(Which was, more specifically, a spike in homicides - other categories of crime, like robberies and burglaries, fell.)īut early data from 2023 suggests that this trend is actually reversing, a fact that underpins what’s always been true about the bigger picture: that crime rates are still near historic lows and, despite Pence and Ramaswamy’s claims that cops are being defunded by Democrats and held back by prohibitive conduct rules, the Biden administration encouraged municipalities to spend millions in COVID relief funds on police hiring.
The premise of the crime-and-guns question assumed that America’s cities are in ruin owing to rampant lawlessness with the moderators citing statistics about the COVID-era crime spike between 20.
