{"id":1222377,"date":"2022-01-18T14:25:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T19:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1222377"},"modified":"2022-01-18T14:25:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T19:25:13","slug":"new-york-times-wonders-if-policing-stigma-partially-caused-nationwide-murder-spike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-times-wonders-if-policing-stigma-partially-caused-nationwide-murder-spike\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times Wonders If Policing Stigma Partially Caused Nationwide Murder Spike"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-york-times-wonders-if-policing-stigma-partially-caused-nationwide-murder-spike%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1222377&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/18\/briefing\/crime-surge-homicides-us.html\">theorized<\/a> on Tuesday that increased scrutiny of police, as well as reductions in proactive police presences in major cities following the death of George Floyd in 2020 and the subsequent Black Lives Matter protests, may have in part allowed for homicides to increase rapidly over the past year and a half. The paper noted that previous periods involving protests of police also were proceeded by increased murders, but speculated that increase gun ownership and the COVID-19 crisis may have caused the violence as well.<\/p>\n<p>The column noted that in 2020, \u201cmurders in the United States spiked more than 27% \u2014 the largest percentage increase in at least six decades. Last year, murders went up again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for why that happened, the paper also blamed disruptions from the pandemic such as a loss of social services and inadequate schooling which typically kept troubled youth off the streets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fallout from the 2020 racial justice protests and riots could have contributed to the murder spike,\u201d the NYT wrote. \u201cPolice officers, scared of being caught in the next viral video, may have pulled back on proactive anti-violence practices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore of the public lost confidence in the police, possibly reducing the kind of cooperation needed to prevent murders,\u201d it added. \u201cIn extreme circumstances, the lack of confidence in the police could have led some people to take the law into their own hands \u2014 in acts of street or vigilante violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe timing supports this theory, with homicides rising unusually quickly shortly after George Floyd\u2019s murder and the ensuing protests,\u201d it noted. \u201cKillings also spiked in 2015 and 2016, after protests over policing during those years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In wake of the death of George Floyd, many progressive cities rushed to defund the police or cut police funding. That seemed to backfire as crimes of all kinds increased in major American cities and, as The Daily Wire previously reported, some quickly refunded the police in 2021 to deal with the deluge of lawbreaking.<\/p>\n<p>In Minneapolis, where Floyd was killed, Democratic Mayor Jacob Frey<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/refund-the-police-major-cities-are-backtracking-on-police-cuts-after-explosion-of-violent-crime\"> admonished the Left<\/a> last spring for their efforts to abolish the police department:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe violence needs to stop, its unacceptable. People deserve to feel safe in their neighborhood, they deserve to be able to send their kids out to the sidewalk to play and to recreate without bullets flying by. That\u2019s unacceptable. We should be holding these perpetrators accountable,\u201d Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, a Democrat,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2021\/05\/10\/mayor-frey-calls-to-defund-minneapolis-police-have-played-role-in-crime-spike\/\">said<\/a>&nbsp;at a May 7 news conference addressing a spate of violence that ripped through the city.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Frey put much of the blame of rising crime rates on activists\u2019 calls to defund the police in the wake of George Floyd\u2019s death. Floyd\u2019s death last year kicked off massive riots and calls to redirect police funding toward social programs. Violent crime&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/minneapolis-violent-crimes-soared-in-2020-amid-pandemic-protests\/600019989\/\">surged<\/a>&nbsp;21% in Minneapolis last year, and the trend is threatening to continue through 2021.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>By December 2021, the city <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox9.com\/news\/minneapolis-st-paul-end-tumultuous-2021-by-increasing-police-spending\">had increased<\/a> spending to $192 million after more than 300 police officers had left the force, many due thanks to low morale.<\/p>\n<p>Still though, the New York Times concluded that to truly solve the problem of crime in cities, \u201cthere\u2019s solid evidence for policing \u2014 specifically, more focused policing, targeting the people and places most likely to be violent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However the paper noted, that in the long-term, \u201cexperts support a range of solutions that enrich both individuals\u2019 and communities\u2019 socioeconomic standing over time; they include preschool programs, summer job initiatives, raising the school dropout age, greening of vacant lots, more streetlights and expanded drug treatment. There\u2019s also good evidence for gun control and higher alcohol taxes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times theorized on Tuesday that increased scrutiny of police, as well as reductions in proactive police presences in major cities following the death of George Floyd in 2020 and the subsequent Black Lives Matter protests, may have in part allowed for homicides to increase rapidly over the past year and a half. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1222377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1222377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1222377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1222377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1222377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}