Goonteenth

Nick Anderson

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No crime wave

Kevin Drum:

One more time: there is no epidemic of crime.

There is an epidemic of homicide, but that's a very different thing. Violent crime rates have been essentially flat for the past five years and property crimes have continued their long-term decline.

OK, so what can Biden do about the outbreak of homicide? The answer: Nothing. 

First off, crime is primarily a local problem, and there's very little the federal government can do about it. Second, nobody even knows why homicide spiked up last year, and there's no real way of addressing a problem like this until we have some idea of what caused it....