With the Democrats in power, the crime rate across America have shot up to a level where many cities no longer feel safe – and they’re blatantly lying about it.
Americans are feeling the discomfort, with a majority rightfully believing crime is up throughout the country, while the Democrats’ allies in media are attempting to gaslight these Americans into believing that they’re wrong for being concerned over the rise in crime.
According to a Gallup poll, roughly 56% of adults reported an increase in crime where they live and 78% believe that crime has risen in the nation as a whole, marking the worst sentiment about public safety in three decades.
MSNBC opinion columnist Hayes Brown wrote in an analysis that the Gallup poll shows the “disconnect between the perception of increased crime in an area and whether that purported increase can accurately be measured,” adding that Republican efforts to “frame cities as liberal-created hellscapes” may have shaped sentiment.
The leftist goes on to claim that being worried about high-crime is “only slightly less dangerous” than denying the results of the 2020 election.
“This is an only slightly less dangerous version of former President Donald Trump’s election denialism cycle in 2020: Say that there’s a problem without real evidence, then use the fact that people think there is a problem as proof that a problem exists,” Hayes wrote. “Republicans have invested a lot of time and money into priming the country to believe that Democrats have heralded in a new era of lawlessness and only the GOP’s mass incarceration plans can keep people safe. Gallup’s poll shows Republicans are getting a very solid return on that investment.”
Despite the left’s best efforts to deny the existence of the crime surge, it’s impossible to ignore the clear uptick.
According to data assembled by WalletHub, cities such as New Orleans, Detroit, Albuquerque, and Colorado Springs saw increases in their homicide rate per capita between the third quarter of 2021 and the third quarter of 2022.
Twelve of the major American cities which set new homicide records last year were also run by Democrats – no wonder they want you to think the problem doesn’t exist.
University of Pennsylvania criminology professor Richard Berk suggests that the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement and the anti-police rhetoric that came with it could be behind a large percentage of the rise in violent crime across the country.
He notes that because of this, “Some moderation in the use of force could result from well-meaning responses to past excesses, while some police officers might simply choose to abstain from any encounters for which they might be later criticized, fired, sued, or criminally charged,”
“Whatever the truth behind such conjectures, one consequence might be to embolden individuals already inclined toward violence; public criticism of the police might be seen as delivering the proverbial get-out-of-jail-free card.”
