The Detroit Free Press: Coronavirus, protests cause for recent violent crime spike, DPD chief James Craig says
An upswing in violence that has led to:
June 21: Police: 1 dead, 11 wounded in weekend shootings across Detroit
June 22: Gunman opens fire outside Detroit home injuring man, 2 children
June 22: Man denied bond after fight in southwest Detroit ends in fatal shooting (Surprise - the perp turns out to be a felon in possession)
June 24: Overnight, bullets rain on Detroit in several shooting incidents, injuring 7 and killing 1
That's just some of the Detroit crime headlines from the past few days. Interestingly, there are no BLM protests on behalf of these particular black lives.
Violent crime in Detroit is up 7.5% this month.
Some of this is just nice weather letting the thugs come out. Some of it is pent-up aggression from the Coronavirus lockdown and then the protests whipping up anger. Much of it however is just Detroit criminals being Detroit criminals, and likely with the police shying away from aggressively enforcing the law in the City as the BLM and defund the police movement throws its weight around.
Unfortunately, I expect this crime trend to continue to increase, and expect spilalge from Detorir into the surrounding burbs, which is already occurring with Detroit thugs venturing forth - 2 wounded, 1 killed in encounter in West Bloomfield Twp. shooting.
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