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Drew Kudlow's avatar

I think Americans are using “crime” more loosely than is defined it here, maybe “order” would be more appropriate. I can’t speak for other regions, but in the Bay Area I regularly see huge gangs of dirt bikers roaming around, sideshows on major roads and bridges, and of course rampant public drug use/dealing and shoplifting.

So in a real sense I don’t really care what the statistics say, I see people doing bad things all the time and getting away with it and I want them to be punished. And this seems to be mostly the fault of Democrats, and Biden is a Democrat.

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Crime, though reported on a nationwide basis, is local. Criminal statutes differ, enforcement differs, and the local experience matters more than what any statistic notes. I can assure you that there are places, my midsized blue city being one of them, that has seen no let up of the violence. In fact, we just had one record year of murders after the other. We have people being shot on the highway, more than once in the last six months, in broad daylight, in what's supposed to be one of the "safer" sections of town, and that is the very tip of the ugly, violent iceberg. All that being said, the office of the President has little or nothing to do with what happens in our city in the realm of crime enforcement. I do not blame one man for this, nor will I give them credit. I can and do blame the policies I think pervade one side of the aisle, and you can bet I, along with a surprising number of my friends on the blue aisle, will be voting accordingly.

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