<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>felistoria</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think it has to do with defunding the police at all. I do think is has to do with removing the ability of the police to make arrests or when they do the person is just released. In Portland, when they arrest someone, the DA just releases them.
About a month ago the female owner of a coffee shop was blasted out of no where with an uppercut by a homeless guy. The dude was arrested and let out in less than 24 hours. How do you let someone violent like that just roam the streets? The only way the actually put someone away anymore is for murder. Stuff like this is definitely one factor as to why murder rates are up.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Murder rate rose by almost 30% in 2020 in the US</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/22/upshot/murder-rise-2020.html</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mywittyname</author><text>&amp;gt; Murder rose over 35 percent in cities with populations over 250,000 that reported full data.  It also rose over 40 percent in cities 100,000 to 250,000, and around 25 percent in cities under 25,000.&lt;p&gt;The difference has been noticeable in my city.  Murders within the city used to be kind of common, maybe two or so a month, but such crimes were non-existent in the suburbs.  Lots of overdoses, but never murders.  Now though, there are multiple murders per week within the city, and a few a month in some of the suburbs.&lt;p&gt;Scrolling through the local news is just painful.  City or suburbs, kids or adults, the news is full of people killed.  Stats back up that this is already the second deadliest year in the region, after last year.&lt;p&gt;And since this will come up.  It&amp;#x27;s a mildly blue city in a very, very red state.  We definitely did not defund the police, if anything, we upfunded them in response.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Murder rate rose by almost 30% in 2020 in the US</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/22/upshot/murder-rise-2020.html</url></story>