Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,
US murder rate
sees sharp increase in 2015
Rise in murder, not
in Afghanistan or Syria, but in the U.S. Cities like Milwaukee, Wisconsin, St
Louis, Missouri, and Baltimore, Maryland, each has recorded an over 50%
increase in the number of murders so far this year. Also, large cities like
Washington DC, New York, Dallas, Chicago and Philadelphia have shown steep
rises, though at a lesser extent. Why?
Some say police
officers are now policing the cities and towns not as frequently as they used
to because they are afraid of being charged for excessive use of force, after
the Ferguson incident, the case that a white police officer shot an un-armed African
American teenager and caused a violent racial conflict in the town.
Others say social
factors such as the youth population or dissatisfied social class are to be
blamed.
After all, many of
these murders contribute over 33,000 gun related deaths in America.
Imagine living in
a city where there is a murder case every day.
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