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In reply to the discussion: CNN: Violent crime rising in US cities, study finds [View all]Mc Mike
(9,106 posts)"Darrel Stephens, executive director of the Major Cities Chiefs Police Association, told us in an email that it was too soon to talk about trends. Stephens said there had been a spike in the past year in some large cities (particularly in five or six) something we should be concerned about to be sure but not a trend or even close to 20 years ago.
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We took a longer view of what has happened in some major cities, compiling the FBI city-specific data, which comes from voluntary reports from police departments, available through 2012, and 2015 numbers reported by police departments to the Major Cities Chiefs Police Association. Every city shows a big drop in the number of murders since the 1990s, and mixed movement from 2012 to 2015.
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So Chicago, for example, is on track to hit a murder level it experienced under W bush, a couple hundred less murders than occurred during the high point it reached under Raygun/Poppy. After decades of decline, including 6 years of decline under President Obama. While the head of the Major City Chiefs association says a spike isn't a trend. Of course, the repugs weren't concerned about the murder rate when they were in power, and could do something about it.