Cities like New York and Los Angeles are leftist Petrie dishes where criminals run free and innocent citizens are very afraid. The problem is apparent in any Democrat run city. But it’s stark in the two aforementioned merdeholes.

FNC: “The 2021 United States murder rate is estimated to be nearly as high as it was in 25 years ago, when more than 19,600 people were killed nationwide, according to statistics shared in a recent report.

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The murder rate was estimated to be 6.9 murders per 100,000 people in 2021 – just 0.5 lower than the 1996 murder rate of 7.4, according to FBI data examined by data analyst Jeff Asher and shared by the New York Times. It’s the closest the nation has come to the high-crime scourge of the early 90s.

The FBI estimated that 19,645 people were murdered in 1996. Meanwhile, 2021 ended with several cities – Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, and Minneapolis, to name a few – reporting upticks in murders.”

The chart is extraordinary. Murders in the US are nearly back to where they were 25 years ago: https://t.co/qyFbNwe8uq pic.twitter.com/hoXE0vGVkg

— Jesse Drucker (@JesseDrucker) January 18, 2022

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“If crimes continue to be committed in large numbers, and police continue not to have the backing of politicians and the public, then they’re not going to do their job the way they did when I was commissioner,” former NYPD Commissioner Howard Safir told press on Tuesday.

“When you say, ‘here’s a list of crimes I’m not going to prosecute,’ — Yeah, you are not a good D.A.,” said Jon Hatami, a longtime LA prosecutor. “And you are not a good prosecutor. That shouldn’t be the first thing you do when you become D.A…The homicide rate in L.A. City compared to 2019 is up over 50%,” Hatami said. “The homicide rate in L.A. County compared to 2019 is up over 90%, and we’re at a 15-year high in homicides. There are some people that are so bad that they deserve to go to prison,” he said Tuesday. “And the reason for that is punishment, accountability and protection for the public.

“So now you have a large group of people who are out of custody, who are committing thefts, who are addicted to drugs… who are not being held accountable for their actions,” Hatami said. “And now they’re preying on innocent individuals. They do not care about the public,” he said. “They only care about their political ideology and spreading that political ideology.”

The recent murder of two young women, Brianna Kupfer and Sandra Shells, highlighted the issue in Los Angeles. “On the Brianna Kupfer case, it is tragic and heartbreaking that a young woman was murdered while she worked. Her family is now left to grieve the sudden loss of someone they loved and adored,” L.A. District Attorney spox Greg Risling told media, engaging in ex post facto sentimentality and completely ignoring the District Attorney’s dereliction of duty.

Kupfer’s father is not satisfied with their answer. “We have a lot of politicians that somehow forgot about people and think the key to getting elected is to support the lowest rung of our society and to give them rights and somehow that’s the answer to getting votes,” he told press on Monday.

This piece was written by David Kamioner on January 19, 2022. It originally appeared in LifeZette and is used by permission.

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