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2020-04-25 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Murders in NYC surge for second week in a row as coronavirus lockdown continues
[FoxNews] Despite coronavirus lockdown measures, murders in New York City have doubled over last years's numbers for the second consecutive week.

This week last year, the city saw five murders to this year's 10 murders, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) reported.

The NYPD regularly publishes statistics through its CompStat portal, comparing current stats with the equivalent period in the previous year. While some crimes -- including felony assault and rape -- have declined, murder has increased, as did burglary and grand larceny auto, according to the department.

In the first quarter of 2020, from January through March, murders increased by just under 6 percent in comparison to 2019, with the NYPD reporting 92 murders up from 87 during the first quarter last year.

But over the last 28 days -- during which the city has observed lockdowns and other pandemic safety measures -- that number has spiked. Murder has increased by 55 percent: 28 murders vs. 18 in the same period last year.

Speaking with the New York Daily News, Eugene O’Donnell, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, speculated that the lockdown is amplifying underlying issues and encouraging criminal behavior.

“You would think people at this point would be focused solely on self-preservation. You would think bad guys, the very last place they want to go is to jail, but the impulse to settle the score is too great,” O’Donnell said. “There’s a lot of fear and angst at this point. ... It’s a super-heated environment, the whole city at this point."

“We’re not alone in this,” O’Donnell added, pointing to spikes in violence in Chicago, which earlier this month saw 21 shootings, six of them fatal, over the course of a single weekday.
Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 Coroner: "We have 10 people who were murdered last week".
DiBlasio: "Health Commissioner, add the 10 to the Covid deaths. "
Posted by Rambler in Virginia  2020-04-25 00:29||   2020-04-25 00:29|| Front Page Top

#2 The advantages of urban living that the rubes just can't understand.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-25 02:43||   2020-04-25 02:43|| Front Page Top

#3 CDC data YTD as of Apr-24 for New York City:

Total Fatalities...Increase vs 3-Yr Ave (%, #)..COVID Fatalities
25,978..............98%; 13,000 increase..........8,073

So NYC in the year of COVID has seen, relative to the average for the last three years, a spike in unrelated deaths amounting to about 5,000 incremental deaths so far this year, and on track to reach about 15,000 for 2020.

CDC doesn't break out the causes of those thousands of additional deaths but it's a good bet that nearly all of them were preventable: people requiring urgent care who were denied it in the panicky overreaction to COVID.

While Cuomo and Mayor Lutz were bloviating about ventilators, thousands of their citizens were denied surgeries, emergency treatments and other urgent care that could have saved their lives.

De Blasio (and maybe also Cuomo) needs to be prosecuted for this gross malpractice that is literally killing thousands of his own citizens.
Posted by Lex 2020-04-25 04:14||   2020-04-25 04:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Israelis get divorced over pizza.
NYCers kill over parking spaces.
Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-25 04:21||   2020-04-25 04:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Some of the best of us are tempted to kill over pizza. Or divorce over parking driving habits
Posted by Lex 2020-04-25 04:38||   2020-04-25 04:38|| Front Page Top

#6 Domestics or strangers?
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-04-25 07:41||   2020-04-25 07:41|| Front Page Top

#7 I'm looking for funding to do a study about how Coronavirus drives folks crazy, resulting in murder and mayhem. Maybe a gofundme page?
Posted by Bobby 2020-04-25 08:08||   2020-04-25 08:08|| Front Page Top

#8 ...on Nancy's website?
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-04-25 08:17||   2020-04-25 08:17|| Front Page Top

#9 I'm about fuggin sick of NYC.

Suspend police patrols, release criminals, then complain about the murder rate.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-04-25 13:12||   2020-04-25 13:12|| Front Page Top

#10 The USA doesn't have a COVID problem so much as it has a NYC + Michigan problem.
Posted by Lex 2020-04-25 14:06||   2020-04-25 14:06|| Front Page Top

#11 The USA doesn't have a COVID problem so much as it has a NYC + Michigan problem.

Look at the graph at the link Lex - what does it suggests to you?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-25 14:16||   2020-04-25 14:16|| Front Page Top

#12 95 deaths out of 1,980,000 residents in Ground Zero, the 20%-Chinese epicenter that is Santa Clara County CA
Posted by Lex 2020-04-25 14:36||   2020-04-25 14:36|| Front Page Top

#13 Have it your way.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-25 14:38||   2020-04-25 14:38|| Front Page Top

#14  On the other hand Miami has not had a murder in 7 weeks; a first in 63 years.
Posted by JohnQC 2020-04-25 17:27||   2020-04-25 17:27|| Front Page Top

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