Crime Continues To Spike Under Democrats

Biden And Democrats Are Failing To Halt Rising Crime And Take Responsibility For The Chaos Their Policies Are Causing

DEMOCRAT POLICIES HAVE ALLOWED CRIME TO SPIKE AROUND THE COUNTRY

• During the campaign, Biden pledged a “safe America … safe from crime and looting,” yet has delivered the opposite as president.
• Under Biden and Democrats’ watch, crime has skyrocketed.
  • “At least 12 major U.S. cities” – all Democrat-run – have seen record levels of homicides in 2021.
• After failing to stand up to the radicals in his own party who pushed defunding the police, now Biden and Democrats are not taking responsibility for this dramatic rise in crime.

CRIME IS SURGING IN DEMOCRAT-RUN CITIES

• 12 U.S. cities have broken annual homicide records in 2021, all of which are run by Democrats.
  • Experts say the strain in law enforcement staffing, with the nationwide police department retirement rate up 45 percent this year, has contributed to a decline in arrests.
  • Other cities including Milwaukee and Minneapolis are on the verge of setting new homicide records before the year is over.
• Democrat-run cities are seeing a rise in smash-and-grab robberies, with thousands of dollars in merchandise stolen at a time.
  • This crime spree has led to employees attacked and holiday shoppers left scared, with one woman saying, “I haven’t been coming out as often to this area just because I know stores have been getting hit.”
• Carjackings are also on the rise, with a 44 percent increase in Chicago, a 45 percent increase in Washington D.C., and a 81 percent increase in New York City.
  • It’s getting so bad that the media is now giving tips on how not to get carjacked in Washington D.C., including “stay in your car at the gas station.”

DEMOCRAT POLICIES ENABLE CRIME TO SPREAD

• Failed Democrat policies are enabling criminals, including:
  • Weakened bail policies, including for violent and repeat felons.
  • No prosecutions for brazen criminal thieves.
  • Downgrading crimes from felonies to misdemeanors.
  • Vaccine mandates that are forcing first responders off the job in states like New York, California,and Illinois.
  • Defunding the police.
  • Anti-police rhetoric leading to a crisis level number of police retirements.
• In many cities, criminals no longer worry about being caught.
• Walgreens had to close multiple stores and Target reduced operating hours in the San Francisco Bay Area due to “organized retail crime.”

DEMOCRATS ALLOW CRIMINALS TO BE BOLDER THAN EVER BEFORE

• In San Francisco, a supermarket was forced to install barricades at its entrance to stop shoplifters.
• In New York City, a man was able to commit three crimes in a 36-hour period because of Democrat bail reform laws that allowed him to pay no bail and commit even more crimes.
• In Los Angeles, a physical therapy center was robbed at gunpoint by multiple suspects.
• In Chicago, burglars were able to rob three high-end stores in a one-hour span.
• In Democrat-run Raleigh, North Carolina, there were a record 21 armed robberies in the first eight days of November.

DEMOCRATS ARE BLAMING EVERYONE BUT THEMSELVES FOR SPIKING CRIME

• Democrats are failing to take responsibility for the organized crime sprees their policies encourage, blaming everyone and everything but themselves.
  • Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot blamed retailers for the surge in smash-and-grab robberies.
  • White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki blamed COVID for the “rash” of smash-and-grabs in Democrat-run cities.
  • Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez falsely claimed these widely reported retail crime sprees weren’t real, insisting “allegations of organized retail theft are not actually panning out.”
  • Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner claims the city does not “have a crisis of crime” despite a record number of homicides this year.
• Americans know Democrat policies are to blame for the surge in crime.
  • Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney John McKinney blamed “bad law and bad policy” for the recent spike in crime in his city.
  • Beverly Hills police chief Mark Stainbrook blamed Los Angeles’ woke bail reform laws.
  • Even MSNBC called out Democrats for letting cities spiral “out of control.”
  • For the first time in more than three decades, Seattle elected a Republican City Attorney to restore law and order.