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When You Defund the Police: Shootings

 

In 2019, the city had 388 shootings

Last year, the year of chaos, we had 891.

As of last week, this year, the city has topped 1000.

 

 

 

When You Defund the Police: Murder by Numbers

 

From September 2018 to 2019, the city had 42 homicides,

From September 2020 to 2021, the were 87.

 

 

When You Defunding the Police: The Grand Theft Auto Edition

 

 

In September  903 cars were stolen in the city.

In August, 805 cars were stolen. 

 In 2020, the night number of cars stolen in month was 658.

 

 

Bleeding Out

 

Per a member of the city council, the department is losing twelve officers a month to retirement and resignations.

 

 

Fatals

 

I was told at coffee, and then verified the stat, the city now has 51 fatal crashes.

 

 

A Social Experiment

 

In 1968, the pond had  800 sworn police officers. The city had a population of 380,000.

Today, the city has a population of 660,000 and there's a million and a half more people with in 30 miles.  We have 783 officers.

Seven officers are leaving a month. 87 more, including possibly me, are looking to retire in July.

It is looking like the city will have arounds 600 officers by August.

 

Auto Theft

 

Between July 2020 and the end of June 2021, 7905 cars were stolen in the city. That is an average of 21 cars  stolen each day. 70 percent of the cars are returned to their owners  within 30 days and 90 precent are recovered overall. 

 

The Time of Violence

 

Per Roll Call, most of the recent shootings occur after Afternoons goes home for the night......

 

 

And From Straight Pipe: 60

 

This morning, Straight Pipe pointed out the pond's homicide tally hit 60 last night.

 

 

 

And This....

 

 

In the past year, more than 1 in every 1000 African Americans were murdered in the pond. That is a higher rate than an other city in the US.