Crime Is Down?

James Carville was on several talk shows last week saying crime is down and illegal aliens commit fewer crimes than American citizens.

First, let’s look at the claim that illegal aliens commit fewer crimes than natural born Americans. Statistics from Texas would confirm that, however, Texas is about the only state that records immigration statistics of criminals.

For about five years I attended the monthly Sheriff’s Oversight Commission meetings in Los Angeles. Not only isn’t the immigration status of criminals recorded, police are not allowed to even ask the immigration status of inmates so I don’t know how anyone can make the claim that illegal aliens commit fewer crimes. We have no way to make that determination.

Then, let’s address the fact that an astounding number of non-white criminals are listed as “white”. This is just a sample of an entire file I have of these. See below:

Considering it is common practice not to ask immigration status and to list non-whites as “white” how can anyone honestly make the claim that illegal aliens commit fewer crimes?

Now, let’s examine the claim that crime is down. I attended the first meeting the LAPD and Sheriff had explaining the hundreds of felonies they were reducing to misdemeanors and why. We were told it would make LA “safer” but I never understood how. How do the following felonies being reduced to misdemeanors make us safer?

Burglary, Grand Theft, Assault with a deadly weapon, Spousal battery, Child endangerment, Lewd acts with a minor, statutory rape, sexual battery, DUI causing injury, fraud, to name a few.

Due to the “Defund the police” movement many police departments are understaffed and moral is low. Many cities, like Pittsburgh won’t have police respond to anything but emergencies and have no dispatch staff between the hours of 3:00am and 7:00am. Calls go to voice mail. So, if police aren’t responding to non-emergency calls, they are also not reporting them. Police have been reduced to standing by and watching crimes happen. If they do arrest someone they will be released without bail before the officers get back to their cars.

Do you feel crime is down? Do you remember a time when gangs walked into stores and ran out with armloads of merchandise? Where someone walks into a drug store, loads a bag full of merchandise, and calmly walks out? Employees are told not to stop them and thieves know the police won’t be called. These crimes are not reported or included in crime statistics.

When have stores needed to encase all their shelves in plexiglass to prevent theft or had to close because of rampant theft? Look at San Francisco. Most major stores have fled.

There are “migrant” gangs in New York that ride around on scooters grabbing purses. There are “migrants” raping and killing women and children because countries are opening their prisons and sending their criminals to America due to our open border….and why wouldn’t they?

The bottom line is that neither James Carville nor anyone else can make the claim that crime is down or that illegal aliens commit less crime with any credibility.

Source: https://madderthanhell.wordpress.com/2024/08/25/crime-is-down/