Originally Posted by
Walter Sobchak
The murder stats are from 2020. Trump was in office then.
0/4 true, 0/4 will come true.
Murders were up in 2020 because of spineless Democratic governments in large cities making terrible decisions regarding crime and punishment, including during/after the riots.
Truthfully crime is a state and local issue, and not a federal one. The President can direct the conversation and trends regarding crime and punishment, but ultimately it's the responsibility of state/local government.
Obama did screw something up badly, which doesn't get enough spotlight. He injected himself into the Ferguson shooting controversy, making it seem as if it were a racist execution of an innocent black man. It wasn't. This changed the entire way people looked at race and policing, and not for the better. It also gave rise to riots where it was considered permissible to break, maim, burn, and kill with little consequence. More importantly, it gave rise to policing policy which was more obsessed with racial identity politics than keeping crime down. This reversed a 23-year trend of declining crime in the US, and we started going back up again. In certain big cities (such as Baltimore, Detriot, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, and others), it has gotten really bad. Portland is basically in a state of anarchy. It's a complete disaster. All of this was all going the right direction through 2013.
The left is really, really bad at crime and punishment.