The Democrats Play Dumb About Crime
They will blame everything for it but their own policies.
by George Neumayr
December 15, 2021, 10:05 PM
According to the Biden administration, crime is spiking in big cities due to “COVID.” Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot offers an even more brazen explanation for the rise of crime: the negligence of businesses. “We still have retailers that won’t institute plans like having security officers in their stores, making sure that they’ve got cameras that are actually operational, locking up their merchandise at night, chaining high-end bags. These purses can be something that is attracting a lot of organized retail theft units,” she has said.
In analyzing crime, Democrats carefully exclude from consideration one of the most obvious causes of it: their own soft-on-crime policies. A crime spree under Democrats is no more surprising than a surge at the border under them. Both criminals and illegal immigrants can interpret the party’s inviting signals.
On crime, the Democrats have sounded the most uncertain of trumpets, communicating at best ambivalence about fighting it. Criminals correctly see a lack of resolve in the party’s defund-the-police chatter, its drive to weaken the criminal justice system in the name of “equity,” and its woke propaganda that empowers criminals at the expense of cops.
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