rdquinn posted: " According to the FBI's annual crime report, homicides fell by a little more than 6% nationally between 2021 and 2022 but remained 25% above the 2019 level. Meanwhile carjackings and other property crimes have risen. In the nation's capital, where murder" QUINNSCOMMENTARY
According to the FBI's annual crime report, homicides fell by a little more than 6% nationally between 2021 and 2022 but remained 25% above the 2019 level. Meanwhile carjackings and other property crimes have risen. In the nation's capital, where murders are up 38% this year, the lone major supermarket in one of Washington's poorest neighborhoods may be forced to close due to the increase in theft.
In California, where smash-and-grab robberies have become commonplace, the latest crime trend involves using stolen cars to ram through a storefront and then loot the establishment. "Statistics aren't compiled for ram-raiding cases," the Journal reported this week, "but local and federal law-enforcement officials say they have seen a sharp uptick since the Covid-19 pandemic amid an overall rise in property crime."
As with the economy, there is a disconnect between the statistics that the administration brandishes and the everyday experience of Americans. A decline in average crime levels is cold comfort to the person who still hears nightly gunfire, whose local drugstore puts every item under lock and key, or whose only source of fresh produce went out of business because leftist prosecutors decriminalized shoplifting.
By Jason L. Riley 11/21/23 The Wall Street Journal
I know, the President gets the blame. In this case it's about Biden, but no matter who is in office, the buck stops at the president.
That's because we like to blame something or someone else for everything that goes wrong. Maybe it's "the system" or perhaps the wealthy.
The fact is in the above examples it's the people who live in these areas, the families - or lack thereof - the local politicians, the local society.
But hey, it's far easier to blame whomever is far away in Washington … or do we actually want the federal government to run the states and cities?
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