Police chiefs discuss solutions to crime surge

[Little Tich]

Source: Yahoo! News / Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Big city police chiefs on Monday met to discuss rising U.S. crime rates, especially homicides, and blamed repeat offenders, drugs and guns with larger magazines for part of the increase.

The meeting of the Major Cities Chiefs Association, attended also by some prosecutors, came as cities face a recent upturn in violent crime after it fell starting in the 1990s to half-century lows in 2013.

"We came together to help identify ways to interrupt this violent trend and ensure that our cities continue to thrive," the association's president, J. Thomas Manger, said at a news conference.

Homicides in 35 big cities are up 19 percent this year on average, according to an association survey. Sixty-two percent of cities reported increases in non-fatal shootings.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/u-police-chiefs-meet-discuss-crime-surge-154045434.html

[Charles de Gaudless]

1. Here's an idea

How about reducing homicides committed by police?

[840high]

2. Most of the killings in Baltimore, Chicago - are not by cops.

[Charles de Gaudless]

4. See below

[msongs]

3. oh I thought this would be about crimes committed BY police nt

[billhicks76]

5. Gun Culture

Guns are celebrated and war worshiped what do they expect especially with the growing economic divide? Legalizing drugs and curing addiction might help too.

[Skittles]

6. that cannot be

gun humpers repeatedly claim more guns = less crime

[pocoloco]

7. ......and they are right!

How is it working out in England??

http://politicaloutcast.com/2013/01/englands-crime-rate-nearly-four-times-higher-than-united-states/

[Skittles]

16. LOL

"He’s giving them a platform for views that rarely see the light of day on liberal networks."

that's all I needed to read to know it's a crap site

[hack89]

10. No. We claim more guns =/= more crime

at least that is what the past 20 years have told us.

[seveneyes]

8. blamed repeat offenders

The solution is obvious. If someone harms an innocent person, they never get out to do it again.

[Sunlei]

9. how about docking pay of police 1k, every single time they curse at or disrespect any civilian.

every kick or punch or body cattle prod electric shock, dock them 10k.

I don't care what the civilian says, the police must change.

[romanic]

12. That's not going to stop criminals though.

[Sunlei]

13. they could teach their police dogs to sniff for guns in a month with a good instructor.

police don't want to stop real criminals.

[Taitertots]

11. Why not blame the loss of legitimacy caused by allowing crimnality

I blame police criminality.

[romanic]

14. End non-violent imprisonment

That's one of the main factors to the crime surge imo. Stop spending money and manpower on raiding medical marijuana stores and stop putting someone with a little bit of weed in the pokey for a year. Make room for the gang bangers, murderers, rapists and pimps in favor of potheads and innocent folks.

Also, tougher sentences on parolees who violate their parole. There are so many crimes committed by repeat offenders that should have never been on the streets in the first place.

And another thing: train police to stop being suspicious of civies. Again it goes back to manpower, stop trolling someone for having a broken taillight or any minor offenses. Go after the serious criminals instead.

[surrealAmerican]

15. Are police in major cities spending too much of their time ...

... harassing people over petty violations, instead of working to prevent more serious offenses?