Biden Is Quietly Winning the War On Crime—After Trump Epically Lost It

https://newrepublic.com/article/181501/biden-quietly-winning-war-crimeafter-trump-epically-lost

29 comments

  1. He is quietly winning because the media won’t report it.

  2. Does the president really have any effect on crime? I thought crime was just a local issue? The report cited doesn’t actually give credit to Biden but to Congress.

    Also goes to show how things have changed, or not changed, from 2020 when we’re celebrating hiring more police and giving them more technology as “winning the war on crime” as this is suggesting.

  3. We had a story published locally that was highlighting how the crime rates have been dropping and the facebook posts for it were flooded with comments calling it fake.

  4. Another thing Trump will be given credit for next year. I kinda hate living in post-truth america TBH.

  6. >Donald Trump constantly claims that crime is out of control. In reality, it’s substantially down under Biden, after soaring during the pandemic that Trump catastrophically botched as president. Now the Democratic group Third Way is releasing a new study finding that this year, congressional Democrats secured substantially more funding for public safety projects across the country than Republicans did. We talked to Jim Kessler of Third Way, who explains how Democrats can go on offense on the issue and beat back Trump’s relentless lies about it.

  7. Sadly we aren’t just in a fake vibecession but also a fake vibewave. Conditions are great but normies would rather adopt a massive self victimization complex and drive the country off a cliff. And they won’t admit wrongdoing even after the fact, they’ll just blame ivory tower elites for being “smug” even though the elites were right the whole damn time. Sad how closed minded some people are

  8. That’s what happen when you do your job instead of watching tv ans playing golf

  10. It is easy for R candidates to make up “Crime!” as a boogeyman because the base automatically assume that they are magically better at it no matter the evidence. Ironically and not coincidentally, on this issue and fiscal responsibility and imagined moral high-ground in general, Republican leaders feel justified in ignoring useful crime bills as well as spending like crackwhores.

    Nobody gets better leaders by tolerating incompetence and evil in their own side. What are their voters going to do other than rubberstamp it all? And then justify it because they heard rumors about demoncrats on an edutainment news opinion show? Nevermind that even if Dems were demons, electing your own demons is still dumbass shit. Super sad.

  11. American public: But trump and tiktok continuously tell me crime is out of control so I’ll vote for the guy currently on criminal trial to help reduce crime that doesnt exist.

  12. Can’t make/keep a problem as part of your platform if the problem doesn’t exist.

    Republicans have been doing this for decades: don’t solve or exasperate a problem, then rail against it. It worked for them every time until they actually solved one of of their signature problems got solved: repealing *Roe*.

    They don’t want to solve problems (for citizens), they want all the fights they instigate to continue indefinitely.

  13. Well, it’s not like Trump knows how to obey the law.

  15. I will usually never defend Trump, but he was president during a very weird time in the world that no former president has been through.

  16. I wonder how much a super-pac paid to get this story written. The Supreme Court further legitimized theft by cop. I’m not sure how much anyone can fix USA without tackling the major cracks in its foundation. Major crime by banks goes unpunished. Corruption is legal due to citizens united. It’s easy to say anything when you cherry pick facts.

  17. >Quietly Winning the War On Crime

    And therein lies the rub, and probably why Biden is struggling so damn much in the polls. People, quite frankly, aren’t aware of what Biden has done and the media hasn’t exactly helped.

  19. This would be the first time in which crime has decreased while people have less money in their pockets

  20. Wow the propaganda machine is really working hard today- this could not be further from the truth.

  21. Crime is out of control in LA police just don’t respond or report it if it’s involving homeless. Never seen it this bad in LA been here my whole life I’m 40

  22. It’s not even a fair comparison. Trump was playing for team Crime all along.

  23. Now find this story somewhere that’s not a liberal rag

  26. Along with the typical Democrat play in being practically silent about it.

  29. If you want to win against crime, fight poverty.

    People with decent housing, access to good food, healthcare (including mental health), education, and a job that pays a living wage are far less likely to steal, rob, etc.

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