Biden’s NYC visit won’t address the real causes of crime: Democratic policyBy John Barrasso
February 2, 2022
President Joe Biden is heading to Gotham Thursday to meet with Mayor Eric Adams. The topic is crime. New Yorkers will not be fooled when the president pays lip service to public safety and support for police.
Biden frames New York’s tragedies as a gun problem. On Monday, he talked about “the surge of gun violence since the start of this pandemic.” The coronavirus caused illness, not crime.
Forget political correctness: Criminals cause crime, and criminals cause gun violence. And now that Democrats have defunded police, no one is left to stop the criminals. Progressive prosecutors won’t pursue them either.
We should crack down on gang members wielding illegal firearms. Yet the root cause of today’s national crime wave is defunded police forces sidelined by Democrats.
We turn to police to deal with criminals. If they can’t do their job, our streets aren’t safe. Now radical district attorneys like Manhattan’s Alvin Bragg are refusing even to prosecute the crooks that our cops do catch.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2022/02/02/bidens-nyc-visit-wont-address-real-causes-of-crime-democratic-policy/
