Summer of Murder, Mayhem, and Madness

The Castle Report

Darrell Castle talks about the summer of murder, mayhem and madness that is currently occuring in the Democrat cities of America. Transcription / Notes SUMMER OF MURDER, MAYHEM, AND MADNESS Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Today is Friday the 7th day of August 2020 and that means that this week I just passed my tenth anniversary of doing the Castle Report. Ten years and more than 800 Reports later I am still doing them each week. This week the Castle Family is doing fine with no positive tests for the virus. The family daughter remains on her small island and is pretty good now at opening coconuts with a machete Here in the USA I am now headed toward my 72nd birthday which will occur in October or about 2 and ½ months from now. I mention my age only for the purpose of emphasizing how precious each moment of life is. This is one of the summers that I have been allotted by God to have and it has been lost, taken from me by the virus, by the response to the virus, and by the summer of madness, created for the most part by politicians and their cohorts. Reality, however, is not always what I would like it to be, but in any case, I must deal with it as it is, not as I would like it to be. The summer of love as Seattle mayor Jenny Durkin described, it looks a lot like the summer of murder and mayhem. The murder rate in America’s cities has skyrocketed since Democrat Mayors declared the summer of love and set about abolishing or defunding their police departments. It all makes me nostalgic for the good old days of March and April when all we had to worry about was dying from the virus. The defund the police movement apparently doesn’t sit well with the average American, but murderers, carjackers, and street thugs seem quite enamored with it. Politicians who lead movements to defund or abolish the police apparently know nothing of human nature, and they seem to have trouble understanding that without police we are all nothing but a locked and loaded mob fighting for survival. In Chicago, Mayor Lori Lightfoot again blamed the increased murder rate on guns from non-gun law states as if the street thugs and lack of law enforcement have nothing to do with it. I don’t want to hammer Chicago too badly this week since I do it each week, but its hard when a city has 107 murders in a single month and the mayor just shrugs and says , well its not my fault, its all those guns. It’s more than murder though mayor, it’s also carjackings, street robberies, and armed assaults all soaring. New York City just cut one billion dollars from the police budget thanks to Mayor De Blasio, and for June gun violence was up 130%. The number of shootings rose in every borough, and the number of people murdered rose by 30% citywide. Burglaries were up 118% and auto thefts were up 51% so all types of criminals are on the defund movement train. I wonder if the victims of De Blasio’s defund movement will get any of the billion dollars, he cut from the police budget, probably not. In the once great progressive city of Minneapolis, we find ground zero of the defund movement. The city council just voted 12-0 to completely abolish the police force. Minneapolis crime numbers are climbing to get into the New York and Chicago status. Homicides, street robberies and assaults, and carjackings are all soaring in numbers. Only 15% of Americans polled said they favor defunding the police but unfortunately those people don’t run any of our Democrat cities. Who cares what taxpaying citizens want when you have a woke army in charge? In the third precinct of Minneapolis where most of the violence occurred, more than 100 robberies and 20 carjackings were reported to the police in the last month and the police spokesman had a very helpful suggestion for the residents of his city. Prepare to be robbed and carjacked he said, and prepare to lose your cellphone and purse so don’t carry much money. That’s the Minneapolis, progressive way I guess,