Preventable Murders We Enabled

The New York Times reports murder rates rose in a quarter of the nation's 100 largest cities. The worst offenders, in terms of rate growth, were these:

Cleveland
Milwaukee
Baltimore
Chicago
Houston
Nashville
Washington

NYT, reluctantly I suppose, adds:

Nationwide, nearly 6,700 homicides were reported in the 100 largest cities in 2015, about 950 more than the year before. About half of the rise — 480 of the 950 — occurred in seven cities.

Rising crime might be linked to less aggressive policing that resulted from protests of high-profile police killings of African-Americans.

"Might?" Does anybody with common sense not believe the observed increase is attributable to the Ferguson Effect, Black Lives Matter, and the consequent drop-off in profiling and proactive policing?

If you like irony, most of those being murdered - and doing the murdering - were from the very population complaining about "police brutality."