The editor(s) at The Palm Beach Post finally woke up today.

The Sunday editorial today is titled, “Unacceptable rise in WPB homicides requires quicker action”. Better late than never. An excerpt:

It is deeply troubling to see murder again on the rise in West Palm Beach. This year, 24 homicides have been reported in the city as of Friday, the most of any year in The Palm Beach Post’s database, which goes back to 2009 — and it’s only early November.

What’s more “deeply troubling” is the editor just focuses on West Palm Beach. Riviera Beach, just next door, has 11 homicides so far this year. Out of 87 homicides in Palm Beach County thirty-five (35) were in WPB and Riviera Beach, 40% of the total number of murders.

In the cities of Lake Worth, Greenacres, and all of unincorporated Palm Beach County there have been twenty-three homicides thus far in 2017 (two in Greenacres and six in Lake Worth).

Check back later on for the breakdown of the numbers. The numbers this year about the homicide rate is “deeply troubling”. West Palm Beach and Riviera Beach have their own police departments. Greenacres, Lake Worth, and all of unincorporated Palm Beach County have PBSO.

It’s time for the editor and publisher of The Palm Beach Post to put aside their petty bickering with Sheriff Ric Bradshaw and focus on what’s more important: working together and saving lives.