Cameron Arcand

Now, you go back to 2021 during the Biden era, you know, you had a lot of Democrats, a lot of people arguing that there was a pandemic era uptick in crime.

Now, Democrats mostly did attribute that to COVID arguing lockdowns essentially, you know, drove people to do these sorts of things and economic concerns like that.

Meanwhile, Republicans argue that the spike during that time period was the result of efforts to defund the police in many urban areas.

Also, you saw the rise of a lot of soft-on-crime district attorneys in certain areas like L.A.

County and other major hubs of populations, for example, as well as judges that might have made it difficult for certain people facing very serious charges or convictions for violent crimes to actually stay behind bars.

Yeah.

So the data from that index does show that aggravated assaults were down around 7%, robberies were down around 18%, and car thefts were down 23%.

Now, the Hill noted that we are going to get a clearer picture when the FBI releases their own data.

Those numbers might take a minute for us to get.

As you know, this past year, we didn't get those numbers until August.

So

We will get a clearer picture then.

But for now, this gives a really good indicator that we'll be seeing some pretty serious drops once we get those official statistics.

Yeah.

So, I mean, the White House has said this was one of the reasons that Trump was elected in the first place to crack down on crime.

Now, you look no further than, you know, the effort to potentially strip away federal funding to cities that have cashless bail.

We've also, of course, seen this with the surge in federal law enforcement in cities like Washington, D.C.

and Memphis.

There's also been crime reform made at the federal level to Washington, D.C.,

These actions that are being taken, especially with these federal surges with the National Guard, but also other agencies that are able to make arrests and really be able to support local law enforcement, could be used in other cities, as you had people like Mayor Muriel Bowser in DC, who was initially very skeptical of the surge of enforcement in crime.