
Black and Hispanic crime—often drug- and gang-related—resulted in at least 1,044 homicides and over 5,742 shootings in Los Angeles and Chicago alone in 2016—an average of 3 murders and 15 shootings per day. The sharp rise in crime rates is directly proportional to the rapidly dropping white populations, and the fact that nonwhites now compromise more than 70 percent of the population of both those cities. According to the Los Angeles Times, violent crime in that city has increased for the third year in a row, “as police tried to stem a rash of homicides and gang-related shootings while dealing with a growing homeless population.” Figures issued by the Los Angeles Police Department showed that there were 1,705 rapes, 9,819 robberies, and 15,198 aggravated assaults in 2016. In addition, there…