From President Donald J. Trump:
Democrats have no solutions to today’s crime surge.
Here’s how they shrug off the mayhem.
First: Deep denial.
Through Sept. 27, New Orleans suffered 208 homicides, up 44% versus that period in 2021 and 141% in 2019. The Crescent City has become America’s Murder Capital.
“I do not embrace that at all,” said Democratic Mayor La Toya Cantrell. “It isn’t based on what’s happening on the ground.” She later said that “our city is safer than it’s been in a long time.”
Crime books can be cooked: Curbing arrests can “erase” lawlessness by leaving it unrecorded. But there’s no faking a cadaver. Regardless, Cantrell scoffs at humiliating police data.
Mayor Eric Adams, D-N.Y., likewise got in on the inaction on Thursday. With year-on-year Subway crime up 41%, three Subway-shove victims last week among 13 this year, and one day after Gotham’s transit system witnessed its ninth homicide in 2022, Adams reassured New Yorkers that underground bedlam is all in their minds.
Read the full article by Deroy Murdock for Newsmax here.
