The Obama Murders: D.C., Baltimore and Chicago Lead Murder Spike

You know, I was never very good at Clue, but even I can figure this one out.

But even while Americans are increasingly worried about crime, some of the starkest numbers were clustered around just a handful of places. Three cities — Baltimore, Chicago and Washington — accounted for more than half of the total increase in homicides in the country’s 25 biggest cities last year,

What do these places have in common? Obama has rather close ties to D.C. and Chicago. And his backing for the racist hate group Black Lives Matter helped burn Baltimore down.

The Brennan Center is pushing its usual "don't worry about crime and free all the criminals" agenda. But if anything Baltimore is proof of how that experiment turns out.

In Baltimore, the number of killings reached 344 last year, up from 211 a year earlier, the report stated. (This was the deadliest year there since 1993, according to the Baltimore Sun.) Washington had 162 homicides, up from 105 the year before, while Chicago reported 465 homicides, compared with 411 the previous year.

In the midst of all this analysis, there is no mention at all of what happened in Baltimore that might have led to this this spike in homicides. The closest thing to an admission comes at the very end.

Baltimore reported a 16 percent increase in homicides through Saturday over the same date in 2015. Los Angeles registered an 8.8 percent uptick in killings last year. As of last week, the city has had 26 percent more homicides than it did a year earlier. In Chicago, which the Brennan Center said registered more homicides than any other major city last year, the number of killings is up 64 percent this year. That city’s police force is dealing with issues of morale and a federal investigation.

So apparently declaring a war on cops raises murder rates. Who could have predicted that?