Reporter questions Hochul's crime stats

[George K]

Hopefully, we'll find out where he got his statistics.

[jon-nyc]

So they’re down from the Trump-era peak but not all the way back down.

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in Reporter questions Hochul's crime stats:

So they’re down from the Trump-era Fauci-imposed-lockdown peak but not all the way back down.

https://www.axios.com/2024/12/19/unemployed-men-teens-pandemic-homicides

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/why-did-u-s-homicides-spike-in-2020-and-then-decline-rapidly-in-2023-and-2024/

[jon-nyc]

That was all under Trump. If you want to give him credit for positive stats with large exogenous influences that happened on his watch, you gotta take the negative ones too.

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in Reporter questions Hochul's crime stats:

That was all under Trump. If you want to give him credit for positive stats with large exogenous influences that happened on his watch, you gotta take the negative ones too.

Correct. On his watch.

And, somehow POTATUS hasn't brought it down in the 1795 days he's been in office.

In fact. It trended down until 2020, Trump's last year in office.

https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/USA/united-states/crime-rate-statistics

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/us-crime-rates-and-trends-analysis-fbi-crime-statistics