the need for police reform is what he has talked about. he has been an absentee president to where does he declare as commander-in-chief no more, this ends now. whatever resources you need i ll provide them. i m certain that republicans would join him on that effort if he made that sort of declaration. harris: it is unbelievable that officials are not even talking about this and that governor hochul can say i m waiting for the data. the homicide numbers are exploding. the violent crime in the city is so painful that the new mayor, eric adams is saying i ll reinstate the homicide units that the last guy deblasio disbanded. he is suddenly now reacting to all of this. of course he has only been in office for less than a month. at first it didn t sound like he would go against the manhattan liberal d.a. now i mean look, you can t ignore it. new york city right now and i want to bring this into focus
stretched to a nearby suburb. the gunman was also killed. they are searching for additional suspects. a small plain crashed into a residential area near san diego. no reports of casualties on the ground but the plane also took down power lines leaving hundreds without electricity. investigation is underway. starting tomorrow children 5 to 11 must be fully vaccinated in dine in new york city restaurants. some tourists say it is frustrating to limit sightseeing to outdoor only activities with their kids and may cut their trip short. we have been telling you how the nation s crime crisis has been surging in 2021 smash and grab robberies, car thefts, homicide numbers on the rise. now we have some grim new numbers. at least 16 cities including
for the year. shootings and homicides increased by 60% during the two years of the pandemic. chief is a 911 dispatcher who handled the emergency the night chicago police officer ella french was shot and killed. the response is credited with saving the life of her partner carlos yanez also shot. this mayor does not care about chicago police officers, period. thornton posted a 30-minute rant on facebook in which he said police are too overwhelmed, understaffed and under supported to handle the crime wave. and he blames the mayor. and i pray you are watching this because you are a disgrace. and i m tired of it. and your city is tired of it. chicago is not alone with the increase in crime. cities like minneapolis, portland, and philadelphia set records for homicides this year. in fact, minneapolis and portland more than doubled their homicide numbers from 2010. bret, back to you. bret: mike tobin live in
about the homicide spike and aggravated assault spike and that s what people are really worried about. bill: what deblasio says. the numbers on overall crime versus murders. he said overall crime in new york is down 11%. murders are up at 37%. make sense of that for us, then. yeah, well again so there are a variety of crimes. things like residential burglaries for example where the opportunities to commit those crimes have gone down in number. whereas homicides haven t been responsive to the pandemic shutdowns in the same way that other crimes have. as more and more people get back out onto the street, more and more businesses open for longer and longer hours, as more and more people start going back to work during the day i think we ll start to see the other numbers catch up. homicide numbers, aggravated assaults have always been indicator for broader crime trends. i fear it will continue to be the case and i don t think the
the baltimore police commissioner michael harrison also president of the police executive research forum which works to combat these crimes. thanks for baltimore. before that, new orleans, how concerned are you by the numbers were seeing so far this year? well, first of all, thank you for having me, jake. jake, we are having concerned, not just in baltimore, but most cities are seeing spikes in their gun violence, their non-fatal shooting numbers and homicide numbers. we re concerned. what i m hearing is, by and large, it s conflict. while many people think it s drug related, some of it, but by and large, i m hearing from all the other chiefs that it s conflict-related, simple petty beefs, arguments and retal a s from previous bad acts, which are conflicts also. then you had almost two years of no trials, no indictments, no