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Violent crime plummets in “Democrat run cities” blasted by Trump
Since his return to the White House, President Trump has repeatedly claimed that major cities across the United States are overrun with crime.
 • Rebecca Crosby
Trump declares war on America
"It’s the enemy from within and we have to handle it before it gets out of control."
 • Judd Legum, Rebecca Crosby, and Noel Sims
Criminal propaganda
On Tuesday, President Trump pledged to deploy the military in Chicago and Baltimore.
 • Judd Legum and Rebecca Crosby
Calling crime data "fake news," Trump seizes DC police
Lies, manipulated data, unsubstantiated allegations, and an unprecedented federal takeover.
 • Judd Legum, Rebecca Crosby, and Noel Sims
Why you might not know that 2024 was America's safest year since the 1960s
An overwhelming majority of Americans, 64 percent, believe that crime increased across the country in 2024, according to a Gallup survey conducted late…
 • Judd Legum and Rebecca Crosby
Cash bail myths debunked by plummeting city crime data
According to President Trump, large American cities are crime-infested hellholes.
 • Rebecca Crosby and Noel Sims
The secret to Baltimore's extraordinary year
This April, Baltimore saw five homicides.
 • Rebecca Crosby and Noel Sims
Trump's fake crime wave
On January 19, during a rally held in Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump claimed that “crime has gone through the roof” and that it “was up like…
 • Rebecca Crosby
Lies, damn lies, and shoplifting statistics
For 32 years, the National Retail Federation (NRF) — the lobbying group representing major retailers in the United States — has produced the "National…
 • Judd Legum
Common myths about the new FBI crime statistics, debunked
This week, the FBI released its report on crime in the United States during 2023.
 • Judd Legum
Why Trump's spurious attacks on crime are working
One of the central arguments in former President Donald Trump's 2024 campaign is the false claim that the United States is a crime-infested hellhole…
 • Judd Legum
California's shoplifting laws are not broken. California is "fixing" them anyway.
Last week, California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) signed a package of 10 bills intended to deter shoplifting and other property crime.
 • Judd Legum and Noel Sims
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