City Murder Rates - Page 121

mrnyc · #**2401** Posted **Aug 10, 2020, 6:08 PM**

ugh.

edale · #**2402** Posted **Aug 10, 2020, 6:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by mrnyc

ugh.

Must be twice as hot in NYC this summer compared to last year

mrnyc · #**2403** Posted **Aug 10, 2020, 6:49 PM**

its that de blasio is awol above the neck.

iheartthed · #**2404** Posted **Aug 10, 2020, 8:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by edale

Must be twice as hot in NYC this summer compared to last year

Or maybe 24% hotter. Murders are up 24%, but guess that's not sensational enough for the Post.

bossabreezes · #**2405** Posted **Aug 10, 2020, 9:54 PM**

Sorry, but a 25% increase year over year is sensational enough on its own. Anyone downplaying it is intellectually dishonest, because it doesn't fit their political utopian narrative.

iheartthed · #**2406** Posted **Aug 10, 2020, 10:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by bossabreezes

Sorry, but a 25% increase year over year is sensational enough on its own. Anyone downplaying it is intellectually dishonest, because it doesn't fit their political utopian narrative.

I didn't say it was insignificant.

0214685226 · #**2407** Posted **Aug 10, 2020, 10:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by bossabreezes

Sorry, but a 25% increase year over year is sensational enough on its own. Anyone downplaying it is intellectually dishonest, because it doesn't fit their political utopian narrative.

What is happening cannot be explained with terrestrial reasonings. The real explanation has to do with celestial events. The Neowise Comet is most likely to be at fault for increasing murders of American cities. It's like a full moon with wolves, yet on steroids and crystal meth. They can't help themselves...it's celestial and natural.

photoLith · #**2408** Posted **Aug 10, 2020, 10:48 PM**

^
Uh, I hope you are being sarcastic.

KevinFromTexas · #**2409** Posted **Aug 11, 2020, 11:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by 0214685226

What is happening cannot be explained with terrestrial reasonings. The real explanation has to do with celestial events. The Neowise Comet is most likely to be at fault for increasing murders of American cities. It's like a full moon with wolves, yet on steroids and crystal meth. They can't help themselves...it's celestial and natural.

Comets are increasing the murder rate. Ok.

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mrnyc · #**2410** Posted **Aug 12, 2020, 7:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by 0214685226

What is happening cannot be explained with terrestrial reasonings. The real explanation has to do with celestial events. The Neowise Comet is most likely to be at fault for increasing murders of American cities. It's like a full moon with wolves, yet on steroids and crystal meth. They can't help themselves...it's celestial and natural.

aah yes, the old effect of the heavens on human behavior. the classic studies often used to highlight confirmation bias.

btw meth is low on the totem pole of preferred drug abuse in nyc.

0214685226 · #**2411** Posted **Aug 13, 2020, 12:01 AM**

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Originally Posted by photoLith

^
Uh, I hope you are being sarcastic.

Watch what happens bro, the comet will fade away and so will the murders in a few American municipalities. It's all celestial, bro. I hope we don't have another extraterrestrial rock fly by next year, could you imagine? It might turn out to be like the event similar to 12,800 years ago.

#**2412** Posted **Aug 13, 2020, 2:42 AM**

^ how does the murder rate fall off with increasing comet distance? 1/r? 1/r^2? just wondering so i can plan some trips.

uaarkson · #**2413** Posted **Aug 13, 2020, 10:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by 0214685226

Watch what happens bro, the comet will fade away and so will the murders in a few American municipalities. It's all celestial, bro. I hope we don't have another extraterrestrial rock fly by next year, could you imagine? It might turn out to be like the event similar to 12,800 years ago.

this is the best trolling I've seen on here for years lmao!

bossabreezes · #**2414** Posted **Aug 17, 2020, 3:10 PM**

Over 50 people shot from Friday night to Sunday in New York City.

tablemtn · #**2415** Posted **Aug 18, 2020, 9:17 PM**

Minneapolis has more murders in 2020 than it had for all of last year:

https://www.startribune.com/homicide...ear/572148372/

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A man was shot fatally shortly after sunrise Tuesday in south Minneapolis, marking the city's 49th homicide of the year, authorities said.

Last year, the city logged 48 homicides, said Minneapolis police spokesman John Elder.

Minneapolis's modern low came in 2009, when the city had 18 murders.

KevinFromTexas · #**2416** Posted **Aug 21, 2020, 8:56 AM**

Well this is...gruesome. A guy was apparently murdered in the neighborhood after getting out of jail and beating his ex-wife. The details are sketchy, but two neighbors were arrested after tampering with evidence. A man was found buried in concrete in a quasi-tomb in a shed in the backyard. This happened about 500 feet from me.

‘It’s scary’: Neighbors shocked after body was found buried, covered in concrete in south Austin backyard
https://www.kxan.com/news/crime/aust...stin-backyard/

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I've had a strange urge to watch The 'Burbs all day since reading about it.

Northern Light · #**2417** Posted **Aug 21, 2020, 1:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by tablemtn

Minneapolis has more murders in 2020 than it had for all of last year:

https://www.startribune.com/homicide...ear/572148372/

Minneapolis's modern low came in 2009, when the city had 18 murders.

That last line is the most shocking, to me.

No self-righteous smugness, just shock.

As a Toronto resident.

Minneapolis is just shy of 500,000 people, Toronto is 3,000,000

So if you scaled that that number, Minneapolis 'modern low', would be 108 homicides which is notably higher than Toronto's worst year ever.

Which included a van attack that killed 10 or 11.

I find it hard to wrap my head around that, let alone a scale homicide total for the current year (49, x 6) would give you 295 homicides.

I honestly think you'd see the military called out if that happened here, and door to door searches for guns.

To realize there are other U.S. cities where the problems are that much worse......

Northern Light · #**2418** Posted **Aug 21, 2020, 1:26 PM**

Toronto just had its 42nd homicide of the year.

Acajack · #**2419** Posted **Aug 21, 2020, 2:00 PM**

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Originally Posted by Northern Light

That last line is the most shocking, to me.

No self-righteous smugness, just shock.

As a Toronto resident.

Minneapolis is just shy of 500,000 people, Toronto is 3,000,000

So if you scaled that that number, Minneapolis 'modern low', would be 108 homicides which is notably higher than Toronto's worst year ever.

Which included a van attack that killed 10 or 11.

I find it hard to wrap my head around that, let alone a scale homicide total for the current year (49, x 6) would give you 295 homicides.

I honestly think you'd see the military called out if that happened here, and door to door searches for guns.

To realize there are other U.S. cities where the problems are that much worse......

Agree with everything you said except for the highlighted.

There are lots of heads in the sand in many Canadian cities when it comes to violent crime, even when it comes to murders and shootings.

What is considered the new normal for crime today would have been considered abhorrent (actually like saying the earth is flat) just a few decades ago.

Just because it's not as a bad as in the U.S. doesn't mean there isn't lots of room for crime to go up significantly here due to laxity, a "don't worry be happy" attitude, and other factors.

If I had to bet, that's what I'd put my money on.

bossabreezes · #**2420** Posted **Aug 21, 2020, 2:23 PM**

^^Unfortunately that's kind of what's happening here in the US. The US used to be a law&order type country (with problems in the system, of course), but as of late laws have become lax and many people are deciding they don't actually mean anything anymore.

I personally think this started with illegal immigration becoming so polarized. Many people support it, some don't, but nowadays the justice side of things has become more important than organization and law to a huge swath of the population. I remember I posted about this some time ago and how it was a slippery slope- now look where we are.

I guarantee if Biden wins the situation will continue to sprial downward and it will be handled even more pathetically than Trump has handled this.

I have a strong feeling the US has just embarked on a new journey of perpetually rising crime rates, similar to what happened in the 70s, 80s and 90s.