Murders this year are 33 percent higher so far than in 2019 — 246 people killed in 2019 to 327 people killed in 2020, according to New York Police Department data released Friday.
Shooting incidents are up 92% so far compared to 2019 — 608 shootings in 2019 versus 1165 so far this year.…
Among the calls that police didn’t respond to included: “Call types ranged from theft, vandalism, suspicious activity, hazards, hit and run, burglary, violation of restraining order, alarms, stolen cars, harassment and many others.”
From Fox News:
…More than 60 emergency calls to police went unheeded overnight in Portland as officers were preoccupied with hundreds of demonstrators downtown and were pelted by rocks.
Dr. John Lott appeared for a full hour of the Sean Hannity radio show on August 7th, 2020.
…John Lott, President, Crime Prevention Research Center and author of a the new book “Gun Control Myths” which was released on 7/4 and Leo Terrell, American civil rights attorney and talk radio host, find him at @TheLeoTerrell on Twitter, and Sgt.
Detroit Police Chief James Craig talked to Tucker Carlson on Fox News about why Detroit hasn’t had the riots that other cities have seen.
…I am just ecstatic over the men and women in the Detroit Police Department. One thing I learned from my time in Los Angeles: We don’t retreat here in Detroit.
Last week in a July 8thinterview with Black Lives Matter advocate Ady Barkan, Joe Biden called for police officers to be replaced with social workers.
After talking about America’s supposed “commitment to white supremacy,” Barkan went on to say: “The leaders of Black Lives Matter believe that we have been trying to reform police departments for many decades and it is not working.…
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at Townhall on the social and other problems facing police officers.
…Two police officers were murdered in Texas over the weekend, bringing this year’s national total to 34. Being a police officer is a dangerous job, but police nowadays face an additional problem: a lot of people hate them.
From fast food restaurants to coffee shops to grocery stores, police are finding that they are being refused service. The big change is that in the past the problem involved individual employees and the companies would apologize, but now it is something that the companies have often approved.
The actions by these employees and companies are engaging in discrimination against all police because they are upset by the actions by individual police officers.…
Being a police officer has gotten more dangerous. I have heard of stories where police are changing out of their uniforms before picking up their children at school, that they have moved well out of their cities, to avoid people upset with them being police. Reports are occurring across the country of police quitting their jobs (see also here).…
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at Townhall.com on Dallas’ move to institute a stronger police review board. The piece starts this way:
…Community trust is crucial to effective policing, so it’s imperative that officers not think that they can get away with misconduct. Without trust, crime victims might not report crimes to police or help solve them.
For 29 years, the National Association of Chiefs of Police has conducted annual surveys of how police chiefs view gun regulations. (Click on survey results to enlarge.) The last couple of surveys ask a different question than the earlier ones. The most recent couple of surveys ask if their department supports national reciprocity, while the earlier surveys ask if they believe that it will help them reduce crime. …
