A couple days ago D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier hosted fellow chiefs from Chicago, Atlanta, Baltimore and other cities to discuss their rising violent crime. The Major Cities Chiefs Association (MCCA) convened the meeting after a survey of its members showed police in many cities are seeing more crimes committed with firearms and more killings. According to the Washington Post, which ran a
story on the meeting, four of the nation’s largest cities — New York, Chicago, Houston and Philadelphia — recorded a rise in homicides by mid-July compared with the same period in 2014. That same Post report noted, unsurprisingly, that those in attendance want to push for more gun control to respond to the problem:
Among the recommendations that came out of the summit, the chiefs called for more stringent gun laws, including harsher penalties for gun crimes and the use of high-capacity magazines.
“We’re going to shooting scenes now where you’ve got more and more victims being shot, you’ve got more spent rounds being collected as evidence and we’re finding more and more high-capacity magazines involved in these shootings,” Manger said.
Yesterday, the Atlanta Chief of Police George Turner
spoke to NPR, and he pointed to the real problem - a small number of repeat offenders. This at a time when
President Obama and Virginia
Governor Terry McAuliffe, among others, want to roll back many tough on crime measures that were put in place in the 90s.
Chief Turner hit the nail on the head when he talked about repeat offenders - people that should be in prison but aren't. On Monday,
Cherylyn Harley LeBon, contributing fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis, discussed the increase in violent crime in Baltimore and other U.S. cities with NRANews' Cam Edwards. The city of Baltimore has seen a record number of
homicides this year, 189 by the end of July. July 2015 was the single deadliest month in 43 years.
The solution is not more gun control, it is more criminal control.
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