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Moscow Marge.
Trump’s talk of “American carnage” fed by migrants and liberal prosecutors doesn’t match stats that show homicides falling in most cities.
Bad news for Republicans: violent crime is down across most of the US.
Donald Trump and far right media want people to believe there is a massive crime wave sparked by hordes of bloodthirsty migrants charging in waves across the southern border. In fact, the spike in crime which began with Trump's botched response to the COVID-19 pandemic is over.
To hear the latest version of Donald Trump’s “American carnage” narrative of a country lost without him, you would think law-abiding citizens are cowering in their homes or stockpiling weapons to deal with a massive crime wave that’s due to illegal border crossings caused by various nations emptying their prisons and by leftist “Soros-funded” prosecutors gleefully opening our own penitentiaries. The idea of an ongoing crime wave is incorporated into all sorts of MAGA rhetoric, including claims that prosecutors pursuing cases against Trump in New York, Atlanta, Florida, and Washington, D.C., should instead be frantically trying and jailing predators who are cavorting on the streets. The alleged threat of murderous “animals” who entered the country illegally has been crystalized by Republican agitprop about the tragic death of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, who was murdered while jogging, allegedly by an undocumented Venezuelan migrant. But graphic, horrifying anecdotal evidence does not an actual crime wave make. And the more we learn about what’s actually happening in our major cities, the clearer it is that the surge in violent crime that did occur during the COVID-19 pandemic continues to subside. The COVID crime surge largely ended in 2022. Then the incidence of murder and other violent crimes dropped significantly in 2023, according to preliminary federal data, as CNN recently reported:
Fact check: Trump falsely claims US crime stats are only going up. Most went down last year, including massive drop in murder
To the degree that migrants are involved in criminal activity can now be attributed to Trump's blockage of border security legislation in the House by his spineless minions on Capitol Hill.
Bipartisan border deal hits legislative wall as Republicans say they will block bill
Republicans are now officially the owners of border chaos – not the solution to it.
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[W]hen a long upward trend in crime during the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s — a true crime wave — finally came to an end, then dramatically reversed. The current numbers are beginning to show that we’re more than likely in a long period of stable (and, by past standards, relatively low) crime rates that were briefly interrupted by the many dislocations the pandemic caused in American life (and police effectiveness). So the myth of a deadly threat to Americans stemming from liberal policies on the border and in the justice system is mostly just that. Perceptions of public safety, of course, aren’t always in line with objective reality, and violent crime is horrifying even if it’s not as prevalent as law-and-order demagogues suggest. An October 2023 Gallup survey that coincided with growing evidence of dropping crime rates showed 77 percent of Americans agreed there was “more crime” in the country than in the previous year.
Spectacular crime stories are always going to grab headlines. If it bleeds, it leads has been one of the mainstays of American journalism for centuries. You'll never see a headline in the NY Post like Murder Rate Plummets!.
One thing that is often overlooked is that the "long upward trend in crime during the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s" mentioned in the article came to an end in the 1990s during the Clinton administration.
For ideological reasons, Democrats have been too restrained about publicizing their own law and order successes. As with the 1990s, another drop in crime is taking place under a Democratic administration – despite GOP attempts to exploit individual incidents of crime.
Donald Trump himself is a "one man crime wave".
When Peter got back to the dorm room, he was met with an angry James.
“Want to explain to me why I saw you and Barty together on the map?” James asked. “He’s a death eater, Peter!”
Peter sighed. Someone was bound to find out about them, but why did it have to be James.
“I don’t know, James. It just…” Peter thought for a moment.
James huffed, “Just what, Peter?”
“James, why were you looking for me on the map anyways?”
A look of shock flashed across James’s face. “I wasn’t looking for you.”
“Then who were you looking for?” Peter asked.
He didn’t say anything, but Peter had a strong suspicion that it was Regulus.
“You don’t get to say anything about Barty when you turn around and start making heart eyes at Regulus,” Peter said.
James was giving him a death glare, “You of all people know we aren’t together anymore.”
“Yes, but it doesn’t matter if you still like him.” Peter turned around and left the dorm.
After they all graduated and Barty got the Dark Mark, Peter got it as well to always be with the one he loved.
You can thank copeing-through-marauders for this idea.
We desperately need better gun control laws. Countries with stricter gun control laws (such as Britain, Germany, Japan, and Australia) have murder rates (any method) that are multiple times lower than in the United States. CLICK ON THE LINK TO READ THE FULL PIECE.
Too many people die needlessly every single day in the United States from gun violence.
Crime Stats
St Louis, Missouri, holds the unenviable record of the highest murder rate in America, ahead of Baltimore, Chicago and Detroit for the sixth year running. But despite 262 killings in 2020 - more than twice as many as London in a city with the population of Brighton - residents have just voted in a new mayor promising to defund the police and close the city’s most notorious prison. Tishaura Jones, a Harvard-educated single mother, who once filed for bankruptcy and whose father spent time in jail, is part of a growing progressive wing of the Democratic party making gains under US president Joe Biden. The city’s first black female mayor told The Telegraph: “St Louis needs a lot of help,” and has targeted the police. “We still have two separate police unions - one for black police officers and one for white officers. “If they can’t trust each other, then how can they expect the public to trust them?”
Not true. Since cities have started defunding police, shootings have soared. Cities are now setting records for murders by guns, in broad daylight, and at night.
The anti-Police movement has only emboldened the criminals.
Anyone has the sources on the trans murder rate of 2019 vs women murder rate of 2019 ? Need to prove a point.
Cities with the Highest Homicide Rates, 2018
With 20.7 murders per 100,000 residents, Chicago's homicide rate placed it 12th among large cities in 2018, a decline from 2017 when the city was ranked ninth.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program
