As the old saying goes, you reap what you sow. It seems that liberal politicians who sowed the specious seeds of their version of “criminal justice reform” in blue cities across the country now don’t like their crop: high crime rates.
Gallup polls show that 63% of Americans think the crime problem is “extremely or very serious,” up from 54% in 2021. Crime rates have exploded since 2016, after a 30-year decline. And that is a political millstone around the necks of the so-called reformers. To survive in their political positions, they need crime rates to come down.
So, when the FBI announced in December that crime rates declined in the third quarter of 2023 relative to the same period in 2022, reformers and liberal pundits took to the media and celebrated the decline and mocked those (like us) who argue that crime rates are unacceptably high.
The FBI did Not…
