A vocal segment of America’s inner-city blacks are protesting and agitating against aggressive policing.
Couple these protests with the arrest of cops in Baltimore for merely doing their jobs, and you have a lot of big-city cops going with a “hands off” approach to dealing with criminal suspects – particularly black suspects.
This is all in the face on increasing hostility from America’s criminal class in these crime-ridden inner-city neighborhoods.
Want to see a first-hand example of what life is like in these neighborhoods?
Not safe for work (language).
If you didn’t have your sound up, you missed one of the thugs boasting “that gun going to run out of bullets”.
Carry your gun everyday as the law allows. Carry extra ammunition. “Ammo is like bubble gum. If you don’t have enough to go around, you’re going to be in trouble.”
In our comments section earlier this month, someone wrote something to the effect of “I bet they run out of courage before I run out of ammo.”
Our sentiments exactly.
It is no wonder cops aren’t all that interested in going above and beyond what the job entails. The Baltimore Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #3 released this statement:
The criminals are taking advantage of the situation in Baltimore since the unrest. Criminals feel empowered now. There is no respect. Police are under siege in every quarter. They are more afraid of going to jail for doing their jobs properly than they are of getting shot on duty. Right now they can go to jail for following Supreme Court decisions such as Illinois v. Wardlow. The Baltimore States Attorney’s Office essentially overturned the Supreme Court’s decision. We hope that all leadership will come together to support the police to move the community forward.
The consequences of the ‘Ferguson effect’ are already appearing. The main victims of growing violence will be the inner-city poor.
The nation’s two-decades-long crime decline may be over. Gun violence in particular is spiraling upward in cities across America. In Baltimore, the most pressing question every morning is how many people were shot the previous night. Gun violence is up more than 60% compared with this time last year, according to Baltimore police, with 32 shootings over Memorial Day weekend. May has been the most violent month the city has seen in 15 years.
In Milwaukee, homicides were up 180% by May 17 over the same period the previous year. Through April, shootings in St. Louis were up 39%, robberies 43%, and homicides 25%. “Crime is the worst I’ve ever seen it,” said St. Louis Alderman Joe Vacarro at a May 7 City Hall hearing.
Murders in Atlanta were up 32% as of mid-May. Shootings in Chicago had increased 24% and homicides 17%. Shootings and other violent felonies in Los Angeles had spiked by 25%; in New York, murder was up nearly 13%, and gun violence 7%.
Those citywide statistics from law-enforcement officials mask even more startling neighborhood-level increases. Shooting incidents are up 500% in an East Harlem precinct compared with last year; in a South Central Los Angeles police division, shooting victims are up 100%.
By contrast, the first six months of 2014 continued a 20-year pattern of growing public safety. Violent crime in the first half of last year dropped 4.6% nationally and property crime was down 7.5%. Though comparable national figures for the first half of 2015 won’t be available for another year, the January through June 2014 crime decline is unlikely to be repeated.
Closer to home in Illinois, Chicago hasn’t seen double-digit increases in the numbers of homicides, but the number of people shot has spiked sharply. With an hour left in the month as of this writing, Chicago’s looking at roughly 50 additional people shot and wounded over May 2014 (320ish in 2015 vs. 270 in 2014).
We acknowledge that many of these shootings and homicides are scumbag on scumbag.
In Baltimore, for example:
Three quarters of victims and almost 90 percent of offenders had criminal records, the highest we’d ever seen, averaging 8.5 and 9.6 priors respectively. Nearly 60 percent of the killings happened in or near a street drug market. Despite the superheated street drug scene, only about 20 percent of killings had to do with drug business; the usual beefs, vendettas, and respect killings were the order of the day.
— From Don’t Shoot: One Man, A Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America by David M. Kennedy, the director of the Center for Crime Prevention and Control.
They aren’t all scumbag on scumbag though.
Kristopher Pitts.
Chicago (Tribune) – A Humboldt Park man has been charged with first-degree murder and armed robbery in the fatal shooting of a Palos Park man in the Lakeview neighborhood early Saturday, police said.
[Kevin] O’Malley, 25, was shot to death around 2 a.m. Saturday in Lakeview, police said.
Police late Saturday said Pitts shot O’Malley in the chest during a robbery. After the shooting, Pitts fled north but was caught a short time later, police said.
We might also add that some of the scumbags murdered in Chicago are sometimes quasi-famous. Take an “up and coming” rap artist “Young Pappy” – aka Shaquon Thomas.
He got his ticket punched Friday in Chi-town, just blocks from where he shot a music video released only a week ago, bragging about how rival gang members can’t shoot straight and how he will kill those “opposing” gang members if he gets a chance.
It was big talk from a little boy. Little Shaquon was a coward just like most thugs in Chicago. He died tired, running from his attacker, taking slugs in the back.
It wasn’t the first time rival gangsters tried to whack little Shaquon. From the Trib:
It was at least the third time someone had tried to kill Thomas in the last year and a half, according to police. The other two times, innocent bystanders died.
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.
What’s the solution to this?
Instead of promoting more gun control for inner city residents, we instead need to promote gun ownership for the good guys in the inner cities, so they may protect themselves, their families and their neighbors from violent attack.
6 thoughts on “BLACK ON BLACK: “The New Nationwide Crime Wave” hits inner city blacks hardest”
We can call people thugs? I thought that was the new “N” word?
Just as inner city folks benefit the most from CCW, so too do they benefit from owning guns in general!
I’d recommend any pump action riot shotgun for starters.
It will trump any ghetto thug (or non-ghetto thug) holding his Hi-Point sideways while holding his drawers up with his off hand.
Crime spiraling out of control because our streets are awash in guns – I can see the rhetoric coming already.
You don’t suppose Obama’s plan is to create crime to reverse the downward trend in crime caused by legal gun ownership…
If so, he’s doing a bang-up job.
Rham and obama are just fine with gun violence. It gives them something to ‘solve’ and demonstrate they are doing something. Black on black violence is nothing new, but making it an issue is no way to foster white guilt/taxpayer money. Sooner or later the politics of violence and race will need to be addressed. We can all be ‘equal’ under the law, but we are infinitely different… but with few exceptions, we can all be held to the same standard of behavior, though the media/leftist crowd will find any excuse for some groups bad behavior…
I don’t like to see innocent people hurt by violent crime.
At the same time, I have a limited amount of sympathy. There’s an old expression that God helps those who help themselves.
If inner city black folks are unwilling to step up to the plate to solve the violence issue in their communities, then I am unwilling to give any energy towards feeling sorry for them.
Many of them make their bed by refusing to act like responsible adults, so let them enjoy laying in it.
We can call people thugs? I thought that was the new “N” word?
Just as inner city folks benefit the most from CCW, so too do they benefit from owning guns in general!
I’d recommend any pump action riot shotgun for starters.
It will trump any ghetto thug (or non-ghetto thug) holding his Hi-Point sideways while holding his drawers up with his off hand.
Crime spiraling out of control because our streets are awash in guns – I can see the rhetoric coming already.
You don’t suppose Obama’s plan is to create crime to reverse the downward trend in crime caused by legal gun ownership…
If so, he’s doing a bang-up job.
Rham and obama are just fine with gun violence. It gives them something to ‘solve’ and demonstrate they are doing something. Black on black violence is nothing new, but making it an issue is no way to foster white guilt/taxpayer money. Sooner or later the politics of violence and race will need to be addressed. We can all be ‘equal’ under the law, but we are infinitely different… but with few exceptions, we can all be held to the same standard of behavior, though the media/leftist crowd will find any excuse for some groups bad behavior…
I don’t like to see innocent people hurt by violent crime.
At the same time, I have a limited amount of sympathy. There’s an old expression that God helps those who help themselves.
If inner city black folks are unwilling to step up to the plate to solve the violence issue in their communities, then I am unwilling to give any energy towards feeling sorry for them.
Many of them make their bed by refusing to act like responsible adults, so let them enjoy laying in it.