The Crime Report (https://thecrimereport.org/category/violence/)
Campuses are becoming battlegrounds for society’s violent fringes. Two universities are denying requests to speak from white nationalist Richard Spencer, a lead speaker in Charlottesville.
Militias have made public statements of neutrality but they are growing increasingly close to a segment of the right. Va. Gov. Terry McAuliffe complains that “they had better equipment than the State Police.”
The rate of hospital employees intentionally injured on the job at the hands of another person is significantly higher than the rate across all private industries. “Just going into work is a high-risk endeavor,” said Lisa Wolf of the Emergency Nurses Association.
Still, the outlook is grim. Rioters in 2015 targeted pharmacies, whose copious supply of opiates flooded the market, fueling competition among vicious gangs that vie for control of the business and have no compunction about settling turf wars with bullets.
Murder in New Orleans is worse per capita than it is in Chicago, and statistics from the first two months of the year suggest 2017 will be bloodier than 2016. Crime expert Jeff Asher offers some remedies.
Six people were killed Monday night and yesterday, prompting Police Commissioner Kevin Davis to put officers on 12-hour shifts. He joined community members in being “pissed off” about the violence.
With the city on pace for its deadliest year ever, the Baltimore Sun reached out to more than two dozen people who live and work in the city, including community members, business executives, faith leaders, elected officials, police officers and others. Many said they see the city in crisis, with no clear path forward.
Police say they need leads to solve a series of killings in the past few days. In one, the parents of a seven-year-old girl were killed in a car, and she was critically injured.
Jeremy Christian delivered a slur-filled diatribe at a girl wearing a hijab and killed two men who came to her aid. Officials and the Council on American-Islamic Relations have condemned the attack.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions believes that more-aggressive prosecution of drug cases will help reduce crime. Some research indicates that arresting drug dealers can destabilize a criminal ecosystem and produce more violence.