Saturday, July 16, 2016

Trump Wants You To Believe Urban Crime Is Spiking. The Data Indicates It’s Not.

In the wake of a historically violent week in America last week, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has been promising to “make America safe again.”

“Too many headlines flash across our screens everyday about the rising crime and rising death tolls in our cities,” Trump said in a Facebook video posted last Friday. He echoed that sentiment during a speech Monday in Virginia Beach, characterizing the country’s inner cities as being “rife with crime” and describing himself as the “law and order candidate” who will get the situation under control....
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/07/12/3797430/trump-wants-you-to-believe-city-crime-is-rising-but-it-is-not/


No comments:

Post a Comment








Click Older Posts above to see more.