Racism, fed by lies about crime and “American Carnage,” are the incendiary core of Trump’s appeal to low-information white voters. Claims of exploding crime and Haitians eating pets are just Trump and Vance’s tropes for doubling down on energizing their racist base.
However, like all things Trump, the baseless assertion that we are experiencing an exploding wave of horrific crimes (with “vermin” migrants and inner city Blacks as the alleged perpetrators) is directly refuted by a just-released FBI report.
According to CNN,
Crime in the United States dropped throughout the first six months of 2024, according to preliminary figures released Monday by the FBI, continuing a trend in falling crime rates the bureau recently noted for 2023.
The new numbers show murders from January to June dropped 23% compared with the same period in 2023, while violent crime fell 10% and reported rapes decreased by 18%. Aggravated assaults during that period decreased 8% year over year, according to the data, while robberies fell 14% and reported property crime was down 13%.
Murders fell by 22.7 percent during this period.
The discredited claim by Trump that America is under siege by rampaging people of color is similar to Hitler’s claim that the Jews were responsible for all of Germany’s failings. In fact, Trump and Vance’s ceaseless demagoguery is similar to the odious anti-semitic accusations of “Blood libel” against the Jews.
The Harris-Walz campaign should be shouting to the rooftops about how the Biden-Harris administration has brought down crime not only in the first six months of this year, but also presided over a drop in crime for the full year of 2023:
The latest preliminary snapshot of falling crime rates in 2024 comes a week after the FBI issued a more fulsome report outlining its finalized numbers for 2023, which showed a drop in crime last year across numerous categories.
The 2023 report, which included figures from every major city in the nation, showed a dramatic 12% drop in murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, as well as a 3% fall in violent crime.
So take the credit Vice President Harris, and watch Trump eat his MAGA hat.
