Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett can add another bloody weekend in the Circle City to his legacy.
At least 17 people shot were shot, one person stabbed, and one person killed from Friday through Sunday.
Our city is averaging one person shot or stabbed every 5.09 hours for the month of June and one homicide every 39 hours.
Indianapolis is still outpacing Chicago in homicides per capita.
After breaking the record for criminal homicides in 2020, the city is on pace to surpass the previous year’s numbers in 2021. Criminal homicides are up by nearly 40%.
In Hogsett’s defense, Indy isn’t the only U.S. city experiencing a massive spike in violent crime.
Killings have been on the rise in Atlanta, Portland, Minneapolis, and several other major cities for more than a year.
In 2020, homicides in Portland, Ore., rose to 53 from 29, up more than 82 percent; in Minneapolis, they grew to 79 from 46, up almost 72 percent; and in Los Angeles, the number increased to 351 from 258, a 36 percent climb, according to statistics published by the New York Times.
Increases have continued in 2021.
Homicides in Philadelphia are up almost 28 percent, with 170 through May 9, compared with 133 in the same period last year; in Tucson, Ariz., the number jumped to 30 from 17 through May 13, an increase of 76 percent.
Meanwhile, Democrats in these crime-stricken U.S. cities offer increasingly laughable explanations for the astronomical spike in violent crime.
In Atlanta, where homicides are up nearly 60% in 2021, Democrat Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms blamed Republicans in the statehouse for ending Georgia’s COVID-19 restrictions too soon.
“Remember in Georgia we were opened up before the rest of the country, even before the CDC said that it was safe for us to open so our night clubs and our bars remained open so we had people traveling here from across the country to party in our city,” Bottoms told MSNBC in a Friday interview.
In a separate MSNBC interview, a ‘Defund The Police’ activist had the audacity to blame police officers for the rise in violent crime.
Cops are not the enemy.
Maybe it’s time for Democrats to take some responsibility for their support of the anti-police rhetoric of the last year and the broken justice system in their respective cities.
Are you listening, Mayor Hogsett?
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