Prime Noticer has good points though. Studies in US (sorry, I don’t have the cites) indicate that taking into account improved ER/trauma techniques, equipment, processes, etc. from the early 90s through recent years, the murder rate should be 3x-4x higher. Even cutting such estimates in half yields current per capita murder rates in many cities on par with or even exceeding early 90s highs. Last year, Philadelphia with a similar sized pop. as it had in the early 90s exceeded its prior highest murder years from the 90s–and this is without taking into account improvements in ER/trauma treatment.

MSM never mentions improved ER/trauma treatment as helping keep murder rates down. Also, never mentioned is demographic changes in cities (except to say gentrification is bad) and how that affects crime. DC being a case in point with massive demographic changes over the last 30 years. Criemstop prevents such changes from being explored.

Nonetheless, most all crime did go down over the past 30 years–until recently. Still, one gets the suspicion that big city Police Depts (not wanting to rock things with local pols) will revert to their old habit of discounting or mislabelling crimes to help their stats.

OK, this Indianapolis story is particularly scary and weird. Completely deserving national attention, but…. It’s a local crime story of no consequence. All this insanity is not going to end well. It’s not just certain excessively progressive city elites that have abdicated their leadership duties but almost the entire US upper class. From ivory towers to the highest corporate boards in the land and everywhere in between the one consistent failure is elite leadership failing to do their duty for their country, heck, for civilization.

Steve,

Don’t forget as the Ferguson/BLM craziness from a few years ago resulted in the assassination of multiple police officers, the current craziness, which is on a much bigger scale, will also lead to direct assassinations of police officers + maybe political figures. It’s a big country with enough crazy lefties for another, bigger wave of direct attacks on police.

The seventies saw a host of police assassinations by black liberation army, panthers, and other radicals–all of which went down the memory hole. Remember the zebra killings of whites on the West Coast in the 70s. No one else does. The 70s were bat sh*t crazy when it came to lefty terror/violence–all conveniently forgotten. Although Clinton and Obama were kind enough to remember to pardon Puerto Rican terrorists from that era–they remembered to cover for their pals. It’s insane that Angela Davis is not behind bars after what she did back then.

When crazies think the revolution is at hand, some of them will take direct action. Also, the left/media/Establishment will cover for them as best they can.

But please get the word out that police have to be on guard for assassination attempts in the coming months. These crazies will do it.

Guns are bad for us
Only police should have guns
Police will protect us
Police are vicious/racist monsters
No one will protect us
Guns are bad for us