Showing posts with label Crime Rate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crime Rate. Show all posts

Thursday, May 28, 2015

No Surprise!

May 28, 2015 ABC News/AP , Baltimore 0 Comments
Baltimore Gets Bloodier As Arrests Drop Post-Freddie Gray

By Juliet Linderman, May 28, 2015, ABC News/AP

A 31-year-old woman and a young boy were shot in the head Thursday, becoming Baltimore's 37th and 38th homicide victims so far this month, the city's deadliest in 15 years.

The most recent killings claimed the lives of Jennifer Jeffrey and her 7-year-old son, Kester Anthony Browne. They were identified by Jeffrey's sister, Danielle Wilder.

Jeffrey and her son were found dead early Thursday, each from gunshot wounds to the head.

As family members cried and held each other on the quiet, leafy block in Southwest Baltimore where they lived, Wilder said she felt as if "my heart has been ripped out."

Wilder said a neighbor called their other sister early Thursday, concerned that she hadn't heard any noise coming from Jeffrey's house: no footsteps, Wilder said, no voices, and no gunshots. But when her brother let himself into the house to check on the mother and son, he discovered their bodies.

"She was in the living room," Wilder said. "The baby was upstairs, in the bed."

Read the full story: www.abcnews.go.com

Join us - become an Elderado today at: LarryElder.com

Follow Larry Elder on Twitter
"Like" Larry Elder on Facebook
By - No comments:
Labels: , , , ,

Thursday, May 21, 2015

Denies Cops Are "Holding Back"--Yes They Are!

May 21, 2015 CBS Baltimore , Crime Rate 0 Comments
Baltimore Police Commissioner Discusses Violence Spike In City 

By CBS Baltimore, May 21, 2015

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — In the midst of crime scenes, police say it’s harder to do their jobs. Wednesday, the city’s frustrated top cop says officers are being confronted by large groups and cell phone cameras in the wake of the Freddie Gray case.

Christie Ileto has more.

Recorded mayhem at Penn and North exactly one week after riots ripped Baltimore apart. Residents were convinced a cop shot an unarmed man, prompting many to pull out their phones.

It’s scenes like this the city’s top cop says cripples officers from doing their jobs.

“It makes it very difficult for us to follow up on violence that takes place there. When you have 50 or 60 people there, it makes it difficult to get eyewitnesses,” said Police Commissioner Anthony Batts. “It makes it difficult to get information that’s out there.”

Residents are quick to document after Freddie Gray’s April arrest, highlighting chronic distrust of police.

Read the full story: www.baltimore.cbslocal.com

Join us - become an Elderado today at: LarryElder.com

Follow Larry Elder on Twitter
"Like" Larry Elder on Facebook
By - No comments:
Labels: , ,

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Don't tell Piers Morgan!

March 31, 2015 Awr Hawkins , Breitbart.com 0 Comments
Ca Handgun Sales Skyrocket, Gun-Related Homicides Plummet

By Awr Hawkins, Mar. 4, 2015, Breitbart.com

Handgun sales in California broke a 21-year-old record in 2014, and at the same time, firearm-related murders fell to their lowest rate in over 20 years.

Moreover, accidental gun deaths decreased as well.

According to The Sacramento Bee, a record-breaking 510,000 handguns were sold in the state of California in 2014, easily breaking the previous record of 433,000 handguns sold in 1993. The rise in handgun sales reflects a national surge that was the result of “calls for more gun control in response to several mass shootings.”

The correlation between more guns and less crime was also seen nationally.

According to the FBI, violent crimes and property crimes fell in the first half of 2014 following a recording setting 21,093,273 background checks for firearm purchases in 2013.

On December 4, 2013, Breitbart News reported on a Congressional Research Service (CRS) study showing that an increasing rate of private gun ownership nationally, over a 15-year period, correlated with a sharply declining “firearm-related murder and non-negligent homicide” rate.

Read the full story:  www.breitbart.com

Follow Larry Elder on Twitter
"Like" Larry Elder on Facebook
By - No comments:
Labels: , , , , ,

Saturday, November 22, 2014

ES Twitter Flash

November 22, 2014 Chicago , Crime Rate 0 Comments


Follow Larry Elder on Twitter
"Like" Larry Elder on Facebook
By - No comments:
Labels: , , , , ,

Monday, April 21, 2014

The Real Chicagoland: 3 dead, 6 Injured In Shooting Incidents --None dare blame the welfare state and absent dads

April 21, 2014 Carlos Sadovi , Chicago 0 Comments
By Peter Nickeas and Carlos Sadovi, Apr. 21, 2014, Chicago Tribune

 An 18-year-old man and a 16-year-old boy were found dead of apparent gunshot wounds in a home in the South Chicago neighborhood in Saturday and Sunday shootings that left at least two other people dead and 13 more injured.

 The weekend toll for gun violence in the city includes at least 7 people dead and 22 wounded.  At least 2 people were killed and 9 wounded from about 7:35 p.m. Friday to about 5 a.m. Saturday.

 For the two found shot to death Saturday in South Chicago, Chicago police were called to a home on the 8200 block of South Houston Avenue at 10:38 a.m., said Chicago Police Department News Affairs Officer Jose Estrada.

 The 18-year-old victim who lived at the home was identified by the Cook County medical examiner's office as Anthony Bankhead. Shot with him was Jordan Means, 16, of the 8100 block of South Coles Avenue. They were pronounced dead at 10:50 a.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.

 The two were found dead with multiple gunshot wounds, according to the office. Area South detectives were investigating.

 In addition to that shooting, a 42-year-old man was found dead of multiple gunshot wounds in the Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side, police said.

 Darren Ray of the 3000 block of West Flournoy Street was found in an alley on the 2900 block of West Flournoy Street at 9:30 a.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner's office.

 Ray was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Hospital at 10:04 a.m. according to the medical examiner's office.

 In other shootings: ...

Read the full story:  www.chicagotribune.com

Follow Larry Elder on Twitter
"LIke" Larry Elder on Facebook
By - No comments:
Labels: , , , , , ,

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Chicagoland: Where Did Mayor Rahm Emanuel Go To High School? By Larry Elder

April 16, 2014 Academia , Articles by Larry Elder 0 Comments
By Larry Elder, Apr. 15, 2014

The fascinating CNN reality show, “Chicagoland,” follows the high and lows of a hardworking, charismatic principal, Liz Dozier of Fenger High, an inner-city public school.

We watch her struggle for funding while operating under constant fear of gang-related violence. Chicago has had 76 murders so far this year, putting them on track for 260 murders in 2014, after 509 murders in 2012 and 421 in 2013. The murders are mostly black urban victims and black urban perps, What high school principal goes out on the street, with a bullhorn, to ensure that kids can walk safely to and from school -- without getting shot? Repeat, without getting shot. Welcome to Chicago.

In one scene, the principal literally maps out “safe passage zones” where, she hopes, kids walk to school without being shot by gang members who are unhappy that “outsiders” have crossed into their neighborhood.

In a city of one-third whites, only 8 percent of the public school student body is white. Nationwide, 10 percent of all families send their own kids to private school, and for black families the rate is 5 percent. Among public school teachers in Chicago, however, 39 percent send their own kids to a private school!

What parent with options would send a child to a school like Fenger? Yet lefties like Rahm Emanuel oppose vouchers -- where the money follows the child -- which would give parents at least a fighting chance in choosing a better school.

This is not Baghdad. This is not Beirut. This is Chicago. It has been called the murder capital of the country, and in some years has the nation’s highest number of murders annually. And a recent investigation has just revealed that the Chicago police has under-reported aggravated assault and aggravated battery crimes by 25 percent -- and has done so for years!

The city is about one-third black, one-third white and one-third Hispanic. But blacks commit 70 percent of the city’s murders, and the victim is almost always black. Large numbers of inner-city kids come from homes without fathers, a phenomenon that is a direct result of 50 years of welfare-state policies that undermine the integrity of families.

“Chicagoland” also follows around its dynamic mayor, Rahm Emanuel, the wealthy former chief of staff of President Barack Obama and senior advisor to then-President Bill Clinton. One of his primary objectives is to improve the performance of Chicago public schools. To this end, we see the cheerleading mayor visiting urban schools and high-fiving students.

But what we really see is yet another rich elitist encouraging excellence at a school his parents would not allow him to set foot in, let alone attend. Violence? Low academic standards? Constant scrambling for funds? The school’s beleaguered principal mapping out “safe passage zones,” where “peace monitors” would accompany students as they walk across “gang lines”?

Emanuel likes to say that he believes in public education because he is a product of public schools. Really? But where did Rahm I-believe-in-public-schools Emanuel go to high school?

He attended New Trier High School, a public school perhaps like no other. It was founded in 1901, by wealthy Northsiders, as the Wikipedia put it, “to enable parents to educate their children without sending them to college preparatory schools on the Eastern seaboard.”

New Trier High is considered by many to be among the finest public high schools in America, and has been featured on the cover of many national magazines stories about New Trier’s academic rigor and its many distinguished graduates.

From Wikipedia:

 “In 1928, New Trier began its advisory system, the first such in American public secondary education, in which each student meets with one faculty adviser and the same fellow advisory students every morning throughout his or her career. …

“New Trier spends more than $15,000 yearly per student, well above the state average of $8,786. It has been included in the ‘Top Hundred’ and ‘Most Successful’ lists of the National Association of Secondary School Principals, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Parade magazine. The school was also identified as ‘quite possibly the best public school in America’ by Town & Country, in a six-page article on New Trier that cited the ‘rich’ and ‘demanding’ curriculum, extensive arts and activities, strong participation in athletics, and faculty of the caliber typically found teaching at good colleges. Life magazine also recognized New Trier as one of the best high schools in America with cover stories in 1950 and 1998.

“Approximately 98 percent of the class of 2013 went on to college. Of these students, 37 were National Merit Semifinalists, 31 were National Merit Finalists, and 67 received letters of commendation. For the class of 2006, the mean SAT verbal score was 620 and the mean SAT math score was 650. For the class of 2013, the mean ACT composite score was 27.5, the highest in Illinois for an open enrollment public school and among the top school scores in the United States. According to an article by the University of Michigan Department of Psychology, ‘New Trier students outperform their Illinois classmates on every conceivable measure.’ The article also points out that 92 percent of the school's funding comes from the high property taxes of its affluent surroundings.”

Emanuel’s condescending embrace of a public school system his own high-striving parents would have rejected says a great deal about America’s left elite. It demonstrates yet again the liberal’s soft bigotry of low expectations.

You see, for Rahm Emanuel, it’s New Trier. For you, it’s Fenger High.


Follow Larry Elder on Twitter
"LIke" Larry Elder on Facebook
By - No comments:
Labels: , , , , , , , , , ,

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Chicagoland: Weekend Leaves 4 Dead, 37 Wounded --Murder capital of USA, city crime stats UNDERSTATED by 25%

April 15, 2014 Chicago , Chicago Police Department 0 Comments
By Josh McGhee, Apr. 14, 2014

CHICAGO — A 24-year-old man shot in West Pullman Sunday night was at least the 37th person shot in a violent three-day stretch in Chicago.  

Four people were killed on the first weekend of the year to feature a stretch of warm weather, and the violence began as the school day ended on the warm Friday afternoon when a teenage girl, Gakira Barnes, was fatally shot in Woodlawn.  

The most recent shooting occurred around 10:15 p.m. Sunday evening. A 24-year-old man was walking in the 12200 block of South Emerald Avenue when he heard shots and felt pain, said Officer Hector Alfaro, a Chicago Police Department spokesman.  

The man was shot in his right foot and taken to Roseland Hospital in stable condition, Alfaro said.

 Read the full story:  www.dnainfo.com


Follow Larry Elder on Twitter
"LIke" Larry Elder on Facebook
By - No comments:
Labels: , , , , ,

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

The Truth About Chicago’s Crime Rates --Crime understated by 25%! And for years!!

April 09, 2014 Chicago , Chicagomag.com 0 Comments
By David Bernstein and Noah Isackson, Apr. 7, 2014, Chicagomag.com
It was a balmy afternoon last July when the call came in: Dead body found inside empty warehouse on the West Side.

Chicago police officers drove through an industrial stretch of the hardscrabble Austin neighborhood and pulled up to the 4600 block of West Arthington Street. The warehouse in question was an unremarkable-looking red-brick single-story building with a tall barbed-wire fence. Vacant for six years, it had been visited that day by its owner and a real-estate agent—the person who had called 911.

The place lacked electricity, so crime scene technicians set up generators and portable lights. The power flickered on to reveal a grisly sight. In a small office, on soggy carpeting covered in broken ceiling tiles, lay a naked, lifeless woman. She had long red-streaked black hair and purple glitter nail polish on her left toenails (her right ones were gone), but beyond that it was hard to discern much. Her face and body were bloated and badly decomposed, her hands ash colored. Maggots feasted on her flesh.

At the woman’s feet, detectives found a curled strand of telephone wire. Draped over her right hand was a different kind of wire: thin and brown. The same brown wire was wrapped around each armrest of a wooden chair next to her.

The following day, July 24, a pathologist in the Cook County medical examiner’s office noticed something else that had been obscured by rotting skin: a thin gag tied around the corpse’s mouth.


Thanks to some still-visible tattoos, detectives soon identified this unfortunate woman: Tiara Groves, a 20-year-old from Austin. She was last seen walking alone in the wee hours of Sunday, July 14, near a liquor store two miles from the warehouse. At least eight witnesses who saw her that night told police a similar story: She appeared drunk and was upset—one man said that she was crying so hard she couldn’t catch her breath—but refused offers of help. A man who talked to her outside the liquor store said that Groves warned him, excitedly and incoherently, that he should stay away from her or else somebody (she didn’t say who) would kill him too.

 Read the full story:  www.chicagomag.com

Follow Larry Elder on Twitter
"Like" Larry Elder on Facebook
By - No comments:
Labels: , , , , ,