https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/02/capital_punishment_drops_murder_rates_jump_coincidence.htmlFebruary 21, 2022
Capital punishment drops, murder rates jump. Coincidence?By Eric Rozenman
Early this month, New York City police stood 20 rows deep as the hearse carrying the body of Officer Wilbert Mora, 27, passed. Mora and his partner, Jason Rivera, 22, had been ambushed and killed by a repeat felon.
Their murders, two of the city's 485, highlight why crime, especially the nation's surging homicide rate, should join inflation as a fall election issue. Not just crime, but also capital punishment.
The spike in killings nationwide over the past two-plus years reverses nearly two decades of decline. Republicans point at self-described "progressive" Democratic prosecutors who, in the post–George Floyd anti-police atmosphere, decline to try not only shoplifters but also violent offenders.
Victims include growing numbers of policemen like Mora and Rivera. According to the National Fraternal Order of Police, a record 346 officers were shot while on the job last year, of whom 63 died.
One hundred three of those attacks were ambushes like the one that killed Baltimore policewoman Keona Holley, 39, a mother of four. Two suspects were arrested, partly with the aid of surveillance camera images, but not before they drove across the city and allegedly murdered someone else.
The United States, with a population of 330 million, recorded nearly 21,000 homicides in 2021, up approximately five percent from 2020, which spiked 30 percent over 2019. Nine of the 30 biggest cities set records for murder, including more than 500 in Philadelphia. Yet executions of murderers have nearly ceased. Coincidence, correlation, or causation?
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