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Commentary By Heather Mac Donald

GOP Candidates Can Make Democrats Sweat With These Four Questions On Crime

Public Safety Policing, Crime Control

The FBI has confirmed what millions of Americans already knew: the Democrat-enabled, post-George Floyd crime surge continued in 2021.

Homicides rose another estimated 4.3% last year, on top of 2020’s 29% spike, according to the FBI’s newly released 2021 crime report. Aggravated assaults, which include the drive-by shootings that are terrorizing urban neighborhoods, were up 4%, though violent crime overall was down one percent, thanks to a reduction in robberies.

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Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith fellow at the Manhattan Institute, contributing editor at City Journal, and the author of The War on Cops.

This piece originally appeared in Daily Caller