Biden Ended the Trump Crime Wave
Biden Ended the Trump Crime Wave
www.nytimes.com Opinion | Biden Ended the Trump Crime Wave
Homicides, which surged during 2020, have been plunging.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
It seems safe to predict, however, that Donald Trump — a felon who has been found civilly liable for sexual abuse and defamation — will try to make a good bit of the debate about crime.
It also seems safe to predict that almost everything he says about crime (and other subjects, like the economy) will be deeply misleading, if not outright lies, despite the prospect of real-time and post hoc fact-checking.
After all, Trump and his allies have spent months falsely portraying America as a nation terrorized by a wave of violent crime, pointing the finger at migrants and claiming that President Biden is responsible.
As of last year, weekday traffic was still well below prepandemic levels, presumably reflecting fewer people commuting into downtown offices given the rise in remote and hybrid work.
But weekend foot traffic, driven by people choosing to take advantage of urban amenities, had almost fully recovered — which wouldn’t be happening if shoppers, tourists and so on were terrified of crime.
And the president probably deserves some credit for that success — among other things, the American Rescue Plan included a lot of aid to state and local governments, which may have encouraged additional spending on law enforcement.
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I'm sure he'll do more crime.
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Car thefts are way up, thanks to key-less entry. How about doing something about that!
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Sounds like a problem for manufacturers. After all, federal regulation seems to be on a down turn thanks to conservative justices.
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The crime that most people are talking about when referencing "crime" is violent crime.
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And here I was thinking "crime" in public surveys meant "I see people with darker skin than me sometimes" rather than any kind of actual criminal behavior.
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Well, that's stupid.
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Start asking why manufacturing companies have drug their asses fixing the obvious issues plauging the security of our cars. Basic thingslikee having physical keys that function like a key. Not a RFID tag. Push button start is so fucking lazy for security.
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This doesn't seem to be a USA only issue. Stricter regulation of what cars can be sold in the USA would fix this. But I feel like the USA is entering an era of anti-regulations. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/24/revealed-car-industry-was-warned-keyless-vehicles-vulnerable-to-theft-a-decade-ago
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Much as I'd like to blame Trump for everything bad that happened during his term, the pandemic and surrounding craziness caused a spike in crime, and Trump did not cause the pandemic.
Biden did not end the pandemic or its social impacts. I'd argue the pandemic isn't really over, but most of its social impacts are.
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I would say Trump might deserve some of the blame for the pandemic because he cut the CDC's pandemic response funding in the 1st or 2nd year of his term.
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Trump did next to nothing about the pandemic when it turns out "something" was his job
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Hey, be fair. He actively worked to make it worse and committed literal acts of piracy, stealing PPE intended for blue states and giving them to his son-in-law to resell. Remember when Boston had to borrow the Pats private jet to prevent the PPE that the city bought from being stolen? You bet your ass Pepperidge Farm fucking remembers.
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We're still seeing the endemic effects of the pandemic because Trump did nothing.
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He didn't do nothing, though. He polarized masks, and the disease itself, killing hundreds of thousands of people.
Edit: I have multiple family members that actually have become fully anti-vax since his presidency. They were NEVER anti-vax before Trump. So he's likely killed millions of people from the way he handled things.
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Trump and the Republicans extended the pandemic in the US and made it far worse with their policies that turned many of their voters into anti-vaxx and anti-mask lunatics.
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It is exhausting to hear people talk about "The Crime Wave!" every time any crime metric ticks up by even the smallest margin. We haven't had "high crime" in the US since the early 90s, but we get media coverage of crime like every major city is an active war zone.
Every four years, we have a President waltz in - point at a blip downward - and say he "Solved Crime!" by throwing an extra ten billion at domestic security budgets. Then a new contender shows up and insists we still need even more cops, because a different stat blipped upwards.
I’d argue the pandemic isn’t really over, but most of its social impacts are.
You're going to get a lot of very angry people posting at you for suggesting COVID continues to plague the country (particularly service sector workers and people working in meat packing plants, where the disease still runs rampant).
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Yeah, I am in my 40s and when people significantly older than me talk about how crime is worse than it has ever been I am always like "I guess you don't remember 1970-2000".
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Right and Trump is faithful to his mail order wives.
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Yes. Let's blame everyone rather than those that committed the crime. I love when critical thinking is ignored. It's so invigorating to hear mindless dribble instead of concise analysis.
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