Ten consecutive days passed in Houston without a single homicide report, and police said they can’t remember a longer lull in violent crime.
The Houston Police Department said there wasn't a single murder reported in the city from October 10-20.
“The murder rate is nearly impossible to control or predict in any city,” said HPD Chief Harold Hurtt.
Hurtt said HPD’s veteran homicide investigators can’t recall a single week in the last 10 years without a murder.
“We welcome this lull in violent crime, due –perhaps—to an increased focus of police resources to hot spots throughout the city,” Hurtt said.
Year-to-date, there have been 233 murders reported in the city, compared to 242 during the same time period last year – a 4.13 percent decrease.
I wonder if there could be another explanation. Maybe all those concealed carry guys are finally making a difference. What do you think? Maybe in a state famous for its death penalty record. they're finally seeing the benefits of deterrence. What do you think?
What I really think is Houston is a big a cesspool as Chicago and Newark when it comes to gun crime and the cops are having a weird reprieve. The only difference between the gun violence here in Houston and that of Chicago or Newark is the guns are mainly bought locally. You don't think there's an iron pipeline coming from the North-East down to Texas, do you?
What's your opinion? Could there be yet another explanation?
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Katrina refugees moving back to the Big Easy? New Orleans is an easier place to be a criminal than Texas. Texans tend to take law and order seriously, whereas the NOPD is notorious for being on the take.
ReplyDeleteWhoopsy, you broke the charm.
ReplyDeleteHomicide detectives are investigating the death of a young woman whose body was found in the backyard of an empty house near downtown Houston Wednesday morning.
Not sure how many bodies may turn up in other locations which could ruin this "lucky streak".
This could just mean that no one is popping anyone else. You could have mad stranglers out there.
Or better yet, Ninjas who find people carrying concealed handguns. Then the ninjas kill and disarm the concealed carry types. They then dump the bodies in vacant lots to be found at a later date.
Really, you have to be quite mad to try to rob or break into someone's house in Texas. Almost everyone has firearms, democrats, republicans, liberals, conservatives, doesn't matter here. If they don't have a conceal and carry permit and a hand gun, they at least have a rifle. Maybe the thugs found something better to do this week, than walk into a death trap LOL
ReplyDeleteI do wonder how many stabbings they have in a typical week though. Knives are a heck of a lot cheaper than guns, and they sell them in a lot more places XD
I remember an article just a few months ago about Chicago going one entire weekend without a murder.
ReplyDeleteThat was headline news.
The fact that my town has had zero murders in the eleven years I've lived here, and that there are more guns in my town than people somehow flew under the media's radar.
"What I really think is Houston is a big a cesspool as Chicago and Newark when it comes to gun crime and the cops are having a weird reprieve. The only difference between the gun violence here in Houston and that of Chicago or Newark is the guns are mainly bought locally. You don't think there's an iron pipeline coming from the North-East down to Texas, do you?"
ReplyDeleteI think you nailed it. Whether or not the guns are bought illegally and locally or smuggled in and bought illegally, it does not matter. The cesspool is full of violent criminals, independent of a source for their tools.
"Ten consecutive days passed in Houston without a single homicide report..."
ReplyDeleteMakes sense. The gun show was in town last weekend. More guns, less crime.
I'm sure when gun show season ends and the weather get warmer, the beasties will come out of hibernation and start shooting up the place again.