Nick Reed PODCAST: 10.07 - Crime Increase In The Last 5 Years
Hour 1 - Nick Reed talks about a variety of topics in the news, including: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is lashing out at Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx for citing "mutual combatants" in her decision not to press charges against those arrested in a deadly daylight neighborhood shootout between rival gangs. Residents of Chicago say "Chicago is like Afghanistan on a good day, and that's a problem." In 2015, Michael Brown robbed a convenience store and was justifiably shot in self-defense while assaulting the police officer who attempted to confront him. An editorial piece by the Washington Examiner say that five years of anti-police activism did not save black lives. In 2015, there were 6,237 black murder victims in the United States. FBI data released Monday show that this number rose to 9,941 in 2020. That is a 59% increase in just five years. Blacks now comprise 56% of all murder victims, the highest share since 1985.