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AP Photo/Alex Brandon We all know that murder and other violent crime has been rising the last few years. But seeing the figures in black and white, the implications begin to set in.
We’re in big trouble. And it really doesn’t matter where you live in America. Violent crime can touch you and your loved ones.
Senator Tom Cotton listed the grim statistics . New nationwide data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation reveals that last year the number of murders rose by 29 percent, drug overdose deaths increased 30 percent, and the number of gang-related killings skyrocketed more than 55 percent. To put this carnage into context, a 29 percent increase in murder isn’t simply bad, it’s the worst single-year increase in American history. Similarly, the drugs flooding into our communities aren’t only deadly, they are the deadliest drugs ever sold. For the first time ever, over 100,000 Americans lost their lives to drugs and homicide in 2020. Cocaine and heroin were bad enough. Now we have fentanyl being mixed with a variety of drugs. Fentanyl is not only wildly addictive, but it’s also extraordinarily dangerous as well. The number of assaults rose by 12 percent last year and criminal assailants committed nearly 75,000 more violent crimes than they committed in 2019. Although the total number of property crimes fell, the total cost of those crimes rose by nearly $2 billion. Recorded cases of arson also rose by nearly 35 percent , a trend that is likely associated with last summer’s BLM riots, which were the most destructive in American history. In Democrat-dominated cities, violent crime rose far more than the national average. Last year, murder rose 50 percent in Chicago , 44 percent in New York , and 38 percent in Los Angeles . The murder rate in Baltimore was higher than El Salvador’s or Guatemala’s — nations from which citizens can claim asylum purely based on gang violence and murder. We’re assured by big-city mayors and the media that the massive spike in violent crime was due to the pandemic. People were stuck inside, so naturally, when […]
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