From Breitbart: Only 482 extra Americans have been shot, stabbed, clubbed or kicked to death in 59 large cities since President Barack Obama launched his media-pumped campaign to delegitimize and federalize state and local police forces, according to an new analysis by the FiveThirtyEight.com website.
The toll was calculated by the green-eyeshade reporters at the non-partisan website. The site “compiled 2015 homicide data for nearly all of the 60 biggest cities… [showing] there has been an increase in homicides this year in big U.S. cities of about 16 percent,” the side reported, under the incongruous headline, “Scare Headlines Exaggerated The U.S. Crime Wave.”
Blogger Steve Sailer, a former data-crunching market analyst, did the math, and revealed the numerical death toll as 482 extra dead, including 77 extra dead in Baltimore and 60 extra dead in St. Louis.
“In these 59 cities, the total number of homicides in 2014 through approximately August 8, 2014 was 2,955… the total number of homicides [in 2015] has been 3,437 for an increase of 482 more dead human beings,” Sailer wrote.
The progressives at the FiveThiryEight.com site tried to downplay the death toll. “While a 16 percent increase in U.S. major-city homicides is statistically significant, it comes after decades of declines — the murder rate fell by more than half nationally from its peak in 1980 to 2012,” said the article, which tactfully did not mention the death total, nor the race of the dead.
However, FBI records show that half of the nation’s murder victims are black. If that percentage applies to the new murder data, Obama’s anti-cop campaign has coincided with the death of 241 African-Americans.
That’s 241 times as many African-Americans as were killed in Ferguson, Mo., on March 7, 2014, when Michael Brown was killed while attacking a police officer.
Still, some of the dead are police. At least three of the dead in New York were policemen killed by an angry African-Americans. In addition, an angry African-American killed two of his former journalist colleagues and said the killing was a justified response to their supposed racism.
Cops have blamed Obama and his political allies for some of the cop-killings and the reduced law-enforcement. “This rhetoric has gotten out of control.” said Ron Hickman, a sheriff in Harris County, Texas.
Brown’s death was used by Obama to advance his long-standing effort to centralize state and local law-enforcement under the control of the Department of Justice. After Brown’s death, he and then-Attorney General Holder amped up claims of police brutality, amid riots by local African-Americans who burned streets, wrecked the town’s economy and crashed property-values.
The same sequence occurred in Baltimore, when a black man died in a police van. During the usual riots, police stood by while local drugs pharmacies were raided, releasing a huge quantity of mind-altering drugs into the crime-plagued city. The city has now reached a record murder toll of 215.
