Violent Crime is the subject of our Talking Points memo this evening.

So this all accelerated. We've always had violent crime in America ever since the Pilgrims were here.

But it really accelerated on May 25, 2020. Okay? That's when George Floyd was killed by the police in Minneapolis, in front of the whole nation.

Since that time, violence has skyrocketed,

and there are a number of reasons why.

The first reason was that the riots that followed

all throughout the United States sent a signal to criminals that they can get away with it

because they saw people blowing up police stations, assaulting police, looting, and nothing

happened to those people.

So the visual images that people saw on television

sent that signal, you can commit a crime,

nothing's gonna happen to you.

The combination of that with the very permissive,

progressive left law enforcement people,

usually district attorneys, who wouldn't prosecute,

didn't want to prosecute what they call low-level or non-violent crimes, the combination

made it a open zone for criminals, particularly in the big cities, to do what they want. You add to that the drug

culture. This is particularly true in Chicago, New York, and L.A., where the violent criminals who

control the street narcotics industry are all armed. They have to be. Because if they're

not, other criminals will take their money and their drugs. So they're all armed. It's narcotics

driven. People don't understand that. Yes, there are burglars and there are muggers who have guns, but not nearly to the level

of the drug traffickers.

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