[Hoot Gibson]

As I said, violent crimes are up this year over 2020.

Violent Crime Up, Other Offenses Down in 2021
Homicide rates in major U.S. cities in the first half of 2021 remained above the levels of recent years, the think tank Council on Criminal Justice said in an update of earlier reports. Homicides jumped 16 percent compared with the first half of 2020, an increase of 259, and by 42 percent from the first half of 2019, up by 548. The rate of increase slowed from the first to the second quarter of 2021. The homicide rate still was much below that of the early 1990s, 15 deaths per 100,000 residents compared 28 murders per 100,000 in 1993.

The report was based on a survey of 29 major cities, ranging from Norfolk, Va.,population 245,000, to Los Angeles, popuation 3.97 million.
Our conclusions have not changed, said authors criminologist Richard Rosenfeld of the University of Missouri St. Louis an Ernesto Lopez: "As the pandemic subsides, long-lasting reductions in violence and crime will require pursuing evidence-based crime-control strategies and enacting long-needed reforms to policing."

Aggravated and gun assault rates were higher in the first half of 2021 than in 2020. Aggravated assault rates increased nine percent while gun assault rates went up five percent. Motor vehicle theft rates were 21 percent higher.

“The rate of increase slowed from the first to the second quarter of 2021. The homicide rate still was much below that of the early 1990s, 15 deaths per 100,000 residents compared 28 murders per 100,000 in 1993.”


Hoot, you are not proving your case that America is more violent under Biden.

What part of

Homicides jumped 16 percent compared with the first half of 2020

and 

Aggravated and gun assault rates were higher in the first half of 2021 than in 2020.

do you not understand? Also, the "rate of increase slowed" does not mean that the rate declined. It means that the homicide rate continued to increase in the second quarter but at a slower rate than it increased in the first quarter over fourth quarter 2020. 

And you want us to believe that you read and understood over 4,400 pages of Democrat spending bills. 

I understand completely. You can’t prove what you were trying to say; under Biden we have more violent crime. It’s not true. At the end of the year you may be able to revisit and prove what you are trying to say. 

more proof you just spout stuff that have nothing to do with a thread little support.  Then you try to insult posters who question your sources and points. 

the whole argument is a fallacy. People can question the septic sucking truck named Steve Bannon and also be concerned about crime.

You're are drowning here, Cardfan1. I said that violent crime has increased under this administration and the evidence proves that I am right. There is nothing wrong with my sources. You attempted to refute my claim with your own article but the problem is that you actually proved my point because you misinterpreted the data. When somebody is right, the worst thing that you do is attempt to correct them.

This is relevant to this thread. Steve Bannon is guilty of nothing but liberals are acting as if he committed a violent crime with his word choice and that he is advocating violence. He did no such thing. Liberals should be focused on actual violent crimes, which occur at higher rates in the cities that they govern. That has been true for decades. The police are not causing this problem and defunding police departments will only make the problem worse.