You might have thought that when you hear a newscaster or reporter call a major U.S. city a “war zone” because of the high crime and murders occurring there that it was just an exaggeration. It turns out that it isn’t.
“Per capita murder rates in major U.S. cities such as Chicago, Baltimore and St. Louis are outpacing Ukraine’s recorded civilian death rate from Russia’s invasion,” according to Just The News.
Think about that. Cities that get touted as examples of successful progressive places to live have more people dying, relatively, than a nation at war. Cities that held “most peaceful protests” are less safe than a nation at war.
Now ask yourself this: If we are so upset with what is happening in Ukraine, why aren’t we even more upset with what is happening in our own country?
The website compiled information from the United Nations Human Rights Office, U.S. Census Bureau, and other sources to calculate the murder rates between the Ukraine and U.S. cities.
In Ukraine, 5,401 civilians have been killed in Ukraine since Russia’s attack began in February (this is actually believed to be an underestimate). With a population of about 41,167,300, this makes Ukraine’s civilian death rate 13.12 per 100,000 people using official statistics from the United Nations, according to Just The News.
Sadly, there are American cities where this would be an improvement. Baltimore’s homicide rate is 37.3 so far this year or 215 deaths. If the city had the Ukraine’s war-time death rate, the city would have had only 76 murders.
St. Louis’s murder rate is 38.2 per 100,000 so far in 2022. Chicago’s is 14.8 per 100,000.
“Using pre-pandemic data, 52 U.S. cities had worse homicide rates than Ukraine’s civilian death rate. However, crime in the United States has skyrocketed since then, meaning that there may be more cities that qualify as deadlier than Ukraine under assault by Russian forces,” Just The News reported.
How scary is that?
Maybe an investigative reporter should compare property damage between the Ukraine and these major U.S. cities that suffered, in some cases, billions of dollars of damage. How comparable would those numbers be?
What’s worse is that the Democrat leadership of these U.S. cities has not done anything to make the situation better. Crime is still rising and property damage is often not even prosecuted in some cities. In fact, with defunding the police, bail reform, strict controls of what police can and can’t do, it has actually made things worse in those cities.
The Democrat-controlled Congress has also been largely behind pushing aid for Ukraine to help them because they have been so hard hit in their war. However, perhaps that money might be better spent helping major U.S. cities fight crime and lower their crime rates to a level equal or less than that of war-torn Ukraine.
It turns out that our American cities are war zones, and just like in a declared war, it is often the civilians, the innocent, who suffer the most. That’s the case in Ukraine, and that’s the case in America.
Michael A. Letts is the CEO and Founder of In-VestUSA, a national grassroots non-profit organization helping hundreds of communities provide thousands of bulletproof vests for their police forces through educational, public relations, sponsorship, and fundraising programs.
What do you expect us to do? Fly a Chicago flag? Donate to some right wing charity? No, this is Trumps legacy he should pay.
First we have to name the problem.
The Violent Crime problem in American cities is primarily (not only) a Black/Mixed Race problem.
Why do Black people commit so many violent crimes is the question we need to ask?
And we mustn’t be afraid to consider all reasonable answers to that question.ňno matter how politically incorrect.
Black/Mixed Race violent criminals though a minority of the Black/Mixed Race population are wrecking American cities.
We have to begin to deal with this blight. I am fed up with not being able to walk my own home city.
And yes I have Black friends.
They too are under threat.from Black violence.
Leftist ignorance and refusal to face reality never ends. The cities with these outrageous murder rates and other forms of criminal mayhem are ALL IN CITIES AND STATES RUN BY DEMOCRATS! Their ideology is designed to achieve these results. These are Marxist elitists, many are eugenicists, who see the world through their oracle of Communism where the regular people are little more than serfs. Black Lives Matter was formed by a leftist, communist, lesbian who is nothing more than a strategic grifter using the undeserved guilt of Americans as a means of donation to a blatantly racist organization that hates everyone else. While doing so, she commandeered millions of donated dollars to purchase multiple mansions (in exclusive areas where her own people were absent) and then went on to add family to the payroll shelling out $$$ in clear acts of nepotism without any concern that her investments in real estate we’re taking from the BLM coffers $$ that could be used, as it was marketed to be for, suffering Black communities. How horribly ironic that those needing the greatest amount of assistance were those very blacks living in the worst crime infested cities run by other Communist-leftists Democrats with which this BLM founder is tightly associated. The human carnage throughout our country silently avoided by the media, but directly as a result of BLM, the billions of dollars in destroyed property and the economic lives of small business owners as a result of their violent, destructive rage against everyone, followed by the absurdity of defund the police actions in these same states and the all-too-often $$$ of support by George Soros to facilitate soft on crime, no bail prosecutors in these same crime infested states. This is but another example of the mental defectiveness of the Democrat-Communist minions who continue, in spite of the results, to vote for these hideous people and who have placed their entire lives at the unfortunate end of what they continue to think of as their moral virtue. The numbers of innocent people attacked, raped, maimed, carjacked, beaten, kidnapped and murdered only requires a scintilla of common sense to recognize that evil is metasticizing in every one of these communist-leftist run cities and states. I venture a guess if the people making these policies ACTUALLY HAD TO LIVE IN THESE SAME CRIME INFESTED AREAS everything would change. So long as those idiots among us who refuse to face such facts and continue to vote for them, the Communist-Leftist noose slowly closing around their necks will continue until they either wake up or become the very slaves they continue to rage about.
That’s why Matthew Contiretti should have included Orange County California in his history of conservatism even though its lost some of its conservatism since OC cities that have voted for republicans in the past 5 years like Mission Viejo have lower crime rates than LA County cities that voted Democratic the past 5 to 10 years. The right has been mean to OC because of voting dem in elections recently but that is still the Latino and Asian voted more than the white vote. The white vote that votes Dem is usually people that relocated from LA County to Orange County.