Blame woke pols for the nation’s needless spike in murders

New FBI statistics show that our nation is suffering a historic surge in violent crime — one that was entirely predictable. From 2019 to 2020, the US murder rate rose by an astounding 27 percent, the largest annual increase in at least the past 100 years.

This spike is so far off the charts it’s hard to fathom. Even during the great surge of violence at the start of Prohibition, the murder rate never rose by more than 19 percent. Over the past three decades, the biggest prior increase was in 2015, the year after the Ferguson riots, when the murder rate rose 11 percent — less than half of the increase in 2020.

Responsibility falls squarely on the shoulders of woke politicians. Tragically, they ignored the warnings of law-enforcement officials and abandoned policies shown to work, replacing them with naïveté and wishful thinking. The results are now clear for all to see.

Most people are familiar with “broken windows” policing: If small crimes are ignored, big crimes will follow. When this approach was implemented, along with other improved policing techniques and good legislation, violent crime dropped steadily. This was the 1980s and 1990s response to the crime spikes of the late-1960s and 1970s, and it succeeded in cutting the nation’s murder rate by more than half over the next two decades. Crime and murder rates have skyrocketed the last few years.

Then, without serious thought, law-enforcement policies that saved our cities from violence and disorder — providing safety especially for poorer and minority communities — were abandoned. Big-city mayors turned against the police, effectively telling them to cease and desist. The FBI reports that nationwide arrests fell an incredible 25 percent in 2020 alone, neatly matching the 27 percent increase in the murder rate.

extending the debt limit, creating more government debt, monetized by the Federal Reserve - will just lead to more of the same.

Yes, there is a direct connection from government spending to progressive social engineering and political schemes.

I was ready to agree with everything until I saw who wrote it. Like he would’ve done anything!

Exactly. Do-nothing Republican "leaders" typically sat on their hands as national crime rates rose and as the stolen election took place before their very eyes.

The Democrat Party Cabal (DPC) determined in late 2019 that it would "save" the 2020 election (i.e., steal the election). The DPC (including RINOs) decided their New World Order would not survive another four years of President Trump. So the resolutely determined DPC went all-out to steal the 2020 election.

The DPC stole the election with an all-encompassing attack that included: Abruptly changing state election laws throughout the nation; enthusiastically defending and/or promoting the nationwide, violent Black Lives Matter/Antifa riots; pushing through uncontrolled and easily-manipulated mail-in voting; relentlessly accusing President Trump of being a "sexist," "homophobic," "racist xenophobe"; enabling voting after Election Day; the MSM spreading FUD across the U.S. in 2020 & 2021 (blaming President Trump for the FUD); etc. Even the Fox News' RINO "journalist" Chris Wallace constantly badgered President Trump throughout the Presidential debate (while senile puppet Sleepy Joe smirked, realizing the DPC would steal the election for him). And what did Republican "leaders" do while all this was going on? Nothing.

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