Homicides are plummeting. In all 10 cities with the most 2023 homicides—for which we have data—homicides are falling. The pandemic crime wave is crashing hard. If these percentage decline numbers were percentage growth numbers, it would be the lede of every cable news show—>
@DKThomp So, if the "racial reckoning's" homicide spree is finally petering out, how many incremental blacks did The Establishment's endorsement of Black Lives Matter help get murdered during their George Floyd Freakout of 2020-2023? Vastly more than were ever lynched in US history.
@DKThomp 📣 Another great example to illustrate that when NEWSROOMS choose to repeatedly & disproportionately FEATURE poll results (*vibes*) in their HEADLINES & social media posts, news folks are fueling misconceptions instead of serving a mission of CLARIFYING things for the public
@DKThomp we should devote policy to periodically causing giant crime waves like in 2020-22 so that we can congratulate ourselves for the large percentage reduction from those peaks later
@DKThomp @BestOfTVBots LOL! Kansas City set the all time homicide record in 2023. You can pick your data points to help Biden but its not gonna help.
@DKThomp @CMSeeberger Were you in Chicago last night? Oakland? Baltimore? New Orleans? Stop citing ridiculous stats in a time when our cities are awash in crime and Democratic DAs are continuously letting the criminals back out onto the streets.
@DKThomp Here are annual gun homicides by year from Gun Violence Archive and traffic fatalities for the first 9 months of each year from NHTSA. Both Deaths of Depolicing are still way up from 2014, when BLM emerged at Ferguson: