Guest Post by Michael Snyder
Our cities are filled with extreme violence, and the blood of the innocent flows in our streets, and yet most Americans still seem to be in denial about what is happening. This isn’t just a momentary spike in violent crime that we are witnessing. The increase in violent crime that we experienced in 2020 was unprecedented, and things have been even worse in 2021. If you are not familiar with those numbers, here is a reminder…
Police and public reported data details that from January through March of 2021, the homicide rate rose by 28% from the same period last year in 20 major cities across the country. Homicides had already previously risen by 30% in 2020.
Everyone should be able to agree that we are very rapidly going in the wrong direction.
But many on the left assured us that things would “return to normal” and the violence in the streets would subside once Joe Biden was in the White House.
Obviously, that hasn’t happened. In fact, the violence in New York City over the weekend made headlines all over the nation…
New York City is officially back: almost 30 people were shot in New York City this past weekend – and that number was only up until about 2PM on Sunday.
29 victims in total had been struck by gunfire by early evening Sunday, according to the New York Post, with one reported fatality.
“These kids are having running gun battles and innocents are getting shot,” one veteran NYPD officer told the Post.
Do you remember when New York City was one of the safest big cities in the United States?
Those days are now gone, and violent criminals are having a field day as the Big Apple slowly but surely descends into madness.
Of course New York City still has some catching up to do in order to get to Chicago’s level. During the weekend before last, 48 people were shot, and five of those that were shot ended up dying…
Chicago police are planning to target 15 areas of the city this summer in the battle to combat violence and keep people safe.
The plan comes after a particularly violent weekend in which police say five people were killed and 48 people were shot, including two police officers and six juveniles.
Authorities in Chicago have promised that they will work very hard to implement their plan to fight violent crime, but things certainly didn’t get any better this past weekend.
In fact, they got even worse.
Over the weekend, 55 more people were shot, and 11 more people were killed.
What a nightmare.
But if you want to see a city that is quickly becoming even more violent than Chicago, just check out Minneapolis. Violent crime in the city spiked dramatically in 2020, and the numbers have surged even higher in 2021…
The city has seen a 222 percent increase in carjackings this year compared with this point in 2020, averaging 1.27 incidents per day, according to police data. Homicides are up 108 percent from a year earlier, while shootings have risen 153 percent.
If you are running a city and carjackings, shootings and murders are all up by triple digit percentages, you are definitely not on the right track.
Minneapolis had been the epicenter for the “defund the police” movement, but now that violent crime has started to spiral out of control, the city has decided to bring in outside law enforcement help…
Minneapolis police are bringing in outside help as they try to temper weekend violence that killed a least four people, including a college senior who was out celebrating graduation.
Mayor Jacob Frey, speaking a day after a mass shooting downtown, said the city has asked state and federal agencies for assistance, as Minneapolis police face a shortage of officers.
Is anyone surprised that Minneapolis is now facing a “shortage of officers”?
What did they think was going to happen when city officials endlessly demonized the police?
On the west coast, authorities are facing other sorts of problems. The number of people that died from drug overdoses in San Francisco was twice as high as the number of people that died from COVID last year, and addicts continue to litter the streets with thousands upon thousands of used drug needles. Street crime is completely out of control as addicts endlessly search for money for their next hits, but city politicians keep insisting that they can handle this crisis.
Crime is on the rise from coast to coast, but before I end this article I would like to discuss one more type of violence that we have seen in recent days that is especially chilling.
Israel’s conflict with Hamas sparked a huge wave of anti-Jewish attacks, and many of these incidents made international news…
There were a series of street attacks that authorities are investigating as anti-Semitic attacks in the wake of Israel’s 11-day war with Hamas.
The list includes a Jewish man who was attacked by a pro-Palestinian activist in Times Square, a Jewish teenager was also put in a chokehold outside a Brooklyn synagogue over the weekend, and a rabbi was hounded with abuse in Hallandale Beach, Florida.
The incident in Hallandale Beach was particularly alarming. After yelling “Jews should die”, an unidentified man later returned to that same location and dumped a bag of human feces right in front of a Jewish synagogue…
A man yelled antisemitic remarks at a rabbi in front of a South Florida synagogue, before returning and dumping a bag of human feces in front of the building.
Cellphone video captured the unidentified man as he shouted ‘Jews should die’ at a rabbi outside the Chabad of South Broward on Friday.
The man left and returned a short time later, carrying a bag that contained human feces, said Hallandale Beach Police Capt. RaShana Dabney-Donovan.
There is so much hatred for Jewish people out there right now, and the recent military conflict in the Middle East brought much of it to the surface.
In Brooklyn, a man named Ali Alaheri was arrested after he purposely set fire to a synagogue and a Jewish school…
A New York man was charged Saturday with setting fire to a synagogue and Jewish school in Brooklyn earlier in the week.
Ali Alaheri, 29, is accused of torching the Jewish center near Borough Park at around 4am on Wednesday.
The building suffered some damage before firefighters put the fire out.
I keep telling my readers that I have never seen more hate in America as I am seeing right now, and these are yet more examples that prove my point.
Sadly, the level of hatred is likely to go even higher as our society comes apart at the seams in the months and years ahead.
As our major cities devolve into lawless wastelands, what are you and your family going to do?
Do you plan to stick it out, hoping that things will eventually “return to normal”?
That will be the choice for a lot of people, and many of them will deeply regret going that route.
Others anticipate that they will just rely on their “survival skills” if things get crazy enough, but one new survey has found that most Americans are severely lacking in such skills…
Are you ready for life as a “Mountain Man” (or woman)? Apparently, the average American thinks they are, even if most can’t even start a fire! A new study finds the average American thinks they can survive for 16 days alone in the wilderness.
The survey of 2,000 people reveals Americans feel quite at ease with the idea of surviving in the wild. However, only 17 percent feel “very confident” in their ability to start a fire with flint. Moreover, just 14 percent feel the same about their ability to identify edible plants or berries in nature.
The truth is that most people don’t have any sort of a detailed plan for what is ahead, because most people still believe that everything is going to work out just fine somehow.
Meanwhile, our cities are becoming more lawless by the day, and the last 12 months have clearly demonstrated that it doesn’t take much to push the restless populations of those cities over the edge and into violence.
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I’m an eight-hour drive from the nearest shithole Democrat ran city. All the riots are a blip on the internet for me.
I am 1 hr away from a dem cesspool. Trust me from my lily white town the creep is on.
Is this what is intended for all urban areas?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_55e7NP60U
That is a crying shame, but like any addict, they are being enabled. Government is their enabler and all they have to do is vote for their enablers to get moar.
What the hell is going on in our country?
A government hell bent on full fledged socialism, so our “betters” can rule over all of us.
This is an eye opener, as well!
What I heard was a lot more government enabling. In my recent travels, I have seen hundreds of Help Wanted signs in almost every type of business. Just yesterday, FedEx held a job fir looking for 100 fork lift drivers with a starting pay of $21.50 and full benefits. That is almost $45,000/year, which is a decent living in the mid-south. Of course, a mom with 3 kids gets the equivalent of $60K/ year in benefits and does not have to do a single thing to contribute to society. I am tired of the moochers and the government that has enslaved them on the government plantation.
I executed my plan five years age when I moved to western North Carolina. We don’t have a whole lot of shopping but we have everything we need. No shortage of food, gasoline, paper products, &TC. Country life isn’t for everyone but it sure beats looking over yer shoulder 24/7 for the feral negroes tearing up the cities.
That cat has been out of the bag for at least the past decade. We know that that blacks are inoculated against any wrongdoing. It’s just too late to get any control in the urban areas. When it moves to the suburbs, and woke white progressives get their noses bloodied on a regular basis will any pushback occur. Satan is relentless, isn’t he?
My plan? Easy. Stay away from crowds… & cities. Oh, & be armed & aware of strangers.
yep ,yep and yep!!
My plan? Easy. Stay away from crowds… & cities. Oh, & be armed & aware of strangers.
By golly, that’s my plan too.
In Antifaland (Portland) crime, shootings, and murder are way up over the last year or two. Plus, the homeless crisis makes our downtown and city neighborhoods look like some futuristic dystopian movie set. Living in the burbs and not needing to venture into Portlandia very often, I’ve been able to watch from a safe distance as the city turn into the new Detroit.
But I’m worried being in the suburbs is not protection enough with the crime, hatred, and craziness getting worse. My gauge is to see how far the homeless camps have spread along the freeways. So far, the camps end at the Portland city limits. I suspect the suburban police have a bit more clear guidance from their elected officials to keep the trash from spilling out of Portland. But someday, maybe soon, left wings will be elected in the suburbs and the tsunami of shit will ooze out of the city to cover the entire metro area. I’m making plans to not be around when that happens.
I know what you mean, I lived in the Portland metro area for years but got the hell out. Far too many, however, fail to realize that it doesn’t matter where you go in Oregon, you are still in Portland. What I mean is, you are still dealing with the shit Portland is dealing with, including the costs. This is true with every city, town or suburb in every liberal state
Avoid feral negroes and you’ll be fine.
My plan is to join those feral Negroes (true Hebrews), praise Yah for destroying the Sister Of Babylon and avoid all Neanderthals, Revelation 2:9 people, and other assorted Gentile scum. And, be thankful I was born as a Negro…LMAO
Trolling…not even a poor kneegrow imitation…Kracka.
My plan is the same as always: avoid cities, avoid crowds, avoid “diversity.” Almost all people are fine, one on one, but get them in groups and there is nothing but trouble…
My plan started coming together 25 years ago when two of Memphrica’s urban youts stuck pistols in my face and robbed me.
1. Get out of the city
2. Get a carry permit
3. Build a place out in the country away from urban decay
4. Live my life
It has come together pretty well and we shall see how the next couple of years go.
I really don’t care about niggas killin niggas or rag heads killin joos, just don’t come out here and expect to get away with what you do in the hood.
That places is a shithole that looks unfriendly. I am always surprised when I have to drive through it.
I avoid the city as much as possible. Our doctors are in the city and we make appointments early in the AM while the ferals are still sleeping from the previous night’s activities. Most of the suburbs are not too bad with a police force on the lookout for urban youts coming to town, but the decay is slowing creeping towards them.
About 20 years ago, the family was on vacation headed to Nashville. We were traveling up the interstate through MS headed into Memphis for the night to see Graceland the next day. After crossing the state line, I turned around and headed back into MS to stay the night. I can just imagine what it looks like now…
check, check, check, and check! Yep, me too TN neighbor! (I’m in rural NE Georgia.)
We left DFW for extreme Western NC.
I live in a blue city, and in one month I had 3 homicides within two blocks of my apartment, which is located in what is considered a NICE part of town. Police have stopped enforcing a lot of laws, especially having to do with unlicensed food vendors now lining a beautiful lake (where they pulled a dead body out of recently.) There is a sense out there that you can get away with anything now, and why not? Cops will just stand there while firs are looted and stores get looted. People who think that this will stop just because Trump lost are morons. The bad guys are winning; why would they quit?
I think this is going on across the nation, ALL HOPE IS GONE!
Don,t be a downer SS. For now they are keeping it in the cities. Come to rural America they WILL get a different greeting. Bank on it.
Criminals are a minority, if there is Swift Justice for misdeeds. Law abiding g people will have to resort to vigilante justice or be a victim. There is no substitute for swift and harsh consequences for crimes. Sooner or later order must be restored. Then you can have law.
My immediate plan is to defend myself the best I can.
I am working on a home music studio and doing a bit of gardening.
Don,t forget cleaning the great equalizers. You might need them some day.
Not a fixable problem. Would it matter if Republicans ran the cities? Not enough to make a difference. Only way you can fix the cities is zero tolerance for crime. Only way you can fix the cities is to end social promotion in the schools. Only way you can fix the cities is to make public corruption the primary focus of law enforcement. Only way you can fix the cities is to take affirmative action completely out of any promotions (not necessarily hiring). Only way you can fix the cities is to abolish public employee unions. Do those things, our cities would be the greatest places to live.
Teachers Unions are Communist Covens
More “hanging judges” would probably help. Here in MN we have a lot of judges who go easy on criminals and set them free to commit more crimes. The lady judges (white or black) are generally worse about that, although there are libtard men judges, too. We need more prisons We have an under-incarceration problem.
The judges probably need to be hung first.
hanged. being hung is nice, but is of limited use on the street
Your list is too short by half, at least.
Wouldn’t matter one bit if the GOP ruled…they have, and it only offers a tap on the brakes at best.
The USA deserves its fate.
All downhill after the 19th Amendment.
16th and 17th was the turning point imho…the 19th had to happen.
My plan is to follow the plan I am following now. Only it’s a lifestyle, not a plan.
Speaking of which; now the lifestyle is demanding some extra time again. I probably won’t be very visible for a bit. Well, it happens on a pretty regular basis. See ya on the flip side.
I’m going out to pull clover from my yard to feed to rabbits.
That’s my plan.
First cartload raked.
Am enjoying cold water and another video that makes me celebrate pulling weeds from my lawn for bunny food (rather than using poison!)
We actually have a sort of ghetto near us… about five miles away on a secondary road there is what I called the mobile home graveyard for several years. A few clusters of trailers can be seen through the woods, barely, here and there with all sorts of old junk around them.
Well, people are living there and I don’t drive that way any more. I would never drive through any ghetto on purpose.
Meth lab heavens….in rural America we got the trailer trash meth heads. There’s a ghetto down the road from me, I doubt they’re cooking meth though. Lots of rural poor in the area, old people in run down houses and trailers and working poor.
Meth lab
Rural elderly poor
Ah… you have a discerning eye.
/s I’ll get you a few pictures of our meth lab/elderly poor around here.
My plan is to wear a hairhat out in public, and if I have to defend myself by shooting a thug, I pick up the shell casing(s) and walk away. A mile or two down the road, I ditch the hairhat and become bald again. When I get home, I shave off my beard then start mowing the lawn.
You’re going to have to purge the Judicial system of the corrupt liberal scum if you have any hope of solving the problem…or just arm up and try and keep your head down.
“What is your plan?”
Remain calm and reload.
I think you’re calling it a bit too soon, Michael:
“the homicide rate rose by 28% from the same period last year in 20 major cities across the country”
It’ll be serious when you can add a couple of zeroes to the percent. Until then, it’s pretty much BaU.
I can fix the gun violence problem in Chicago………we’re just going to have to violate a few civil rights.
we all know what group is responsible for this big increase in violent crime.when push comes to shove{survival} they will be targeted and wiped out .they cant hide and you know why.
Michael Snyder, the purveyor of doom porn rides again! Michael, Steve Quayle, Dave Hodges, and a few others, have been peddling the end of the world for more than a decade with the next catastrophe happening next week, I mean next month…in 6 months??
Ok, I’m being very sarcastic. I know the big SHTF event is not far off, of this I do believe. However, these guys have been saying things are imminent for a long, long time. Oh, I forgot Mac Slavo of SHTFPlan dot com.
There is such as thing as crying wolf too often, even in the SHTF community. But, they make their living off of either hawking gold and silver, or, click-bait articles to sell that ad revenue. And, yes, I’m in a crappy mood today! lol
My plan is simple. I will survive for as long as I can. I have a permanent campsite built in the woods behind my house that is inaccessible by car. I have chickens at the campsite, and a pond nearby with fish. A stove and portable toilet. Don’t want to live there permanently, but I can stay there for a few weeks if it ever came to that.
The most important preparation is to get mentally ready to witness BILLIONS of deaths if you manage to live for 10 more years. i hope you like anti-vax people because they will be the only ones left.
Everything happening now is manageable if you make simple adjustments to your lifestyle and location. Things will quickly become unmanageable for most people when the USD loses reserve currency status. Who knows when that will happen.
Never thought I would see the day when “Escape from L.A.” became a reality.
This is Austin
Not rural poor. And they have all the infrastructure and hand ups possible. Rural, not so much or none at all.
Seems like this was less of a problem when the po po could swing a baton or billy stick for vagrancy. Just sayin
This is all so sad. I visited Austin in the early 80s.
Is San Jacinto monument park there?
Top Ten Slums in America!
(Actually, it is misnamed… it is just ten cities with pretty bad slums. Cleveland, Atlanta, St. Louis, Philadelphia, Buffalo, Los Angelas, … a couple others I can’t remember. Interesting perspective on the issue from this guy.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDqk2AxvooI
Thank you for this, Ghost. With respect to Detroit ( and most likely the other cities) this is so true and I wasn’t surprised. I was born in Detroit proper. The house I lived in for the first 5 years of my life is now a plot of land, along with all but 2 houses on the block.
My plan is to watch it on YouTube from my luxury bug out in the sticks. Sleep late, read, watch some of my favorite movies and maybe write a novel. Ahh, the fresh air and fishing from my boat dock………it’s all so terrible, terrible I tell ya.
Right Wing Death Squads?
General Pinochet’ was right.
Move as far from the Big cities as your circumstances will allow. Eventually, after they trash the cities, they will become wandering gangs that will invade the hinterlands like ravenous swarms of insects. Find a nice, quiet desert Island like the one featured in ‘Castaway.’
I read “One Second After”… I know the Horde is coming.
mark does too…