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A curfew will be in effect at 5 p.m. Sunday. It goes on with the district attorneys' reluctance to prosecute quality-of-life crimes and some City Council Members who don't want us to deal with quality of life at all," he said. Pool Play Salt Lake City Elevate. “And, in March and April, we saw prisoners, many who were convicted prisoners and parolees, released from Rikers due to COVID... On top of all this, the courts have been shut down and many individuals who are indicted by a grand jury on gun charges are not in jail but instead are free awaiting for the courts to open up. With the way the blue mayors and governors have reacted to ‘resolve’ the problem of the CV-19 scamdemic, it was ending too soon before the election, and another crisis had to be manufactured. Summer Taylor, a 24-year-old veterinary clinic worker, died that night.Reports of violence in Seattle were otherwise slightly fewer than they were last June, when 371 instances of violent crime were recorded, compared to this June, which has seen 358, according to Seattle Police Department There have been 17 murders in Seattle so far this year, according to the data. The Democrat-controlled Seattle City Council voted late on Monday to advance a highly controversial plan to defund the Seattle Police Department as violent crime and far-left riots have rocked the city in recent months. There were 28 total murders in the city in 2019.Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inboxThis material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. “I just feel there is a lack of police presence, even though you see them, they’re not engaging with the people who are out here dragging racing their cars till midnight or one o’clock, even when you’re calling them they don’t show up.”“I think the police have the most difficult job in the country,” a third resident said. It’s an increase from the same time in 2019 which had 163 reported crimes and 2018 which had 175 reported crimes.The increase is 30 percent comparing crimes against people from 2019 to 2020 and a 50 percent increase comparing property crimes from 2019 to 2020.“It’s a little disappointing,” another resident said. (Doug Brown via AP) Acevedo said at the time that the department was particularly wary of drug trafficking and gang activity, and said statistics showed an increase in drug-related murders.Speaking about bail reform in the city, Acevedo told KTRK: "At the end of the day, when we see people going in one door and out the other door and recommitting violent crimes while they are out on bond, that is a problem we need to look at.”Acevedo also serves as the president of the Major Cities Chiefs Police Association.“It’s all of the above, plus the fact in the last few years we’ve been seeing criminal justice reform, that we support as police chiefs, going from a mindset of, ‘We should focus on violent criminals,’ to now, ‘We should coddle everybody not just low-level misdemeanors and non-violent suspects, but even violent individuals.’ I think we’re starting to see the impact across the nation.”The California city, which boasts a population of more than 4 million people, has seen a recent surge in violence, with 49 shootings and 14 fatal shootings from July 8 to the end of June, according to There were 19 murders from June 21 to July 5, compared to nine in the same period in 2019, the Los Angeles Times reported.According to the LAPD’s year-to-date crime data, there have been 1,198 “shots fired” incidents, with 524 shooting victims, compared to the 1,204 incidents and 549 victims reported for 2019.Amid tension between the police department and activists over its use-of-force tactics, city leaders voted to slash the LAPD's nearly $2 billion budget by $150 million, reducing the number of officers to a level not seen for more than a decade.He stressed to the outlet that 2019 had some of the lowest murder numbers the city had seen since the 1960s.The number of shootings skyrocketed in New York City with a 277 percent increase of 49 incidents from July 6 to July 12, compared to the 13 reported during the same time last year.