Deportation of Criminals Followed by Decline in Crime [semi-satire]

Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 18 May 2025 | John Semmens

[John Semmens]

Statistics for the first three months of the Trump Administration show a sharp decline in crime in several Colorado sanctuary cities. In Denver, homicides deceased by 58%. In Aurora they decreased by 36%. During this three month period, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested 538 illegal aliens from these cities.

Trump Administration "Border Czar" Tom Homan explained that "our focus on removing the worst of the foreign criminals preying on American citizens from these communities has significantly improved safety. This is a sharp contrast from the Biden Administration's soft-on-crime attitude that allowed millions of unvetted aliens to invade our country."

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston (D) called the drop in crime "a statistical fluke. There's no way that the lawless actions of ICE could have achieved what is claimed. None of the immigrants arrested were given due process before they were rounded up in surprise ICE raids. Several federal judges have ruled that these individuals cannot be deported or must be returned to the US if they have already been illegally removed."

Governor Jared Polis (D) insisted that "the gang members were awarded refugee status by the Biden Administration because they faced the risk of being murdered by rival gang members in their Venezuelan homeland. The idea that they could be sent back there by Trump sends shivers down my spine. I will work day and night to try to block the deportation of these individuals so they can have a chance to live and prosper in our country like the motto on our Statue of Liberty promises."

Aurora Police Chief Todd Chamberlin asserted that "the City of Aurora and Aurora PD are actually in a really good spot right now. Our crime numbers are down 22.8% overall. This seems like progress to me."

[No name given]

‘Deportation of Criminals Followed by Decline in Crime’

Correct.

[freebilly]

If you read the mainstream news, the drop in crime is the result of Colorado’s sanctuary policies which reduce crime wherever they’re employed. Idiots....

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

While a certain amount and type of crime is pretty much inevitable, people being what they are, there is a type of crime that is not.

And that is repeated, violent crime. Because you have to have something wrong with you to be the perpetrator of repeated violent crime. Thankfully such people are a small minority.

By locking up the people who are the perpetrators of repeated violent crime you reduce the chance of it happening currently and because you have shown a commitment to hunt down and punish people like that you have prevented future crime.

The underlying cause of crime is the conviction that you will get away with it. Remove that conviction and you have reduced the number of people who commit crimes.

At this point the amount of criminal activity has been reduced to a level that it can be dealt with easily.

[MikelTackNailer]

I look at these reports warily due to governments categorizing serious crimes as lesser crimes, dismissing lesser crimes altogether and failing to report crimes perpetrated in certain zones because they lack (or won’t apply) the manpower to do the job - because it makes the departments look bad.

This can be directly attributed to cities hiring chiefs from other areas - for PR using too much money - rather than promoting up from within the ranks. That puts politicians above policemen who protect “the image” more than the populace.