{"id":573332,"date":"2021-06-24T17:37:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T21:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=573332"},"modified":"2021-06-24T17:37:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T21:37:15","slug":"it-wasnt-the-pandemic-that-increased-violent-crime-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/it-wasnt-the-pandemic-that-increased-violent-crime-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"It Wasn\u2019t The Pandemic That Increased Violent Crime In America"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fit-wasnt-the-pandemic-that-increased-violent-crime-in-america%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=573332&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1218413543.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The New York Times\u2019 Mara Gay made yet another astounding claim on Thursday\u2019s \u201cMorning Joe\u201d when she attributed the spike in violent crime not only to a lack of federal gun-control laws, but also to the \u201cgeneral upheaval\u201d in the country.<\/p>\n<p>She prefaced this by saying experts can\u2019t explain exactly why crime has spiked across the country in the past year, but said that people (presumably, like herself) who have looked at the issue believe it is due to the \u201cdisruption, trauma, grief, joblessness, homelessness, and just general upheaval that the United States has gone through, particularly communities of color and people living in poverty across the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gay did not name the pandemic as the specific cause of this \u201cupheaval,\u201d but others have used similar language. Law professor John Pfaff, for example, tweeted as much on May 14 in response to a Politico article suggesting the Black Lives Matter protests played a role in the current spike in crime, though the left-leaning website notably didn\u2019t say so specifically.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe exchange exhibited the central role public safety has taken in the eight-way Democratic primary, as gun violence escalates throughout the city one year after anti-police protesters occupied the streets,\u201d Politico wrote in a report about a debate featuring the Democratic New York City mayoral candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Pfaff took issue with the linkage of the \u201canti-police protesters\u201d to the spike in violence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe protests weren\u2019t the only thing that happened in 2020! There was also a pandemic that shut down schools, upended the economy etc etc etc,\u201d Pfaff <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnFPfaff\/status\/1393221121126944779\">tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But civil rights attorney Hans Bader wrote at the time \u201crecent spikes in violent crime&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/libertyunyielding.com\/2021\/03\/20\/the-pandemic-didnt-cause-the-huge-increase-in-the-murder-rate\/\">aren\u2019t due<\/a>&nbsp;to COVID-19 or the economy: homicides&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/criminal-justice\/546445-cities-got-deadlier-in-2020-whats-behind-the-spike-in-homicides\">fell<\/a>&nbsp;during the 2007-2009&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ucr.fbi.gov\/crime-in-the-u.s\/2010\/crime-in-the-u.s.-2010\/tables\/10tbl01.xls\">recession<\/a>, and in many other countries, murder rates actually&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/05\/09\/pandemic-is-no-excuse-for-nycs-rising-tide-of-violent-crime\/\">went down<\/a>&nbsp;during the COVID-19 pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>London, for example, saw a 16% decline in its murder rate in 2020, even though England\u2019s economy shrunk 9.9% during the pandemic, while America\u2019s shrunk only 3.5%. In Italy, murders fell by 14%. Murders in France declined 2% in 2020, while Japan is seeing its lowest murder level since World War II.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in America, shootings have increased 97% in 2020 and continue to rise now. Democrats like Gay and others blame America\u2019s gun laws, even though crime rates aren\u2019t increasing in places that have instituted more gun freedom, like adopting constitutional carry laws.<\/p>\n<p>What is clear to most \u2013 except for the Left \u2013 is that the rise in violence coincided with anti-police rhetoric and laws as well as lawlessness in major cities across the U.S. following the police-involved death of George Floyd. The treatment of police by Democrats and their media supporters led to massive resignations and retirements in the police force.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/06\/24\/us\/police-resignations-protests-asheville.html\">addressed<\/a> the issue after the Asheville Police Department in North Carolina announced it had lost 84 officers and would no longer be able to respond to numerous crimes, including theft from a vehicle if there is no suspect information and simple assaults reported after they occurred. The Times reported on one cop\u2019s experience:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"22\">\n<p><em>As protests surged across the country last year over the death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police, Officer Lindsay C. Rose in Asheville, N.C., found her world capsized.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Various friends and relatives had stopped speaking to her because she was a cop. During a protest in June around Police Headquarters, a demonstrator lobbed an explosive charge that set her pants on fire and scorched her legs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>She said she was spit on. She was belittled. Members of the city\u2019s gay community, an inclusive clan that had welcomed her in when she first settled in Asheville, stood near her at one event and chanted, \u201cAll gay cops are traitors,\u201d she said.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Rose took months off but decided to leave the force when she returned, after serving for seven years. She joined the 84 officers who quit.<\/p>\n<p>The Times admitted the protests and the general anti-cop sentiments led to the resignations, and noted that similar situations are occurring across the country, with retirements up 45% and resignations up 18% between April 2020 and April 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, police forces were shrinking before the George Floyd riots, but the ensuing destruction accelerated the trend.<\/p>\n<p>A lack of support for law and order along with an implicit acceptance of violence and destruction did far more to raise crime rates than the pandemic, which kept people home and away from others.<\/p>\n<p>Even though the Times reported on this phenomenon, it doesn\u2019t appear to have set in with Gay.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/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>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times\u2019 Mara Gay made yet another astounding claim on Thursday\u2019s \u201cMorning Joe\u201d when she attributed the spike in violent crime not only to a lack of federal &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1891875,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573332","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=573332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1891875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}