Murder Rates Plummeted Last Year, Yet Media Refuse to Give Trump Credit |
Violent crime plummeted around the country this year, but the legacy media refuse to acknowledge that it has anything to do with the return of President Donald Trump.
According to a report by the Council on Criminal Justice, over the past year, the murder rate dropped to its lowest level since 1900. Other crimes dropped across 11 of 13 categories in the report.
The study also noted that while FBI crime statistics won’t become available until later this year, there is a strong possibility that 2025 could mark “the largest single-year percentage drop in the homicide rate on record.”
While crime was beginning to fall in 2024, the drop occurred most dramatically in the past year. Interesting timing, right?
As most Americans outside the newsrooms of our most elite legacy media publications almost certainly know, crime spiked dramatically in 2020 immediately following the George Floyd riots. This coincided with a nationwide push by the Left to obliterate traditional policing in the name of anti-racism and social justice.
To the shock of nobody with common sense, crime immediately spiked and stayed high for years until it finally began slowing down. Now it’s going down faster than ever before.
That’s amazing and well worth celebrating. But don’t think that the media is going to give any credit to the Trump administration.
This line from a New York Times piece on the crime drop sums up so much about the state of politics in recent years.
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