It’s just another politician claiming credit for social/economic trends that happen while they’re in office. The article says “The nation experienced the largest single-year drop in murders on record last year” and the article it links to says “The big picture: The decline in killings is part of a broader decrease in violent crime following the COVID-era spike”. That could easily be spun as “Trump fucked it up in his first term and Biden fixed it” if you wanted to play that game.
Is there more context to this, link or source or anything? Preferably not from somewhere the administration can bully into faking numbers.
EDIT: Source here: https://web.archive.org/web/20260115002055/https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2026/01/mass-deportations-are-improving-americans-quality-of-life/
It’s just another politician claiming credit for social/economic trends that happen while they’re in office. The article says “The nation experienced the largest single-year drop in murders on record last year” and the article it links to says “The big picture: The decline in killings is part of a broader decrease in violent crime following the COVID-era spike”. That could easily be spun as “Trump fucked it up in his first term and Biden fixed it” if you wanted to play that game.
This is a valid point if you don’t want to take the WH word for it.