Homicide Rates Soar in Blue Cities Across the Nation. Is There Hope Moving Forward into 2022?

Editorial Staff - January 8, 2022

With Blue cities like Philadelphia, PA, Portland, Ore., Louisville, Ky., and Albuquerque, N.M., closing out 2021 with their deadliest years on record. With Philadelphia, the nation’s sixth-largest city, recording a record high 562 homicides surpassing its previous high of 500 set in 1990. There is no denying that there is a problem, and it needs to e addressed.

But, as the expression goes, "There's a new sherrif in town" as new mayors were elected in major cities last year with tough-on-crime messages.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a retired New York Police Department captain, promised to reinstate a plain-clothes anticrime unit that was criticized as being too aggressive in the past. Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens promised to hire hundreds of new police officers (WSJ). A look at the effort in New York to beef up police (Fox News). The truth is were these just empty promises as are made by politicians to get themselves elected? Or will they be carried out in the future. Well only time will tell, but we have to have faith in someone.