Not much monkey business--- just one of the worst campus shootings in history at VA Tech.
I will take one nutcase over murderous neighborhoods any day of the week. Research per capita shooting comparisons of DC-MD-VA and be enlightened.
You like research ? Research the cities where more capital violence has gone up, although down for most of the USA
Yup. Those Democrats do not have a clue how to deal with crime and criminals.
According to the
Major Cities Chiefs Association, which collected data from 61 metropolitan police agencies, U.S. cities saw 6,407 homicides in 2016, an 11% increase from the year before. Dallas, Las Vegas, Louisville, Memphis, Phoenix and San Jose all saw rises in killings last year, as did some smaller cities that typically have very low murder rates. Arlington, Texas, for example, had 4 homicides in 2015 but 18 in 2016; Salt Lake City saw 6 in 2015 compared with 14 last year.
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Homicide rate changes compare 2016 data to the average of previous 5 years. Source: Major Cities Chiefs Association
Darrel Stephens, the MCCA's executive director, cautions that it's too early to know whether increases seen over the last two years are mere blips or the beginning of a sustained increase in overall crime rates around the country. Criminologists often say it takes at least three to five years of data to show true trend lines.
President Donald Trump routinely portrays crime in the country’s inner cities as out of control. Last week, he tweeted a vague threat to
“send in the feds” in Chicago if the city didn't lower its crime rates. But even with the recent increases, crime remains near all-time lows.
"We’ve had at least two years running now where there’s been an increase in 35 to 45 major cities,” Stephens says. “It’s a major issue and should be in the cities where it’s taking place. But it’s not anywhere near the kind of violence that we had in the 1990s."