Lexington, Kentucky, which saw a city record of 34 homicides in 2020, is now half way to that total, with 7¼ months left to go in the year. Victim of fatal shooting in Lexington early Saturday has been identified By Karla Ward | May 22, 2021 | 1:06 PM | Updated: 2:26 PM EDT Two […]
I’ll admit it: I went on kind of a rant in the comments section of my good friend William Teach’s story: In Violent St. Louis, Mayor Wants To Empty Prisons And Defund The Police By William Teach | May 19, 2021 | 10:30 AM EDT No, wait, they should do this, because every experiment needs […]
There they were, two stories, side by side on the Lexington Herald-Leader’s website main page: Two stories, one about the glee being felt by some over the conviction of Derek Chauvin for the killing of George Floyd, and one about the black lives that really don’t matter to the #BlackLivesMatter activists: ‘Justice can prevail.’ Group […]
When I heard that a deranged white man male, who hated black Americans, murdered three black people in a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida, I pretty much expected the editorial response. Progress exists, but Dr. King’s dream remains deferred | Editorial America still has a ways to go to live up to the self-evident […]
We have previously noted the homicide rate in St Louis, which, with an even 200 murders in 2022, and a Census Bureau estimated population of 286,578 as of July 1, 2022, yields a homicide rate of a whopping 69.79 per 100,000 population. When Philadelphia says that it’s the murder capital of the United States, St […]
It was two months ago that Congress, which is normally hands off but does have jurisdiction over the District of Columbia, rejected the city’s attempt to overhaul its criminal law, an attempt which would have reduced or eliminated mandatory minimums. Crime has increased in our nation’s capital, increased dramatically this year. The chart at the […]
With some major cities saddled by George Soros-sponsored “progressive” chief prosecutors, law enforcement officials whose goals are not to protect the public, but to keep criminals out of jail, sensible people have been trying to take action. Endorsed by such liberal luminaries as as Senatore Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Cooks County State Attorney Kim Foxx, and […]
Yeah, it’s true, I concentrate more on homicides in foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy Philadelphia than Lexington, the closest large city to me, the city in which I lived from 1971 through 1984, and the city in which my daughters live, but the City of Brotherly Love didn’t set a new homicide record in 2022, […]
Unless she has moved again, and I missed it — something which is always possible — Salon’s senior politics writer Amanda Marcotte lives in Philadelphia. As of 11:59 PM EST on Thursday, December 15th, the City of Brotherly Love had seen 496 homicides officially, and with 110 deaths listed as “suspicious,” the total is doubtlessly […]