Republicans are seeking to tie Democrats to the country’s rising crime wave as part of their strategy for recapturing control of Congress in 2022, hopeful that such a message will prompt a backlash against the party over its embrace of police reform.
There’s no single cause for the spike in violent crime over the past year, and experts say there are several factors at play, including the coronavirus pandemic and the economic anxiety it’s caused.
“Crime and delinquency have many causes. In some ways, the pandemic likely contributed. But it is impossible to ignore that these terrible trends are coming precisely as so-called progressives have decided it’s time to denounce and defund local law enforcement,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said last week.
“These boneheaded decisions are the direct result of an anti-law enforcement fad that has swept through the political left like a wildfire.”
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