Statement from President Joe Biden on Record Decrease in Violent Crime in 2024

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1. CNN: “Here’s why a record decrease in violent crimes is actually Terrible for Biden”

2. What’s the underlying cause for the decrease?

   I’m just guessing here, I presume that record employment rates mean people aren’t as desperate, but I’m not well informed on the subject.

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4. Trump ushered in a time of American carnage marked by social unrest, out of control covid deaths, and racial animosity culminating in him leading a violent attack on the capital and a disruption to our centuries long tradition of peaceful transition of power. Thank you Joe Biden for leading the country to better times and a brighter future and bringing America back from the abyss.

5. Conservatives: Biden is clearly a liar. The man guilty of fraud, rape, and on trial for treason told me so.

6. there’s a decrease in crime because they legalized crime. saw it on fox and friends.

7. People should remember this whenever they hear Trump lie about non-existent high crime in this country.

8. Violent crime has been overall trending downwards for years now. Conservatives just fully believe that the country and cities are turning into Mad Max/Fallout level hellscapes due to how disconnected they are from reality and the communities they criticize.

   I live in Providence, one of the safest cities in the country, and conservatives in the state that overwhelmingly live in the rural or rich communities and counties talk about the state and Providence like its full of marauders.

9. “Our exclusive report as to how this news is catastrophic for the Biden campaign”

10. Protests are not crime. Sometimes crime happens during protests and I think people equate protest = crime. I live in the Pacific Northwest and our cities are very safe and beautiful.

11. really? is america down to a mass shooting every OTHER day now or something?

12. Haters will say it’s fake news.

13. which herr fuhrer trump and flying monkeys conservatives like mtg will take credit for.

14. 1. I hope this continues but the summer is when most crime occurs

    2. I’m sure after (please god) Trump loses we’ll see a LOT of MAGA crimes

15. You ever notice that the right-wing attack ads against Biden all focus on how he’s too old? Not a single one of them attacks Biden for his policy, and that’s because… he’s been doing really well on policy. Everyone seems to like what he’s doing. So age is literally the ONLY issue that the right seems to have with him right now.

    Of course, what the right doesn’t get is that being old isn’t a problem. We don’t have a system of government that collapses as soon as our leader dies. If the president dies, guess what? That’s what the vice president is for.

    The problem is that the vice president is a black woman, and the right doesn’t want black women to have power. But they can’t just out-right say that, so they have to just pretend that we do have a system of government that collapses when the leader dies.

16. Two facts about crime in the US:

    * There has been a 30+ year downward trend in violent and property crime.
    * No one appears to actually know this.

    [https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/11/05/ahead-of-midterms-most-americans-say-crime-is-up-what-does-the-data-say](https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/11/05/ahead-of-midterms-most-americans-say-crime-is-up-what-does-the-data-say)

17. Violent crime is also [down 80% from the 1980s](https://usafacts.org/state-of-the-union/crime-justice/). There was a (in context) small bump since COVID, but overall things have improved massively.

    Don’t believe the news media, whose paychecks depend on continuously poking your limbic system.

18. For a lot of people crime is subjective. It’s like how a family member of mine once told me crime is rife now and it was so safe in the 70’s they never even locked their doors. Then you look at the stats and violent crime was actually twice as high back then then it is today.

    This is why Republicans can screech about crime, law and order and so on even though the stats show crime is being reduced. People just believe what they want to believe.

19. Renters can’t hide bodies.

20. Though great news, I hate that it will fall on deaf ears with the other side. I live in a rural county in a blue state. Any crime occurs and it’s all “look at Democrat rule!” because all they see is their biases

21. Decrease in crime, actually – or decrease in *reports* of crime?

22. It’s part of a 30 year trend: https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/explorer/crime/crime-trend

23. I was assured by experts this would be impossible after Bruen.

24. Cries in Memphis

25. Nobody in any major city believes crime is down. These cities have basically stopped prosecuting a whole host of felonys and are cheering the corresponding “drop in crime.” Meanwhile the suburbs are reporting record crime surpassing the mid 90s. Philadelphia suburbs are a shit show right now, follow home home invasions, organized retail flash robberies, carjackings at whole foods. If Democrats run on this they’ll get hammered.

26. Now he needs to stop violent crime in israel that he is funding

27. But haven’t you heard about the shoplifting?!? All these stores have stores inside the stores or they closed… everybody panic!!!!