http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/260047/progressive-crime-wave-grows-matthew-vadumThe Progressive Crime Wave Grows
Murder, murder, everywhere, but Obama's not to blame.
September 7, 2015
Matthew Vadum
Murder rates are skyrocketing in large U.S. cities, but President Obama's progressive pro-crime policies and endless racial provocations have nothing to do with it, the New York Times predictably declared in a recent article.
Nowadays Americans are being killed and maimed explicitly because of their race. Execution-style cop killings are becoming distressingly common. Killings and vicious assaults based on the skin color of the civilian victim are also becoming common.
That any of this is happening shouldn't surprise anyone who follows public events. For years media outlets have acted as uncompensated publicists for the Obama administration's ongoing campaign to turn America into the progressive paradise that is Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe.
And they're still doing it today. Some downplay the evidence of a crime wave.
Smug left-wing journalists Jason Linkins of the Huffington Post and Jesse Walker of Reason snickered at the Manhattan Institute's Heather Mac Donald when she argued in late May that after two decades of falling crime rates nationwide, anti-cop sentiment was boosting crime rates.
The "most plausible explanation of the current surge in lawlessness is the intense agitation against American police departments over the past nine months," wrote Mac Donald in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. Walker wrote at the time that "any talk of a 'nationwide' crime surge is at best premature, at worst sheer fearmongering." Linkins wrote that Mac Donald's column contained "a load of hot nonsense."
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