bernie sanders and now they are considering the possibility of electing a former republican as their mayor. why would that be? check out the crime statistics in los angeles. 2021 to 2022, robberies are up in red. aggravated assault up in red, total crime up in red as well. and that s what people are voting on in los angeles. we will see how it turns out, at 11 eastern time, an hour and 20 minutes from now. gas? california? cross the country, $6.37 in california, national average $4.91. i paid $5.20 the other day in new york. again, the economy and what california wants is a future. quickly i will go through this. this is the 22nd congressional district in california. why do i point this out? this is a republican, he voted to impeach president trump, he s got several challengers, three on screen. president trump has not endorsed any of these challengers here in
elected in 2019. now after a heavily funded recall and rising crime in this city and cities across the nation, san francisco voters have tossed him out of officer. the nation is watching. the progressive reforms that helped elect san francisco s district attorney in 2019 may have caused those same voters to toss him out of office last night. people should hold all of us to a higher standard. he pushes against what he calls mass incarceration. the successful recall vote was not a surprise. polls showed voters were concerned about a city in decline, homelessness and crime
you had crime rates at 50-year lows. so i think a lot of voters, not just progressives, but a lot of independents and swing voters said things have changed so dramatically, we can take these chances on criminal justice reform. then of course 2020 happened, covid happened. suddenly, my gosh, the situation is starting to look in places like san francisco and other areas, like a replay from the 1970s. reporter: that s right. if you look at other major cities across the country that are the same size as san francisco, all of them are seeing crime up in the same ways. we are all seeing it out of the pandemic. those cities are in many cases
said he would not prosecute resisting arrest, which is unbelievable. when you look at overall crime statistics, crime up in new york city by 39%. robberies up 33%. shootings up 23%. felony assault up 12%. it has never been more dangerous time to be a police officer than right now. we re hearing mayor eric adams new plan to fight crime, how do police feel about it? do they think he can change things in the city? well, the police have a lot of faith in the mayor because he s a former nypd captain. he appointed the police commissioner. her press conference the day that officer rivera was killed resonated with rank and file. police are also reluctant, they have a good steps in place there, deputy commissioner james
harris: 2021 brought angst and real life problems and you were hearing to a lot of americans. inflation up, crime up, coronavirus exploding as the year comes to a close. a new fox business poll shows only 19% of voters considered it a good year. better than 2020 but only half of the number who said 2019 was a good year. the real life popper among self-identified democrats majority said this one was a bad one for the country. when it comes to their own families a third said 2021 was good. 55% say 2021 was bad for their household. power panel aaron, vice president at tag strategies and former trump 2020 director of press communications, leslie marshall fox news contributor. aaron, i come to you first and the importance of the numbers we re seeing now. well, it is clear that joe