Axios headline, April 12: “New data shows violent crime dropping sharply in major U.S. cities.”
That assertion, the article merrily stated, “puts a serious dent in one of the most frequently used lines of attack by former President Trump and his allies, who have sought to tie Democrats to the issue since 2020.” And it comes surely by coincidence as freshly anointed Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris gives herself a makeover as a hard ass on crime rather than the effusive “defund the police” candidate she ran as in 2020.
To be fair, the claim that the intense Democrat-inspired and -excused crime wave of the past four years has been on a steady downward slope isn’t exclusively about shoring up Harris. Such stories periodically popped up before.
CNN, June 10: “Violent crime is down and the US murder rate is plunging, FBI statistics show.”
NBC News, June 11: “New FBI stats show ‘historic’ declines in violent crime rate, with murder showing sharpest drop.”
That’s quickly becoming a talking point among Democrats hoping voters forget about the truth as they shove Harris in as president. White House press secretary and voodoo doll Karine Jeanne-Pierre repeated the “violent crime has plunged” claim twice this week.
For a number of reasons, it’s a lie, starting with what Axios admitted in its own report — that some states and cities, including the biggest one, New York, aren’t disclosing their violent crime numbers, or they fail to submit them to organizations like the FBI. It’s similar
