This week, the Trump administration tried to take credit for crime dropping in cities across the country. In a post on X, the Department of Homeland Security tried to tout numbers it not too long ago denied even existed, stating, “HOMICIDES DOWN 17% across 30 U.S. cities under President Trump and Secretary Noem.”
The DHS is right that in city after city led by Democratic mayors, violent crime is dropping, with some cities even hitting historic lows. But it is egregiously misleading and brazenly hypocritical of the White House to try to take credit. The truth is that it’s all happening in spite of Donald Trump, not because of him...
Instead of working to reduce crime, Trump and Republicans in Washington have pushed unprecedented cuts to critical government and community-based public safety programs our cities rely on. They have told violence prevention leaders their work isn’t an efficient use of resources and that gun violence prevention is a waste. They have forced our communities to live in fear, repeatedly detained innocent people and thrown the rule of law out the window...
But Democratic mayors have stepped up to demonstrate what real leadership looks like, to continue to move our cities forward. We are managing what we can control and doubling down on programs and strategies that work — the majority of which were designed by and for the communities we serve. And as a result of this leadership, across the country, Democratic-led cities are seeing major reductions in violent crime and homicides.
Baltimore’s first-ever Comprehensive Violence Prevention Plan brought together law enforcement, community violence interrupters and local organizations to drive down violence. Today, the city’s homicide rate is at its lowest in 50 years. MORE
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