Detroit Police Chief James Craig attributes part of 37% drop in armed robbery to armed homeowners making life a little too, er, “brisk” for the city’s thugs:
Detroit has experienced 37 percent fewer robberies in 2014 than during the same period last year, 22 percent fewer break-ins of businesses and homes, and 30 percent fewer carjackings. Craig attributed the drop to better police work and criminals being reluctant to prey on citizens who may be carrying guns.
“Criminals are getting the message that good Detroiters are armed and will use that weapon,” said Craig, who has repeatedly said he believes armed citizens deter crime. “I don’t want to take away from the good work our investigators are doing, but I think part of the drop in crime, and robberies in particular, is because criminals are thinking twice that citizens could be armed.
“I can’t say what specific percentage is caused by this, but there’s no question in my mind it has had an effect,” Craig said.
Even more notably? It’s been two months since the last major home-defense incident, the last of a flurry of such incidents in which criminals scampered away from law-abiding homeowners who engaged them.
Sometimes the criminals got hurt. Other times, merely humiliated – sometimes on camera:
It may not be the acme of Christian charity, but watching homeowners humiliate punks at gunpoint warms my heart.
Anyway – urban police chiefs tend to be toadies, on a policy level, to the liberal Democrats who appoint them. It’s good to see Craig breaking that particular noxious mold.
Sniff. I love a story with a happy ending!
I’m thinking that the Torah allows lethal self-defense, and Christ did indeed tell His disciples to have a sword. Not to use willy-nilly, but I don’t know that “turn the other cheek” means “let your family get injured, raped, or killed”.
“We no longer have the patience”……….love that assertion !!
Police Chief Craig was our man down here in Cincinnati before he went back home (I think??) to Detroit. Very sorry to see him go – although he did not seem quite as outspoken an advocate for armed self-defense at the time. Maybe going to Detroit will sway your opinion a little ………
There is something liberating about being in an apparently unwinnable situation. It separates the brave from the cowards; the weak curl up and join the crowd of whiners that they should be leading. The bold take risks and gamble against the odds. I believe Chief Craig is there. I wonder how he’ll fare at the IACP convention in Orlando this fall?
“It may not be the acme of Christian charity, but watching homeowners humiliate punks at gunpoint warms my heart.”
Hell, that makes my heart burst with pride!