4/7/21: Did you know that as of today, 37 percent of the population of New York City is foreign-born?
Plus, the city has a
Democratic mayor.
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Maybe Democrats and immigrants aren’t the
problem.
We all remember how then-President Trump enjoyed talking about killers and rapists sneaking across the border, and Democratic mayors who failed to keep their cities safe. Never doubting a single syllable that escaped from our former president’s mouth, I had to assume people in New York City must be getting murdered at a phenomenal rate. The city had to be a veritable ghost town by now.
I was surprised. The city
suffered 289 murders
in 2018. (I use that figure, because in a story about the most dangerous
states, USA Today uses crime statistics from that year.)
Are Republican controlled places safer? I checked. Alaska had only 47 murders – proving that people who think Democrats fail the “law and order” test may not be able to perform simple division.
New York City has 8.7 million
people. That would mean your chances of being murdered by dangerous immigrant
gang members, or anyone else, would be 1 in 30,104. Alaskans would have to take
their chances at…1 in 15,557. Tennessee – about as red a state as you can find
– had 498 murders, for a rate of 1 in 13,829. Alabama, even redder, had 607
murders, or 1 per 8,108. In other words, immigrants might not be the problem,
nor the fact most cities are run by Democratic mayors.
Case in point: This weekend a customer at a Burger King in Memphis got mad when her order at the drive-thru window took too long. As Fox News explained, the irate woman stepped out of her car.
Burger King surveillance video
showed the woman pull out a black handgun from her car, lean into the
drive-thru window and open fire.
Luckily, none of the employees
were hit and the workers took off running through a backdoor, police said.
This is not to be confused with the shooting in Orlando last August, also at a Burger King, also due to a customer’s anger over a delayed order, in which one employee was killed. Nor do we mean the murder of another young drive-thru worker at a McDonalds in Elko, Nevada last November. Nor do we mean the incident in Milwaukee that month, where an irate customer broke the drive-thru window on purpose – only to have an employee at the Golden Arches come outside, pull a gun, and pistol whip the customer. Or the incident in October where an employee at a McDonalds in Kansas City, Mo., ended a dispute with a drive-thru customer by shooting and nearly killing him.
For “variety,” you have the Oklahoma City customer who became
upset when informed the McDonalds dine-in room was closed. She, too, “fired multiple
shots,” according to police. That assault last May left three workers bleeding
from various wounds, although none were life-threatening.
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A contract worth $628 million – and zero doses delivered.
SINCE THE TOPIC is danger, it turns out Emergent, the company tasked with making America’s coronavirus vaccines, has botched the job. So far, their factory in Baltimore has produced 150 million doses of vaccine which is good. Emergent has also been accused of violating safety and sanitation protocols and 15 million doses had to be destroyed. Which is not good. So far, not a single dose produced has been deemed safe enough to ship.
Definitely not good.
Emergent’s auditors reported last July that errors made at the factory “are not investigated to determine root cause, or are not investigated adequately.” Even worse, “Investigations are terminated without sufficient cause.” Mold was discovered repeatedly in one laboratory. The company conducted “essentially no investigation” and all workers did was wipe down the wheels of one cart.
Since Team Trump awarded the company a contract worth $628 million you might have thought officials would have been more diligent.
And, of course, President Trump might have asked for regular updates to ensure Emergent was doing its job.
But he
was too busy tweeting to care.
