Even though the Republican party right now is filled with people who have either been
indicted and are awaiting their criminal trial, or it's got people who are currently experiencing a
criminal trial in Manhattan of all places, but the Republican party is filled with a lot of
people who are potentially going to be convicted criminals in the near future. And it's funny
because this is the party that tells us every day that America is overridden with crime. You know,
you can't walk into any of these cities, whether it's New York City or LA or San
Francisco or Chicago. If you go there, you're gonna be shot or you're gonna be, you know,
assaulted. You're gonna have your car broken into. Because crime according to Republicans is rampant.
Fox News talks about it all the time. newsmax, Republican politicians, Florida Governor Ron
DeSantis was out there this week, you know, making up elaborate hoaxes about crime in New York.
Trump outside of his criminal trial, has talked to reporters and said, there's crime all around
and they're prosecuting me, but they're not prosecuting all these other people. To hear
Republicans tell the story, there's a good chance that everybody is gonna end up murdered before
the end of the day. But luckily that is just a story because according to the latest round of
statistics from the FBI itself, crime in America has actually been plummeting for the last two
years, both in 2022 and 2023, crime rates across the country, including murders dropped. Now what
happened was that we had a spike in violent crimes that took place during the pandemic starting in
2020 and bleeding over into 2021. Once that kind of died down, crime also died down. So for 2022,
violent crime decreased by 1.7% and there were 6.7% fewer murders. Now,
data for the year 2023 is not yet complete, but what we do have are quarterly numbers.
So preliminary 2023 FBI data in predicting the final numbers for the year, uh,
show basically a considerable drop. The third quarter FBI data showed murders dropping in
estimated 15.6% compared with the same period in 2022. And violent crime dropping 8.2% overall,
the fourth quarter, 2023 report released in March shows an estimated 4% drop in property crime,
6% drop in violent crime and 13% decrease in murders from 2022. So crime is going down across
the country. Doesn't matter if it's murder, doesn't matter if it's other violent crimes,
doesn't matter if it's property crime, it's all going down. So that would seem to indicate that
we are on the right track as a country, right? I mean, anytime bad things get fewer, that's
Good. But Republicans can only run elections based on fear. Whether it's the fear of people
coming across the border, those people coming across the border, taking your job,
maybe killing you, who knows? They've suggested that, whether it's the fear of the people on
welfare like back from the eighties, whether it's the fear of terrorists, whether it's the
fear of traditional marriage going down the drains, if we let gay people get married,
there's always that fear. For the last 40 years, Republican presidential campaigns have been based
on fear and what they're trying to do, they did it in 2022 in the midterms and they're trying to
do it this year, is run on the fear that you're either gonna get robbed or murdered walking down
the street. But the statistics do not back them up. The statistics never back up what
Republicans say, but that's never stopped him in the past, and it's not gonna stop 'em now,
but when you hear these right wingers out there whining about crime and talking about
how horrible it is, just remember the statistics are literally saying the opposite. And it's about
time for the media to start pushing back on this idiotic Republican talking point.