"Unfortunately, however, the 25-plus year drop in crime since 1992 has ended for many cities across the United States. The rise in crime, especially violent crime, started taking place around 2015 after the confluence of a series of events that took place over the course of a few years.
Those events include police-involved shootings of black community members,4
The Washington Post has a comprehensive database of every fatal shooting by an on-duty police officer in the United States since January 1, 2015. Since its inception, there have been more than 5,000 such shootings (as of October 18, 2022), including 1,695 blacks, 1,135 Hispanics, 3,204 whites, and 259 others. That represents 41 blacks per million, 29 Hispanics per million, 16 whites per million, and five per million for others. Over 95 percent of people shot and killed are males, more than 50 percent of whom were between 20 and 40 years old. See The Washington Post, “Fatal Force,”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphic ... -database/ (accessed November 2, 2022). Some of the names of those shot and killed by the police have been household names and rallying cries in the so-called social justice movement in the United States, which started in earnest in 2014 after the death of Eric Garner in July 2014. Subjected to a choke hold by NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo, Garner said “I can’t breathe” numerous times and later died. His death was classified as a homicide, but the officer was not indicted, and an uproar followed across the country. A month later, in Ferguson, Missouri, Officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown after Brown had resisted arrest, fled, and then attacked Officer Wilson. Wilson was not charged. After 2014, other blacks shot by police that rose to national attention and fueled racial strife and unrest across the country included Freddie Gray in Baltimore in 2015; Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky, in 2020; and George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, also in 2020.
the defund the police movement,5
Democratic mayors, city council members, state legislators, and Democratic Members of Congress have all called for defunding the police in recent years. The Republican Study Committee has compiled a list of Members of Congress who have called for defunding the police. See Republican Study Committee, “Looking Back: Democrats Push to Defund the Police,”
https://rsc-banks.house.gov/democrats-p ... und-police (accessed November 2, 2022). Eventually, calls to defund the police backfired on the Democrats as it became clear that cutting the size of police departments, especially in high-crime areas, only harmed the residents of those cities and caused voters, including Democrats, to feel unsafe in their own cities. No doubt realizing that calling for defunding the police was an albatross around the Democratic Party’s neck, President Joe Biden, during his March 2022 State of the Union Address to the nation, said, “We should all agree: The answer is not to defund the police. The answer is to FUND the police with the resources and training they need to protect our communities.” See “Remarks of President Joe Biden—State of the Union Address as Prepared for Delivery,” The White House, March 1, 2022,
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo ... delivered/ (accessed November 2, 2022). Emphasis in original. Despite the President’s rhetoric and attempt at damage control, the fact is that defunding of police department budgets and repeated calls to defund the police have become a political liability going into the 2022 midterm elections.
the election of rogue prosecutors funded or inspired by George Soros and other elitist billionaires,"