survival mentally.

Hm.

It could also be that they’re doing this because they’re black, no?

We should probably at least consider that possibility.

The chief of police is a black woman

Is this good for the blacks?

Because I’ve heard from the Jews that this is what the blacks wanted and they like it.

I mean, that’s literally what they said: “the blacks don’t want police so we should remove the police from black neighborhoods.”

It’s so funny.

New York Post:

Unprecedented increases in US homicides are being met with the lowest-ever clearance rate — leaving at least half of the killings unsolved, according to alarming data and experts.

Analyses of FBI data show that 71% of homicides were deemed solved in 1980 — dropping to an all-time low of only about 50% in 2020, the last time the data were compiled.

“We’re on the verge of being the first developed nation where the majority of homicides go uncleared,” Thomas Hargrove, founder of the Murder Accountability Project, told the Guardian.

Thomas Hargrove

A graph by the group shows that the clearance rate was even higher before 1980, seemingly marked as high as 90% in 1965.

A separate graphic shows a sudden spike in homicides in 2020 — with the number marked as solved barely increasing from preceding years.

The Marshall Project — another nonprofit focused on criminal justice — also noted a “historic low” in 2020 of only “about 1 of every 2 murders” being solved.

Some experts blame the spike in 2020 on the pandemic, with the Big Apple among major cities to see shootings and murders skyrocket that year but later show signs of settling.

The Marshall Project and Murder Accountability Project compile data because there is no publicly available government database tracking homicides and the outcomes of police investigations into them.

The research is confounded by the fact that different agencies have different criteria for marking a case cleared.

For most, it means someone has been arrested, charged and turned over to a court for prosecution.

However, the FBI also allows homicides to be marked clear over “exceptional means,” including when a victim refuses to cooperate to take a case to trial or when a suspect is being tried elsewhere for other crimes.

It also applies when the suspect dies, which critics call putting “bodies on bodies” to help boost clearance numbers, the Marshall Project noted.

Some experts, however, caution that the data do not take into account key factors that have also changed over the decades — suggesting that the lower clearance rate could in fact be a sign of progress.

“It also could be that the standards for making an arrest have gone up and some of the tricks they were using in 1965 are no longer available,” said Philip Cook, a public policy researcher at the University of Chicago Urban Labs who has been studying clearance rates since the 1970s.

He noted to the Marshall Project that outrageous cases where convicts are cleared because of “shoddy” evidence were at the time listed as a “successful” homicide clearance.

You can’t help but feel bad for the blacks.

They really are helpless.

Let’s give a round of applause to Milwaukee and to Black Lives Matter.

They’re finally dealing with the black problem.

TMJ4:

The City of Milwaukee broke its homicide record for the third year in a row on Saturday, bringing the total number of homicides in the city to 194.

On Saturday, a 43-year-old man was killed near Hopkins and Hampton, the death that broke the record. Police are seeking unknown suspects in that case.

Michael Ray is a business owner in that area who says violent acts like these not only affect safety in the community, but prevent people from investing in the area.

“It’s a major setback for me being a business in this area when already a lot of businesses closed over here,” said Ray.

According to the Milwaukee Police Department’s (MPD) database and media alerts from MPD, there have now been 194 homicides so far this year. At this point last year, there were 170 homicides, and 171 in 2020.

The city had 193 homicides for the whole year in 2021, which broke 2020’s record of 190 homicides.

“To know that we are breaking the homicide record again. [It] just goes to show that we have to work a little bit harder to make sure that that devastation doesn’t continue to be a reality for people,” said the program director for the WAVE Educational Fund, Deja Garner.

Garner was born and raised in Milwaukee and told TMJ4 she has lost both friends and family to gun violence in the city.

Milwaukee police using tear gas again.

We keep us safe. Police bring us danger.

Enemies of the people, enforcers of colonial, patriarchal, anti-Black racial capitalism. Defund and abolish.

— evan (@postureless) June 23, 2020

“The work that I do in gun violence prevention is so future generations and other residents won’t have to feel that anguish and that devastation of losing someone that they love to gun violence,” said Garner.

One way she says this can be achieved is by investing more funds into violence prevention in the city.

Where are those people claiming “this is just like the 1990s”?

Oh, well. People need to cope. People have very weak minds.

Imagine that the Jews tell you that black people want to be murdered. That’s literally what they say. Blacks want criminals released from prison to murder, they want cops pulled out of neighborhoods so criminals can murder with impunity.

Personally, I’m fine with blacks killing each other. That is truly none of my business.

But you’d think the blacks wouldn’t like these policies…?

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