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So it's no secret that crime is rising across the country, especially in major cities.

Houston's homicide rate went up 71% from 2019 to 2021.

There's a pretty simple reason for this.

The first is that murderers are being released back into our streets.

Between 2016 and 2021, 133 capital murder suspects were bonded out of jail in Harris County.

And yet, while crime trends are often very localized, there are some national trends as well that

have unfolded.

A liberals have softened their tone after vocally promoting the defund police movement.

They are still trying to defund and dismantle many departments across the country.

To illustrate these trends, we have on criminal justice expert Josh Crawford.

Josh, thanks for being on.

Thanks for having me.

So Josh is the executive director of the Pegasus Institute, a public policy

think tank located in Louisville, Kentucky, oversees the institute's research and advocacy.

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