Thread: Murders Are Up In New York, Other Cities

Our politically correct media once again keeps the word illegals out of this article. If you look at some of the cities mentioned, you can figure out that some of those numbers include those murders committed by illegals.


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Murders Are Up In New York, Other Cities
(AP) NEW YORK Gangs, drugs, easy access to guns and a disturbing tendency among young people to pull guns to demand respect were among the causes authorities cited in trying to explain this year's increase in murders in New York and many other major cities after years of decline.

The number of murders reached its highest levels in a decade or more in some places, but some big cities, including Los Angeles, reported drops in the number of murders.

New York reported 579 homicides through Dec. 24 — a nearly 10 percent increase from the year before. The spike mostly reflects an unusually large number of "reclassified homicides," or those involving victims who were shot or stabbed years ago but did not die until this year. Thirty-five such deaths have been added to this year's toll, compared with an annual average of about a dozen.

At the same time, Police Department spokesman Paul Browne noted that this year's total comes after last year's 539 homicides — the city's lowest death toll in more than 40 years.

Browne blamed the rise in part on the availability of guns, particularly weapons from out of state. The city this year sued dozens of out-of-state gun shops that it says are responsible for many of the illegal weapons on the city's streets.

In Chicago, homicides through the first 11 months of the year were up 3.3 percent compared with the same period in 2005, reversing a four-year decline.

Houston police attribute a 15 percent increase in the homicide count to the influx of Katrina evacuees from the Gulf Coast.

"So we expect that to settle," Lt. Murray Smith said. "We're hoping it will go down."

Some cities, such as Cincinnati — which has had 83 homicides so far, up from 79 in 2005 — posted their highest numbers ever. Others saw their highest death tolls in years.

Oakland, Calif., had 148 homicides as of Wednesday, up 57 percent from last year. The number was the highest in more than a decade.

Philadelphia's 2006 homicide total was 403 as of Wednesday, the first time the number has topped 400 in nearly a decade. There were 380 murders in 2005.

Philadelphia officials have struggled all year to reduce the violence. In July, Mayor John F. Street gave a televised address in which he pleaded with young people: "Lay down your weapons. Do it now. Choose education over violence."

In New Haven, Conn., homicides were up this year by more than 50 percent, to 23 as of Tuesday. Police chief Francisco Ortiz said young people were too quick to use firearms.

"They're all struggling with this thing about respect and pride," he said. "It's about respect. It's about revenge. It's about having a reputation. It's about turf, and it's about girls."

Los Angeles' total was down about 4 percent to 464 homicides through Dec. 23. San Francisco's fell about 15 percent. San Francisco Police Sgt. Steve Mannina said the drop is partly due to increased patrols in violence-prone areas and the approval of more overtime.

New Orleans, with its post-Katrina exodus, is the only major U.S. city that saw a sharp decline in the number of homicides. Police spokesman Sgt. Jeffrey Johnson said there were 154 in New Orleans this year as of Monday, down from 210 in 2005. But the city was largely empty during the fall and winter of 2005-06, and even now has only about half of its pre-Katrina population of 455,000.

The FBI does not release its national crime statistics until several months after the end of the year. The bureau's statistics for the first six months of 2006 showed an increase of 1.4 percent in the number of murders in the first half of 2006 compared with the same period in 2005.

Andrew Karmen, a criminologist at John Jay College in New York, said that while there are various theories for the drop in murders in New York and other cities in the 1990s, no one knows for sure why they decreased. He noted that police departments tend to take credit when the murder toll goes down.

"When crime goes up, it will be interesting to see whether they will accept responsibility," Karmen said.

(© 2006 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

And sadly the crime rate will continue to climb, and more and more Americans will be victims of these illegals until Americans stand up and quit being the victims. Officials know these crimes by illegals are on the increase but in reality do nothing. Goodness they want to give them all amnesty! Even one American being murdered or raped or a child molested is one too many!

Seems a simple senerio. More illegals more crime. Hell what do they have to lose their already outlaws!!!

I know we have had illegal crime in South Florida. The first one that comes to mind is the Guatamalan woman who killed her newborn baby. Then there was a family from Central America who paid smugglers to bring the son over to join them years later. He was angry and jealous of his anchor baby sister and after sometime he ended up killing her. I am trying to remember if this was this year or last year.
Then there were many in Broward County. Three illegals got arrested in Hollywood for raping a woman on the beach at 3 am. An illegal Mexican who was kicked out in february and returned, got into a fight and killed a roomate in Hollywood and injured another who stopped the fight. Two illegals from the Bahamas were in a car driven by another man who shot and killed one sheriff's deputy and injured another.
The list is probably even longer as the Sun-Sentinel has actually came out and said illegal or they made it very obvious without saying illegal. In third world Miami it is more hush hush. Illegal is only used in stories where they try to get sympathy for the murderer as in the case of the woman who killed her baby. Even in the case of the boy who killed his sister they still tried to use the sympathy ploy. The excuse was that she was born here and had the good life as he lived in poverty in Central America. Give me a break!

Hi Swatchick,

The logic that these people use is beyond belief!!

These people are smallminded and dangerous.