least 139 murders so far in 2022. and other violent crimes including rape, aggravated assault also trending higher. according to the lrk apd homicide staff in the last year. 2021, 397. five months into 2022. there has already been 139 homicides. that s not painting a good picture. what is the mayor, what are the local politicians going to do about the crime? will they finally put the power into the police hands in order to try to get a handle on it? part of the complicated thing here in l.a. county we have a district attorney named george gascon who has made it his mission to try to have more progressive policies to try to make it easier for people to get out of jail and to make it harder to arrest people. because of that, some would say we ve seen crime increase. there is a recount effort against him that is now underway just like there is a recount against the san
property crime up, shooting victims up, since he took office in 2020. what is your response when people cite these numbers to you? first of, all great to see you again. the problem is that these numbers are going up around the nation. in fact we know that the numbers are even higher in some of the jurisdictions that are being administered by right-wing district attorneys and in blue states. as you mentioned earlier, the reality is that reform and public safety travel together. unless we have addressed the root causes of crimes, look at the issues of mental health, look to the issues or substance abuse, of homelessness. of income inequality. systemic racism. unless we resolve these things, we are going to continue to see crime increase in many parts of the country. and, again we are seeing that be more the case in those
was not al qaeda operative. they don t want to call this terrorism but a white nationalist it would be all over the news. a media terrorist attack. it seems like he was untrained, right, a lot of evidence at the scene. we don t know yet exactly what his motives were, but going over the social media post and things of that nature come i think it seems clear. todd: we have seen crime increase in the city as the defund the police movement has caught on and really caught fire. we have seen problems in the city escalate to a horrible, horrible level. if the nypd one, but allow to do their job. well, you have members of the new york city council who police abolitionists and everybody wants to defund the police especially during last summer with the george floyd or two summers ago now. you have these people who want to defund the police but wondering why the police were not around.
dana: violent crime rising across the u.s. changing the conversation in the white house as americans demand a reversal of far left policies that critics say are soft on crime. president biden breaking from progressive stressing support for more police funding. we re live in new york city with madison. good morning, dana. as we see crime increase across the u.s. politicians no longer asking for the defunding of the police but instead for greater support. as you mentioned president biden has been also pushing for this on friday in a break from progressives he said he supports more police funding. a move that could be popular with the vast majority of americans. fox news polling released yesterday shows that 81% of voters are either extremely or very concerned about rising crime. defund the police advocates are walking back their stances particularly following the death of a rookie cop in new york city this weekend.
adams says he will reinstate the plain closed police unit that was disbanded in 2020. we did see crime increase after that unit was disbanded. that s the story for today, monday, january 24. thanks for being with us today. have a great evening. i ll see you tomorrow. the show down with russia over ukraine, the u.s. putting 8,500 u.s. troops on alert as nato hopes to deter a possible russian invasion. the state department telling americans to get out of ukraine now. it has more investors on edge as the dow plunged more than 1,000 points in the session. more on the tell-off to come. i m charles payne in for neil cavuto, this is your world to jennifer griffin at the pentagon with the very latest from there. jennifer? we just left the pentagon