FBI Data: Post-Ferguson Murder Spike Reaches 3,761 Dead
FBI data shows that 3,761 additional Americans have been killed in the murder spike which emerged after the Obama White House intervened in the 2014 riots in Ferguson, Missouri.
In 2016, 17,250 people were killed, up from 15,883 in 2015, and up from an average of 14,686 per year during the first six years of President Barack Obama’s term, according to the FBI data. If the extra dead from 2015 and 2016 are compared to the 14,164 killed in 2014, then
the post-Ferguson spike adds up to 4,805 extra dead.
Killings nationwide rose by almost 10.8 percent in 2015 and by another 8.6 percent in 2016. But
most of the extra killing took place in poor urban areas run by the Democratic Party, such as Chicago and Baltimore, which saw 762 and 358 dead, respectively.
In 2016, the killings jumped by 20 percent in cities with a population greater than 1 million. The 2016 murder rate was 16 percent higher than the murder rate in 2012.
Crime expert Heather McDonald
blames the extra dead on the Democrats’ efforts to stigmatize and regulate cops after Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder intervened in the 2014 Ferguson riots, which took place shortly before the 2014 midterm elections.
Who is killing these black victims? Not whites, and not the police, but other blacks.
In 2016, the police fatally shot 233 blacks, the vast majority armed and dangerous, according to the Washington Post. The Post categorized only 16 black male victims of police shootings as “unarmed” …
The reason for the current increase is what I have called the Ferguson Effect.
Cops are backing off of proactive policing in high-crime minority neighborhoods, and criminals are becoming emboldened.
Having been told incessantly by politicians, the media, and Black Lives Matter activists that they are bigoted for getting out of their cars and questioning someone loitering on a known drug corner at 2 AM, many officers are instead just driving by. Such stops are discretionary; cops don’t have to make them. And
when political elites demonize the police for just such proactive policing, we shouldn’t be surprised when cops get the message and do less of it.
Seventy-two percent of the nation’s officers say that they and their colleagues are now less willing to stop and question suspicious persons, according to a Pew Research poll released in January 2016. The reason is the persistent anti-cop climate.
In 2016, the police fatally shot 233 blacks, the vast majority armed and dangerous, according to the Washington Post. The Post categorized only 16 black male victims of police shootings as “unarmed” …
The reason for the current increase is what I have called the Ferguson Effect.
Cops are backing off of proactive policing in high-crime minority neighborhoods, and criminals are becoming emboldened.
Having been told incessantly by politicians, the media, and Black Lives Matter activists that they are bigoted for getting out of their cars and questioning someone loitering on a known drug corner at 2 AM, many officers are instead just driving by. Such stops are discretionary; cops don’t have to make them. And
when political elites demonize the police for just such proactive policing, we shouldn’t be surprised when cops get the message and do less of it.
Seventy-two percent of the nation’s officers say that they and their colleagues are now less willing to stop and question suspicious persons, according to a Pew Research poll released in January 2016. The reason is the persistent anti-cop climate.
After the riots,
Obama cultivated and supported the Black Lives Movement, and
also used his presidential powers to impose regulations of state and local police forces.
Local police chiefs and former FBI Director Comey also complained about the political and media pressure on street cops. “I don’t know whether that explains it entirely, but I do have a strong sense that some part of the explanation is a chill wind that has blown through American law enforcement over the last year,” James Comey in a 2015 speech at the University of Chicago Law School.
“We have allowed our Police Department to get fetal, and it is having a direct consequence,”
- Chicago’s Democratic Mayor, Rahm Emanuel, said during an October 2015 event.
“They have pulled back from the ability to interdict … they don’t want to be a news story themselves, they don’t want their career ended early, and it’s having an impact,” he added.
McDonald continued:
That truth has not stopped the ongoing [political and media] demonization of the police—including, now, by many of the country’s ignorant professional athletes.
The toll will be felt, as always, in the inner city, by the thousands of law-abiding people there who desperately want more police protection.
The toll will be felt, as always, in the inner city, by the thousands of law-abiding people there who desperately want more police protection.
“The media, academia, and some police officials are again twisting themselves into knots to deny that depolicing is responsible for the ongoing violent-crime increase,” McDonald reported. She continued:
The strong version of what I have called
the Ferguson Effect—a drop in proactive policing leading to rising crime—is the only explanation for the crime increase that matches the data.
The country has just elected a new president who understands that the false narrative about the police has led to the breakdown of law and order in inner cities.
If the crime situation improves in the coming year, it will be because Black Lives Matter calumnies no longer have an echo chamber in the White House and because cops on the beat believe that they will now be supported for trying to restore order where informal social control has broken down.
the Ferguson Effect—a drop in proactive policing leading to rising crime—is the only explanation for the crime increase that matches the data.
The country has just elected a new president who understands that the false narrative about the police has led to the breakdown of law and order in inner cities.
If the crime situation improves in the coming year, it will be because Black Lives Matter calumnies no longer have an echo chamber in the White House and because cops on the beat believe that they will now be supported for trying to restore order where informal social control has broken down.
Even though the increased murder rates have been clear since 2015, establishment media still focus their attention on the relatively few cases of bad cops killing ordinary young men.
