NYC: More Shootings This Year Than ALL of 2019

#BlackLivesMatter New York City Homicide Victims

There have been more shootings so far this year in New York City than in all of 2019.

A 24-year-old man who walked bleeding into Lincoln Hospital in The Bronx on Saturday night has pushed the city’s total number of shootings this year to 777 — topping the 776 recorded in all of last year, NYPD data compiled by The Post reveals.

And it’s only the first days of August, with five more months before the year is over.

“It only gets worse from here,” warned Joseph Giacalone, a retired NYPD sergeant and an adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

“As the shootings continue, so will retaliation. It’s a vicious cycle that the NYPD worked hard to mitigate, but that they are no longer able and in some cases willing to do.”

Source: NYC has had more shootings so far this year than in all of 2019

NW Film Center Has Canceled a Screening of “Kindergarten Cop”

It’s not a tumor, but it has been cut out like one.

Source: NW Film Center Has Canceled an Outdoor Screening of “Kindergarten Cop” Following Complaints by a Local Author – Willamette Week

Boeing to Deliver Nine Chinooks to US Army Spec Ops

Boeing has secured a $265m order to deliver an additional nine MH-47G Block II Chinook helicopters to the US Army Special Operations Aviation Command (USASOAC).

With the latest order, Boeing is now on contract to supply 24 MH-47G Chinooks. As agreed, Boeing will assemble the helicopters at its Philadelphia plant in the US.

Boeing vice-president and H-47 programme manager Andy Builta said: “The G-Model is a critical asset for the army, our nation, and the defence industrial base.

“We’re honoured that the army’s special operators trust us to deliver it.”

Source: Boeing to deliver nine Chinook helicopters to US Army Special Operations

400 New F-15EX Could Replace Strike Eagle Fleet

The Air Force may replace its 218 F-15Es with F-15EXs, which could expand the new program to over 400 aircraft, according to service documents justifying the sole-source contract to Boeing. The Air Force also claims buying the F-15EX will save some $3 billion in military construction and support costs versus buying more advanced F-35s.

The revelations and assertions were contained in an F-15EX Justification and Approval (J&A) document, which was dated March 2018 but not released until mid-July, to coincide with the sole-source award to Boeing of the first F-15EX contract. The program, as it’s currently structured, could be worth up to $22.9 billion if all options are exercised.

Source: F-15EX Could Replace Strike Eagle Fleet, in Addition to Older C/D Models, USAF Says – Air Force Magazine

Army Guard Reorganizes for  Fights with Russia and China

It’s notable how the Islamist threat has receded, and emphasis on “near peer” battle engagements has taken center stage.  The 2018 National Defense Strategy has changed all that.  It’s major advocate was SecDef General Mattis before resigning over the Syrian deployment.

WASHINGTON — The Army National Guard will move most of its brigades under the command of its eight division headquarters as it reorganizes its fighting formations to give the force more combat power and some soldiers new career opportunities, officials said.

The Guard move will mark a substantial increase in the number of fully manned divisions that the Army can deploy, as only the service’s 10 active-duty divisions are now filled out with subordinate units, said Lt. Gen. Daniel Hokanson, the director of the Army National Guard. The increase to 18 complete Army divisions comes at a time when service officials believe a major conflict with a near-peer rival — namely Russia or China — would require the employment of full divisions, he said.

“When you look at the [2018] National Defense Strategy and competition among near-peer competitors, peer competitors — that great power competition, there is a potential for large-scale combat operations … [and] it could actually be division level fights,” Hokanson said in an interview Thursday ahead of the Guard’s planned announcement Saturday. “We wanted to make sure that everything that the Army National Guard did was in support of the total Army and the NDS, and one issue was that our divisions are just headquarters they don’t have brigades under them.”

Source: Army Guard begins to reorganize force into eight divisions to prepare for possible fights with Russia and China – Stripes

15 Murders in July – Portland’s Deadliest Month in 3 Decades!

This is happening all across America.  Leftist Democratic Party Mayors are restricting the police forces after the George Floyd protests commenced months ago.  This is what happens when police pulls back – crime runs rampant, murder & mayhem the result.  It will get worse before it gets better, if it ever does. There is a chance that many of these communities go the way of Detroit.  Businesses and upper income taxpayers fleeing for safer climes – never to return. The city’s central core decimated, with no new investments on the horizon. Homelessness, drug addiction, murder, despair.  Welcome to the Democratic Party’s plan for America’s citys.

Portland police are scrambling to respond to 15 homicides in the city so far in July. That’s the most killings in one month in more than three decades, they said.

So far this year, 24 people have died in homicides in Portland.

The most recent killing was Tuesday night, a 34-year-old woman who was stabbed at a Northeast Portland residence after returning from a vigil in memory of 27-year-old Tyrell Penney, who was killed in a shooting Saturday night at Southeast Division Street and 158th Avenue.

Source: Portland police record highest number of death investigations in single month in more than three decades – oregonlive.com