Americans Flee Crime-Ridden Cities

As violent crime in urban areas rises dramatically, Americans flee big cities for the suburbs. According to a Wall Street Journal analysis of United States Census data, more than 800,000 people fled the nation’s large metropolitan areas from June 2021 to June 2022. That is 25 percent less than the 1.2 million who fled large metropolitan areas the year before. Overall, 10 of the nation’s 25 largest cities experienced population loss, and most of the few cities that saw population gains were in conservative states.

Urban war zones: A groundbreaking study by John R. Lott of the Crime Prevention Research Center revealed that 2 percent of counties contain 31 percent of the population and 56 percent of the murders. And many people are anxious to get out of these urban war zones. New York City lost 0.8 percent of its people last year as violent crime increased by 25.8 percent. So Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg could better serve the citizens of his city by spending less time prosecuting Donald Trump and more time prosecuting criminals.

Prophesied curses: The Prophet Ezekiel foretold that one third of the modern-day descendants of ancient Israel would die from pestilence, one third would die in war, and the remaining third would be taken away captive (Ezekiel 5:12). Then he clarified that the pestilence would mainly affect city dwellers, while the warfare would mainly affect countryfolk (Ezekiel 7:15). These prophecies primarily apply to end-time America, Britain and Israel. The plague of violence currently affecting U.S. cities is prophetically significant.

Learn more: Read Ezekiel—The End-time Prophet, by Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry.