Fox News Viewers Get A Dose Of Reality As Guest Informs Them Of Murder Rate Under Trump

It’s an election yr, and so “crime” is being hyped by Republicans, however over on Fox Information viewers heard one thing that in all probability stunned them: “The very best soar within the homicide price on this nation occurred within the final yr of the Trump administration. It didn’t occur in any of the Biden years.”

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“Hear, the president had all main police chiefs to the White Home simply final month. Violent crime is throughout the  board, down in most main cities. And that’s one thing we have to speak about, definitely as Democrats. The very best soar within the murder price, the homicide price on this nation, yearly, occurred within the final yr of the Trump administration. It didn’t occur in any of the Biden years over these final three years.

So once more, the president is operating on his document. Donald Trump is now could be a distinct scenario than 2016 has a document he’s acquired to defend as properly.”

It’s true that Trump isn’t in the identical scenario as he was in 2016, when “give him an opportunity” was a speaking level plea. Now, Trump has a document to defend.

President Biden had a gathering with police chiefs from main cities in February, throughout which they celebrated the big drops in crime charges throughout the nation.

Biden pointed to the American Rescue Plan, which was supported with solely votes from Democrats, as an necessary assist to cities in the course of the pandemic. I’d additionally level out that this included a change in policing to incorporate extra psychological well being and youth intervention packages. Republicans prefer to level at Chicago and Detroit as examples of excessive crime cities, so it’s notable that Detroit noticed an 18% drop in homicides in 2023, whereas Chicago noticed a 13% drop in homicides.

“Final yr, the US had one of many lowest charges of all violent crime in additional than 50 years,” the Democratic President advised police officers in that assembly.

Individually, in 2021, Biden’s Division of Justice instituted a violent crime reduction strategy. These are deliberate insurance policies Biden enacted, and thus can take credit score for.

In 2023, Reuters reported, “Violent crimes together with homicide and rape declined in the US in 2022 from a yr earlier, however property crimes rose throughout the identical interval… Though violent crime is trending downward, the 21,156 murders reported in 2022 are additionally properly above pre-pandemic ranges, in line with FBI information. The variety of annual reported murders by no means topped 18,000 in the course of the 2010s, however jumped to 21,570 in 2020.”

So that top of 21,570 for homicide occurred in Trump’s final yr as president, which was additionally the primary yr of the pandemic. The numbers have dropped since with a 12% decline in homicides from 2022 to 2023.

Is it honest to saddle Trump with the pandemic numbers? Honest doesn’t play a big position in politics, however the fact is we don’t know the way these numbers may need modified underneath a distinct administration, one which had dealt with the pandemic from the start with competence. Trump merely tried to gaslight his method out of the pandemic and by the point they found out that it was actual and it was an issue, it was too late.

So whereas it’s not utterly honest to assign the excessive homicide price to Trump, it’s additionally evident that his dealing with of the pandemic was disastrous for the nation and little question that did affect the homicide charges.

Violent crime has largely been taking place for many years, for the reason that first time period of President Invoice Clinton’s administration, with a 2020 pandemic or Trump bump.

Traditionally, People belief Republicans extra on crime, which makes this clip much more fascinating and raises the query, if laws handed by solely Democrats helped main cities cut back murder charges, is it correct to proceed the notion that Republicans are “higher” on violent crime than Democrats?

Maybe the actual challenge is the racial canine whistles being communicated to the Republican base somewhat than the details, which could clarify why this Fox panel instantly pivoted to “cartels” bringing medicine throughout the border after being confronted with details that challenged their biases and beliefs. Sure, they pivoted to the border, which Republicans have refused to fund correctly in an effort to wound President Biden politically.

Irrespective of how honest or unfair it’s, Donald Trump has to defend his document identical to each different politician and he ought to be held accountable for his failures in addition to any successes he may need had.

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