"This study updates a previous study by the authors with additional crime data through the end of August 2020. It examines crime rates for ten offenses in 27 U.S. cities during the COVID-19 pandemic and social unrest over police violence."
"Homicides and aggravated assaults rose beginning in late May and June 2020. Homicide rates between June and August of 2020 increased by 53% over the same period in 2019, and aggravated assaults went up by 14%—both increases were statistically significant."
Wait:

A homicide increase by 53 percent is STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT?!

Ya don't say!

What are the 27 cities?
Here you go.

You're shocked--SHOCKED--aren't you?
Omaha mayor Jean Stothert is nominally Republican, but the position of major is officially nonpartisan.

You're not allowed to government as a Republican.

All the other mayors are Democrats.

Academics are scratching their heads, trying to explain the data.
THEY AREN'T LYING.

For them, leftism is normal, and conservatism is delusion.

So they HONESTLY CAN'T UNDERSTAND why this happened.

And THAT is why they can't be given positions of responsibility.

Sure, there's a lot of bad faith in leftism.

BUT.
They believe that perpetrators are the real victims.

"What was done to them to make them do this?"

And.

"There's no such thing as bad people. Only bad choices."

That one cracks me up.

There are not only bad people, these people are so bad that you can't comprehend them.
I speak from firsthand experience.

That's why I love the Denzel Washington movie The Equalizer.

He has no qualms about ending the lives of bad people and looking them directly in the eyes as the lights go out.

I MYSELF can't do that, but I support those who can.
I'm running on fumes because of bad people, so I have to avoid everything that's no horrible.

But some people must be escorted off the planet.

I support those who do it.

It's not necessary to torture evildoers. Just put them in prison forever.
I have no opinion on the death penalty.

It's devoid of moral content.

Neither moral nor immoral.

Whatever the state chooses is fine with me.

I have no preference.

People like to play game with it:
"If you can't throw the switch yourself, you have no right supporting it."

By THAT logic, if we refuse to fly crop dusters, we have no right to eat vegetables.

Crop dusting is DANGEROUS AS HELL.

So is ironworking.
If you refuse to be an ironworker yourself, you have no right to use completed skyscrapers.

If you refuse to be a cop, you have no right to call them.

Same with firefighting.

AND BEING PRESIDENT.

So just shut up.

Leftist imbecile.
The REALITY is that bad people need to be kept away from the rest of us, one way or another.

That's how CIVILIZED SOCIETY works.

Idiot leftists destroyed the rule of law in their cities, and now their cities are killing grounds.

Let's look at some stats:
385 million police contacts per year.

11 million arrests.

About 1000 police killings per year.

https://www.dolanconsultinggroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Dispelling-the-Myths-Surrounding-Police-Use-of-Lethal-Force.pdf
The cops are making MORE CONTACTS PER YEAR THAT THE POPULATION OF THE ENTIRE COUNTRY.

They're arresting the ENTIRE POPULATIONS OF NEW YORK AND CHICAGO COMBINED every year.

And Volkswagen diesel emissions kill more Europeans every year than cops kill Americans.
VOLKSWAGEN DIESEL VEHICLES ARE NOT DEALING WITH HOMICIDAL CRIMINALS AND MENTAL PATIENTS.

The reason cops in other industrialized nations don't shoot anybody is that THEY DON'T ARREST ANYBODY.

Except for people who refuse to wear the Holy Masks of Antioch.
When I lived in Stvanger, Norway, there was a guy I saw everywhere.

We called him the Green Man.

Her dress all in bright green, including glass with green frames.

Her simply stood in place with two green suitcases, trembling visibly.

And somehow leaning forward.
His head was on a swivel.

He looked terrified, and he watched everybody closely, trembling.

My Norwegian neighbors told me that he was an ax murderer. Chopped up his parents, three siblings, and an aunt and uncle.

He was hospitalized for three years and released.
So one night I was riding home around the lake across the street from my house.

It had street lights.

I rounded the corner, and there was Green Man, leaning and trembling and watching me.

It was too late to stop, so I rode past him.

He was about four feet away from me.
I never went bike riding around the lake again.

Norway took the side of an AX MURDERER, so I had to sacrifice one of my pleasures.

Norway likes to trumpet its low crime rate.

They just don't REPORT violent crime.

Three years for murdering seven people with an ax.
And he roamed Stavanger at will, with no supervision whatsoever.

Norway was the worst country I ever lived in.

Nothing but self-righteous leftist alcoholics trying to start fistfights.

There was no peace of mind in Norway.

The scenery and food were great.
It was the leftists who made life hell on earth.

The best Norwegians live in the US.

They love Norway from a distance.

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ADDENDUM:

Wow!

That thread is only semiliterate due to the typos.

See how stressful it is for me to talk about murder?
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