what we saw tonight and unfortunately what we saw over the last several days is an illegal firearm brazenly used on d.c. streets. you cannot coddle common criminals. they might not want a job. they might not. they might not need services. we talk about streets because they are making it unsafe for us. why is it that a guy who murdered somebody is out in community after having been arrested two or three month prior with a firearm? what are we think he was going to do? bret: d.c. police chief robert conti in a presser today talking to reporters after that shooting last night. this comes here in the nation s
jacqui: the point about this being an issue in the midterm touched on another thing, when the economy is tough, the crime goes up and it was interesting, one of the top democratic pollsters was just recently warning the biden administration coming have to pay attention to inflation, because this will show up in the midterm, women voters pay attention to these issues and this is all tied together in a way that is going to become a focus in 2022. john: the defund the police movement has backfired. while we wait for the police in washington and the chief to come out to the podium, we will head to new york city, cops releasing shocking video of people savagely beating a woman with a cooking pot in harlem and stealing her walker. lauren green is live in new york city, we asked the question what in the world is going on in washington, d.c.? what the heck is going on in new york? what happened was a heated verbal exchange quickly became a physically violent. it was all caught on video s
in washington, d.c., that is an uptick from 2020 when at this point there were 422, but as chief pointed out, last year records for homicides that were set back in a collapsing of what was 2004, 198 homicides in the district of columbia. do you attribute this to politicians? do you attribute this to the justice system? what do you think is really responsible for all of this? when i saw this was when covid started in the shutdowns happen and even when there were these protocols pitting people against each other through a loss of jobs, so economically it led to this, but the change in the violence in the city was when they defund the police movement started. when that started, it seemed that crime had the surge in the city and i felt that and i experienced it and felt that i needed to leave. and by the way, fox has done a good job covering the crime wave, but i think it is tragic that the reason why there is mainstream coverage of this
year in washington, d.c., that these politicians have never recovered from and instead mischaracterize the police and falling with the activists, and we wonder why we get this. we wonder when the left will wake up to the reality that is pointing the finger at cops makes lawlessness more likely. john: as always thank you for joining us today, we ll see you tomorrow on fox & friends. we will talk more about crime in america including the situation going on in st. louis. jacqui: one thing that gets lost in this conversation is when you don t have, you talk about police not being visible, but you need people to investigate the crimes, and you have no suspects, no arrests in any of these. john: robert conti who is head of the d.c. police said that they will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the wall, but what does that mean? because even if you find them and arrest them, a lot of times they go to walk. so it s really a shame what is happening in d.c. jacqui: it s terrifying.
community. and it breaks my heart. it breaks my heart, ma am. and that s what i m saying and we are calling attention to. that s what i m calling attention to. john: kent williams with us, a fox news contributor. you can hear as jacqui said, the frustration and chief conti s voice. he is saying that he is mad as hell, and he pointed to an extraordinary stunning figure that there is a recidivism rate of violent criminals in the city of 87%, why aren t these people off the streets and imprisoned? john, you know, i heard the chief and i know him personally, chief contee, and i know that he is emotionally charged by what is going on in the city and rightfully so, the fact about it is it is shocking when you look at that recidivism rate of being individuals going through the criminal justice system and being back on the street, and he