benjamin: deadly crime spiked at alarming rates across the country in 2021. at least 16 major cities from coast to coast have set new records for homicides. it comes as other violent and non-violent crimes declined in the same areas. joining us now is former detroit police chief james craig running for governor in michigan and president of the st. paul police association. i want to put up a list of the 16 cities that have broken records. i won t read all of them. of those 16, 15 of them are democrat-run. the only one not is macon, georgia. just to look at some of the stats. we look back over the past year portland last broke the record set 35 years ago. philadelphia a record set 32 years ago. minnesota 30 years ago, that record and austin, texas was a record set 38 years ago. jump up significantly.