now the mark simone show on seven ten w o r filling in for mark here's ken rosado and good to be with you on

your wednesday morning it's so beautiful out uh for those who say i know that name ken rosato i was the

former or m the former new york city tv news hacker i was on channel seven for 20 years i was on on Good Day, Wake Up and Good Day, New York before that on channel 5. And these days, I host a daily show on a New Jersey-based news channel. It's called On New Jersey. You could stream it live or watch reruns at On New Jersey. OnNJ.com. I also run a food website free of charge for all you foodies. It is called

The Food Dude and it has links to thousands of recipes all over the world. It's free.

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two one zero seven ten as a new associate press and a wark see poll it's just out the last

few hours shows a vast majority of americans 81 percent see crime as the major problem in large

city something that the democrats cannot run away from.

They keep saying, crime is down.

Crime is down.

Well, if crime is down so much, why is the perception that it's not?

You can't blame the Republicans because the Democrats control the media.

They control the narrative usually about this.

They are on social media, and they keep telling you crime is down. Well, crime stats are

down for a number of reasons. Number one, they're basing it on the 2023 to 2024 years.

In 2020, we still had COVID. Crime was at a record high, record high murders all around the world.

Every major urban center in the world had record

high murders in 2023. In 2024, the first full year post-COVID, the murder rate dropped. Although

in New York and in D.C., it's still way too high. Specifically in D.C., they had like almost 190

murders in 2024. That makes them per capita.

They have, what is it, five times the murder rate per capita that the Bronx has.

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