More shooting fatalities, injuries already reported in Seattle area than in 2020
Another fine example of exceptionalism in government
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Seattle has already seen more fatalities and injuries from shootings in 2021 than throughout the entirety of 2020.
© John Moore/Getty Images More shooting fatalities, injuries already reported in Seattle area than in 2020
Data from the King County prosecutor's Shots Fired Project showed that 73 people were killed and another 283 injured in shootings in the county this year by the end of September, according to The Seattle Times.
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Data from the Shots Fired Project accounts for 79 percent of the county's population, the Times reported.
In all of 2020, there were 69 firearm-related homicides and 268 nonfatal shootings. Between 2017 and 2020, total gunshot victims increased by 36 percent in the Seattle area based on these figures.
"While 2020 set all sorts of records, 2021 is blowing that out of the water," King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg said to The Seattle Times. "It's disheartening to see these numbers continue to go up and I have to think the pandemic has something to do with it."
Satterberg added that economic uncertainty, school closures, isolation and other side effects of the COVID-19 pandemic likely contributed to the increased violence.
"We don't underestimate the devastating consequences that being shot has on somebody's health and life expectancy and economic outlook. It can radically change their life forever," Satterberg also said of people who survived shootings.
Young Black men and people of color are disproportionately affected by the county's gun violence, which remains consistent with past reports. In 2021, 85 percent of victims were male and 81 percent were people of color, the Times reported.
In King County, 7 percent of the population is Black, but 50 percent of the county's shooting victims were Black, the Times also noted.
The reports of gun violence in Seattle come as homicides appear to be up nationwide. The FBI's Uniform Crime Report released last month showed that homicides increased nearly 30 percent from 2019 to 2020.
The jump marked the "largest single-year increase" the FBI has reported since it began collecting this type of data in the 1960s.
The Hill has reached out to the King County Prosecutor's Office for comment.
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Damn didn't necessarily see that coming after 2020 at all........................./S
Sucks for the citizenry as a whole.
Defund the police really works like magic, doesn't it?
SMH
With idiotic cries of "Defund the Police!". NONE of them thought this would happed.
Well, you know the brainiacs really thought it all through................
Well you know what they say, "Liberalism is feelings over intellect disguised as the latter". And it shows here every day.
Are there cries of ''defund the police in Fayetteville NC?'' They seem to be having a bit of a murder problem there as well.
Numbers not percentages please. A 50% increase could mean they had two last year and three this year. Your attempted "whataboutism" is noted.
No shit, Jim the size of a city (population) has everything to do with the murder rate.
Here is one for you, FT. Worth, TX with real numbers, those damn facts.
Your ''lame excuses'' are noted.
Back at ya.
Your defense of a city in which you have no interest is noted. And you didn't give the murder rate. You gave a percentage year over year. Fail
And back at you.
A couple of things, Jim. How do you know that I have no interest in that city? What makes anyone think that you have any interest in Seattle except to try to prove a lame point?
A lot of that is in direct correlation to the illegal immigrant influx and gangs. Especially here in the Charlotte area.
And your deflection from the Fayetteville numbers is noted.
How is Florida doing this year? 2020 was 1,285
I have indirect family (best friend's son and daughter) in Seattle and an ex in Chicago. You?
Yes, of course, it is, LOL yet NC has more murders than NY which has almost twice the population. One would think that there are illegals in NY as well, probably more than NC. Wow there are more than a half million illegals in NYC alone.
I didn't deflect at all, the numbers for Fayetteville are easy enough to find.
In the Seattle city limits and surrounding burbs, 10 related family members throughout the rest of Washington state around 25.
That's a lot. Good for ya then. Hope they aren't in the line of fire. Seriously hope.
Interesting stat.
That is an interesting stat. Would you mind citing the article that quote came from? I would like to read it.
Here's one...........
Thanks, but I would like to read Kavika's article as well...
Actually there were. But then again I don't live in Fayetteville.
You are googling again?
apparently trolling my profile as well.
I guess that's why NC had more murders in 2020 they NY state.
But you know that Fayetteville had ''defund the police'' cries. So you are up to date on the happenings in NC.
Why yes I am, the CDC report was quite informative and pretty much laid waste to the article.
Don't assume, Jeremy you know what they say about that.
You've stated that you were 82nd Airborne (retired) the 82nd is stationed at Ft. Bragg. You stated that you live in NC so mentioning Fayetteville isn't that much of a stretch.
Your welcome.
Hurling insulting comments never rises to the level of debating an article. Btw the article is about Seattle.
You should always practice what you preach, Vic. So producing a counter point and showing that the murder rate across the US is at record levels isn't productive debating?
Are you afraid of facts that counteract BS?
If I was hurling insults I would think that you would be flagging them, since you flag most everything that you don't like whether it's a violation or not.
Carry on
maybe if you strip out NYC.
So you move the goal posts from a specific city to the entire state. You trolled my profile (how else would you assume I live in Fayetteville), do you actually think I live in the state and not know what's going on?
Yes, I was in the 82d Airborne. I've also been assigned to 1st Infantry Division, 2nd Infantry Division, 3rd Infantry Division, 1st Corps Support Command, 18th Fires Brigade and USAJFCSWCS.
There are 5 active duty military installations in NC. Cherry Point, Camp LeJeune, Fort Bragg, Seymour Johnson Air Base. You assumed I live in Fayetteville with vague information. Don't think you know anything based on vague information. It can come back and bite you in the ass.
I dont't how that bit me in the ass. It kind of like when you ask for some proof of voter suppression and I gave you links to current cases and you stated that you'd read them and I never did hear back from you.
See how that works?
I'm not sure how you think it lays waste to the article, if anything it seems to reaffirm it. While murder rates rising nationally are a result of multiple reasons, the "defund the police" movement can't be discounted as a factor.
No, I did not troll your profile that is a flat out lie. I told you how I came to the conclusion, believe it or not I really don't care.
Check your facts when it comes to murder/firearm deaths in NY state vs NC state.
I didn't say that ''defund the police'' didn't have some responsibity in the rise of deaths, but I believe that it's given way to much credit for the increase in deaths.
I think your'e a little confused. Different group.
Are you afraid of facts that counteract BS?
Facts have to relate to the subject at hand. I'm not interested in you googling red states & cities to try and contradict a settled fact. What has happened to Seattle the past year was all preventable.
You should always practice what you preach, Vic.
I have.
And many of us think it's been given way too little.
I think it's just wrong we have so many guns in America. This is why I continue to support President Biden's plan to send them all to Afghanistan with the new mostly peaceful Taliban and Isis-Special K.
I don't understand the back-and-forth disputes here. After all, shootings and deaths, It's just another day in America. I just wish that Americanism didn't seep across its northern border so much.
Why not? The Canadian marijuana is seeping across our border. We have good trade with Canada, so fair is fair.
There's a difference. What's going north is bad while what's going south is good.
And American guns are 'seeping' across our border ... anytime you want to change the direction of the flows is good with me.