right. and oklahoma is hardly alone, the major city cities chief association says in the first six months of this year, robberies and aggravated assaults increased in cities of more than 500,000 people. but this is where statistics can often be used to make whatever point you want to make. the major city chiefs association says murders are down in aggregate in the 70 urban areas they looked at. but for 30 of those 70, murders are up. and those include atlanta, there are big races in georgia right now, and denver, big races in colorado. milwaukee, governor and senate seats on the line in wisconsin. when crime rates go up, local prosecutors pushing criminal justice reform policies, they often get blamed. is that fair? it s usually a lot more complicated than that. take boston, where the district attorney stopped prosecuting nonviolent offenses. what happened there? violent crime decreased, by 15%
did get vaccinated, some of them are still signing off for the last time and publicly choosing to leave their jobs over getting vaccinated. due to my personal choice to take a moral stand against for medical freedom and personal choice i will be signing out of service for the last time today. state 1034. this is the last time you will hear me in a state patrol car and jay inslee can kiss my [ bleep ]. front now, art acevedo. and served as the president of the major city chiefs association. chief acevedo, i really appreciate your time. and this is we have seen this happening across the country, right? police officers. they have, in some cases, you know, vaccine vaccination rates are low. obviously, not the case in seattle but in many other places, much lower than the broader community. and in addition, they are fighting any sort of requirement to get vaccinated or to prove their vaccination status.
to be done. we can t wait to talk about it. it falls on deaf ears. i was president of the major city chiefs association for five years. we did lobby, we ve talked to people about this issue. and what happened? it goes nowhere. it goes absolutely nowhere. you get a lot of noise. you get a lot of talk. but you get absolutely no action. that s what we re seeing here. there won t be any action after this. it s unfortunate, but it s reality. there will not be until people stand up the real power is with the people, not with our elected officials and say, listen, you re not doing anything, you re out of here. that s a message we ve heard over and over again. james galiano, charles ramsey, thank you for all your expertise. john, as you talked about, you hear everybody calling for action and hear everybody calling for action at the ballot box now. we will see where this is an election issue and how much of an election issue it is. it s been kryptonite for so many candidates in so
assault-style weapon, but you can t buy a handgun when you re 18. what is the sense can you please i really want to know this. i don t mean to be facetious about this. what is the logic behind that? how does that make sense? i don t know the logic behind it. but actually in florida, if you re 18, you can get either. so florida has one of the most liberal gun laws in the count country so that s not a federal regulation, that s by state? right. correct. now, if you look at the website of the international association of chiefs of police, the largest police organization in the country, the major city chiefs association, all the major law enforcement associations, they ve come out against these assault weapons, especially these ar-15s for years and years. and during the time that they were controlled or banned, violent gun crime went down 66%. so the assault weapons are the they re not the only issue here. there are many other issues
major city chiefs association and if you look at baltimore, if you look at cleveland, various cities around the country, these issues exist in the disenfranchised communities and here in chicago i can tell you this, we ve walked away from performance-based policeing which is what i learned in new york and why new york is still succeeding. we ve slipped back to political-based policing and it won t succeed. what s different about new york and chicago? that s the difference right there. it makes an impact absolutely on what is happening on the street and this is the results we re seeing. martha: an unacceptable situation and as i said not an america that people want to live in. we have to get to the bottom of it. i know you re trying to do that. gary, thank you so much. bill: 9:30 in mork. it could get very interesting this afternoon. top intel officials getting ready to brief the