ANALYSIS – No, it's not conservative propaganda, crime really is on the rise in urban areas throughout the country. And Joe Biden, the Democrats and the liberal media are covering it up.
This is why law and order will play a major role come November.
In his recent State of the Union address, Biden said, “To state the obvious, all Americans deserve the freedom to be safe.”
This one of the few things Biden said that was true, and most Americans should agree on. And this could cause him serious problems in the coming election.
This is also why Donald Trump, and the GOP, should and will be pushing that true narrative to the hilt.
As Jeffery Andersen, the director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics at the U.S. Department of Justice from 2017 to 2021, explained in U.K.'s The Telegraph recently:
NBC News recently asserted that “Americans believe crime rates are worsening, but they are mistaken.” It's actually NBC and Biden who are mistaken, as the best crime stats show a marked increase in crime in recent years – largely driven by crime spikes in urban areas.
And why did this happen? Well, simply put, far left Democrats got their way. Andersen continued:
In 2020 – the summer of Covid-19 lockdowns, George Floyd, and Black Lives Matter protests – Left-leaning organisations and politicians profoundly de-emphasised the importance of law enforcement. They clamored to “defund the police,” said we should stop enforcing “minor” crimes in the name of racial “equity,” and pushed to get lenient prosecutors elected, especially in major cities controlled by progressive prosecutors. Their rash experiment in encouraging lawlessness has played out in real time.
According to the NCVS, violent crime rose from 5.8 million violent victimisations in 2019 to 6.6 million in 2022 (the most recent year for which statistics are available), an increase of 800,000 violent victimisations and 14 per cent. Excluding simple assault – the least serious violent crime category and the one least likely to be prosecuted as a felony – the increase was notably worse: 37 per cent.
Please note that the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), run by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, is the most reliable source of national crime in the U.S.
This is especially true now since the FBI's crime statistics, which used to cover almost the entire country, no longer include police forces in about one-sixth of all US towns or cities, including mega-cities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York.
And major American cities are where that violent crime has skyrocketed. The rate of violent crime per 1,000 rose from 21.1 in 2019 to 33.4 in 2022 – a massive 58% jump.
Andersen added: “Excluding simple assault, the rate of violent victimisations in urban areas rose by a whopping 73 per cent over that span.”He continued:
In other words, American cities are profoundly less safe than they were just a few years ago. What's more, the reason for this change is quite clear. Not only has lax law enforcement encouraged more violent crimes, it has facilitated a decline in civilised norms. Many of America's major urban centers are now replete with tent cities, drug addicts, shoplifting and subsequent store closures, the pervasive smell of marijuana, and a general sense of foreboding.
These are the real facts. And like raging inflation, Biden and his media surrogates can't keep hiding this truth from most Americans.
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions of American Liberty News.
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