{"id":574578,"date":"2021-06-26T14:06:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T18:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=574578"},"modified":"2021-06-26T14:06:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T18:06:03","slug":"elder-vp-harris-what-about-the-root-cause-of-urban-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elder-vp-harris-what-about-the-root-cause-of-urban-homicide\/","title":{"rendered":"ELDER: VP Harris, What About The \u2018Root Cause\u2019 Of Urban Homicide?"},"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\">22<\/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%2Felder-vp-harris-what-about-the-root-cause-of-urban-homicide%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=574578&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\/8A4948AB-66D9-4052-AA50-1D7403B756BD-1200x800-1.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Vice President Kamala Harris just returned from Guatemala where she discussed the \u201croot cause\u201d of the post-election \u201csurge\u201d of \u201cmigrants\u201d to our southern border. Harris said, \u201cPeople leave home \u2026 because they don\u2019t have opportunities there to fulfill their basic needs like feeding their children or keeping a roof over their head, or they\u2019re fleeing some kind of harm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the USA also faces a surge in crime, including homicide, in many American cities. Why aren\u2019t we discussing this root cause? It cannot be because, as Harris says about migrants, people \u201cdon\u2019t have opportunities there to fill their basic needs.\u201d After all, these migrants come precisely because they see opportunity here that they do not see in their home countries.<\/p>\n<p>But about Los Angeles, the local NBC affiliate recently reported: \u201cOne hundred forty-one people have been murdered so far in 2021, a 22% increase over the same period in 2020. Six hundred people have been struck by gunfire in shootings in 2021, a 59% increase over this time last year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>About Chicago, the Chicago Sun-Times recently reported: \u201cChildren in Chicago are dying from gun violence at a rate three times higher than last year. \u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTen children aged 15 or younger have been shot dead so far this year, up from the three children fatally shot during the same time period in 2020. \u2026 And that\u2019s more than the number killed in all of 2019, the data shows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The city of Chicago often leads the nation in the total number of homicides, but the annual homicide rate (murders per 100,000 residents) in a dozen or so big American cities is often higher than that of Chicago \u2014 some of them much higher. In 2018, the Pew Research Center wrote: \u201cThe cities that perennially have the most murders per capita have homicide rates that are much higher than the nationwide average. In St. Louis and Baltimore, for instance, murder rates in 2017 were more than 10 times the U.S. average of 5.3 homicides per 100,000 people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What about the race of the victims? The New York Post writes: \u201cVictims of \u2026 homicides are disproportionately African American. At least 8,600 Black lives were lost to homicide in 2020, an increase of more than 1,000 compared to 2019 (7,484). Violent crime is concentrated in primarily low-income, marginalized Black communities where the police are underresourced and Democratic leadership has abysmally failed. In Chicago, 80 percent of gun-violence victims in 2020 were Black. According to the latest data in New York City, 71?percent of shooting victims are Black \u2014 even though Black people constitute just 26 percent of the city\u2019s population. The tragic reality is one Black life was killed less than every hour in America last year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Is police brutality and\/or \u201csystemic racism\u201d to blame? About the racism-is-the-cause argument, the Manhattan Institute\u2019s Heather Mac Donald points out: \u201cAnti-cop activists and many academics claim that racial crime disparities are simply a product of racist police deployment. Cops are oversaturated in African-American neighborhoods, the activists argue (ignoring the pleas for help from community residents). Once there, officers discover the same crimes that go undetected in white communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the bodies don\u2019t lie. Blacks between the ages of ten and 43 die of homicide at 13 times the rate of whites, according to the CDC, thanks to comparably high rates of violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unless one is prepared to argue that Blacks are simply genetically more inclined to commit homicide, where is the discussion about \u201croot causes\u201d? When there is a horrific urban shooting, Democrats are quick to call for more gun control legislation. Democrats, when there is an alleged case of police abuse against a Black suspect, demand police reform, with some elected officials even calling for a defunding of the police. Democrats, when it comes to disparities in homeownership or net worth, readily talk about the \u201clegacy of slavery and Jim Crow,\u201d while failing to address, let alone explain, the increase in the rate of unmarried motherhood in America following the \u201960s \u201cwar on poverty.\u201d And despite clear evidence about the relationship between crime and fatherlessness, the left does not want to talk about that \u201croot cause.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Larry Elder is a bestselling author and nationally syndicated radio talk show host. His latest book, \u201cThe New Trump Standard,\u201d is available in paperback from Amazon.com and for Nook, Kindle, iBooks and GooglePlay. To find out more about Larry Elder, or become an \u201cElderado,\u201d visit www.LarryElder.com. Follow Larry on Twitter @LarryElder. To read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Kamala Harris just returned from Guatemala where she discussed the \u201croot cause\u201d of the post-election \u201csurge\u201d of \u201cmigrants\u201d to our southern border. Harris said, \u201cPeople leave home \u2026 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2281426,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/8A4948AB-66D9-4052-AA50-1D7403B756BD-1200x800-1.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"ELDER: VP Harris, What About The \u2018Root Cause\u2019 Of Urban Homicide?","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/8A4948AB-66D9-4052-AA50-1D7403B756BD-1200x800-1.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"ELDER: VP Harris, What About The \u2018Root Cause\u2019 Of Urban Homicide?","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574578","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=574578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}