largest jump in recorded history. vice president pens, a lot of this began in the covid aero. how much of what we are seeing happening around this country is a result of those covid lockdowns? is your administration in part to win for how we got here? what is to blame is that democrats talking about defunding the police for the last five years. we ought to be funding law enforcement particularly in our major cities. it s at unprecedented levels. it s extraordinary to think about the violence that is claiming innocent lives literally every week in every major city in the country. yet democrats and liberal prosecutors in major metropolitan areas continue to work out their fanciful agendas and to do a bail reform and go easy. what we need his strong commitment to law enforcement. we need leadership in washington, d.c. that will marshal the resources of the
that is what the media needs to be asked. another issue is america and the crime crisis, the homelessness crisis. american cities are in decline. people are moving out as homelessness, drugs and crime move in. there are problems accelerated. they did accelerate during the pandemic and are still rising. murders in los angeles, new york, chicago, all of 30% between 2019 and 2022. homelessness is up 11%, the largest jump in recorded history. vice president pens, a lot of this began in the covid aero. how much of what we are seeing happening around this country is a result of those covid lockdowns? is your administration in part to win for how we got here? what is to blame is that democrats talking about defunding the police for the last five years. we ought to be funding law enforcement particularly in our