Posted on 02/03/2022 11:04:13 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's meeting with New York Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday to discuss combating escalating gun crime signals Democrats want to send a message that they will not cede the issue of public safety to Republicans this election year.
Republicans contend that a pandemic-era spike in homicides and gun crimes in urban areas across the nation is tied to Democratic backing for the “defund the police” movement that arose out of the racial justice protests of 2020.
With U.S. voters ranking crime among their top concerns and support for Biden eroding in the suburbs, a Biden adviser and several Democratic strategists said the president's decision to visit the New York Police Department headquarters with Adams offers a chance for Biden to refashion the political narrative around Democrats and crime ahead of November's midterm congressional elections.
“Democrats at large and the president are frustrated that we continue to get tagged on this ‘defund the police' nonsense that the large part of the Democratic Party does not agree with,” said Mark Riddle, executive director of Future Majority, a moderate Democratic research firm.
The Biden political adviser, who asked not to be named, said the Biden administration will argue that lax gun laws and enforcement favored by Republicans are helping drive the rise in crime and making policing more dangerous.
Experts have attributed the surge in homicides over the last two years to the COVID-19 pandemic, which emptied downtowns, shredded the economy and disrupted social services, along with easy access to illicit firearms and a shift in policing strategies following the 2020 racial justice protests.
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“the Biden administration will argue that lax gun laws and enforcement favored by Republicans are helping drive the rise in crime”
Then we would have seen crime rise in Republican-controlled areas first, but we didn’t, dummies.
Yeah, I’m sure Brandon’s visit will usher in a new emphasis on crime in New York.
HA HA!...I hope you and your ilk go down the drain very soon...
Reuters, a media extension of the Democrat Party.
Republicans are for lax enforcement of gun laws?
They literally applauded the George Floyd rioters and said rioting in the streets was fine while everyone else was ordered to stay at home. These scumbags can’t get away from that.
So now, arresting people who are violent against others and then letting them go hours later (as mandated by New York state no bail law or local DA mandates) and they commit another violent crime, is gun violence/gun crime?
Whoodathink?
Evil liars...
They created the mess to begin with. Biden is Bull in China shop. Will never fix anything. He did this because of Jan Pasaki’s interview bashing Fox News crime coverage.
The jackasses can deny it all they want, but if you were to line up all those who pushed for defunding the police, and those who didn’t, it will break down 99.9:1 Democrats who pushed it.
Plus, every single DA who didn’t prosecute crimes is a Leftist.
And nearly every Governor, Mayor, or police chief who catered to this nonsense was a Leftist. Not all, but the overwhelming majority.
So, if they shoe fits, they must be made to wear it.
They are off to a bad start if they are only going to: 1) Blame guns and not the perps 2) Support no bail laws 3) Support Soros DA's who refuse to prosecute crime.
Sorry, Dumocrats. You got in bed with some very unsavory characters the last few years, and now you’re tied to them. You’ll never shake the lax-on-crime narrative.
Editorializing right in the middle of trying to establish a newsworthy premise: that is what passes for journalism these days.
Lax enforcement of already lenient laws and policies is not a medical issue; it is an ideological issue.
Psaki said that crime only existed on Fox News - why did Biden go to NY ?
The only way he can thread the needle between reality and the demands of the radical left is to go to “gun violence” even though we all know full well it is the malfeasance of rat politicians and DAs that is at issue.
Funny like the SUV crashing into the Christmas Parade in Waukesha.
Counter-punch with a feather boa....................
‘Rats need to purge all of those who wanted to defund the police no matter how they stated it.
Otherwise they OWN it.
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