Murder rate

Oregon has experienced a “decade of decline” under radical leftist leadership, Drazan told Fox News’s Tammy Bruce on Friday.

Stop Houston Murders, a political action committee formed in Houston, Texas, to take on “soft-on-crime Democrat judges,” seeks to call attention to the skyrocketing violent crime and murder rate in the city and the judges who facilitate a criminal catch-and-release program.

President Joe Biden’s Attorney General Merrick Garland made a surprise visit to Ukraine as major American cities face skyrocketing murder rates and lawlessness. 

California Governor Gavin Newsom tried to reframe the political narrative on crime Saturday, claiming that America has a “red state murder problem,” rather than a problem of homicide in Democrat-controlled cities across the nation.

Democrat activists are warning that the party’s lax attitude towards rising crime may produce an electoral disaster for their party.

In 12 American cities run by Democrats, the murder rate is skyrocketing, according to a study by the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund (LELDF).

Tallahassee’s police union has purchased billboard space highlighting the city’s crime and murder rates while warning families not to send their children to college in the city.

The homicide rate in London this year is on course to surpass that of 2018, which had seen the highest level of violent killings in a decade.

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) joined the left-wing pile-on of President Trump over his criticism of Rep. Elijah Cummings’ (D-MD) Baltimore district and proclaimed that drawing attention to the flaws of the city is akin to “trashing America.”

Mexico has one gun store, stringent gun controls, and nearly three times the number of homicides witnessed in the U.S.

A UC Davis study examining the first ten years after California adopted universal background checks shows that those checks did not reduce homicides.

According to FBI data, the City of Baltimore had the worst murder rate of all U.S. big cities in 2017.

The murder rate in the Bronx has nearly doubled last year’s rates, according to New York Police Department statistics reported by the New York Post Tuesday.

Chicago’s Memorial Day weekend got a brutal start with 23 people shot and four killed from Friday afternoon to Saturday evening. And there are still two more days of the holiday weekend to go.

Baltimore has an “assault weapons” ban, a “high capacity” magazine ban, and a record rate of “killings per capita.”

Baltimore’s police commissioner is now requiring all officers to be on 12-hour shifts as violence increases in the city.

Baltimore’s mayor is turning to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for help as the city is struggling to deal with its rising murder rate.

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – Though new gun control measures were designed to curtail murder and gun violence in New Orleans, the murder rate has remained almost unchanged from last year, before the measures were put into place.

With 344 murders, last year was the bloodiest year in the City of Baltimore’s history. But as 2016 reaches its halfway point, the bloodshed seems to be showing no signs of stopping.

A study released April 20 by the Brennan Center for Justice shows that the murder rate jumped 13.3 percent in America’s biggest cities during 2015. Three Democrat-run, heavily gun-controlled cities–Baltimore, Chicago, and Washington DC–“account for more than half” of the

On March 9, Maryland state senator Jamie Raskin (D-Montgomery County) said he and his colleagues will not quit pushing gun control until they have an annual “death toll of zero” in the state.

The weekend’s death toll in Chicago has now pushed the city’s murder rate to over 100 deaths a full two months earlier than last year and at least 200 percent higher than this time in 2015.

The city council of the District of Columbia thinks it just might have the best way to stop a rising crime rate: Pay residents not to commit crimes.

For the first time in four years, Mexico saw an 8.7 percent increase in the murder rate, according to government sources. There was also a coinciding claim of a decline in kidnapping and extortion, perhaps indicating that criminal groups are once again shifting their tactics.

Despite an overall drop in crime, Washington D.C. has nonetheless experienced a whopping 54 percent increase in its murder rate for 2015, the city reports.

On November 15, the Associated Press (AP) fact-checked Democrat presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton’s gun control claims, among which was her contention that “nearly 3,000 [were] killed by guns” between the October 13 Democrat debate and the one that took place on November 14.

On November 11, film director Spike Lee told CNN’s Anderson Cooper that he believes “social media is partly to blame” for the surge in “gun violence” and firearm-related homicides in Chicago.

As of last weekend, there are now 294 recorded homicides in Baltimore this year, up from the 211 murdered during all of 2014.

Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, and James Kilgore—three communist revolutionaries who were part of domestic terror groups and who all spent years on the run from the law—approved as a man called for “citizen’s tribunals” against the National Rifle Association to be held at the United Nations.

White House officials are aggressively pushing back at FBI director James Comey’s remarkable—although indirect—public criticism of President Barack Obama’s crime policies.

In their latest skirmish with authorities, in what they term a #BaltimoreUprising, Black Lives Matter claimed solidarity with Palestinians who have been murdering Jews in Israel.

A sharp spike in the murder rates of Democrat-controlled cities across America is one of the consequences of the increased tension between police and black Americans; tension that has been stirred up by both the liberal media and by Democrat-aligned radical political activist group Black Lives Matter.

This year has been the bloodiest, most violent in Baltimore for a generation with Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and now two chiefs of police struggling for solutions. But now, federal agents are embedding with the Baltimore police department in the hopes of putting an end to the out-of-control violence.

On July 29, Baltimore counted its 42nd homicide of the month, tying the “historic high” reached in May of this year.

Last year, St. Louis, Missouri, saw its highest murder rate since 2008, but with 101 killed already this year, the murder rate in the Gateway City looks poised to pass last year’s deadly tally.

Notably the two areas that saw uprisings following police-involved deaths of unarmed black men St. Louis and Baltimore, also saw spikes. Baltimore the first half of the year has experienced 155 murders compared to 105 last year. St. Louis has had 93 murders this year compared with 58 in the same timeframe last year.