In Da House
Our house, in the middle of our street. It’s both the chorus of a 1982 hit song and the location of the crime wave you’ve been hearing so much about. It turns out that the crime rate is at a pretty solid low in America. The one place it remains stubbornly high? Well, let’s put it this way. The call is coming from inside the house. And it’s likely to wake you up. Bloomberg (Gift Article): When and Where Does Crime Happen? At Home, After Midnight. “New FBI statistics paint a detailed portrait of where and how crime happens in the US. Violent incidents in particular tend to involve familiar people in familiar places.” (Maybe Trump should send in the National Guard to be roommates.)
+ The NYT editorial board breaks down many interesting reasons and theories about why crime has been falling. Crime Keeps Falling. Here’s Why. This tidbit will probably surprise a whole lot of Americans. “It is worth mentioning one factor that has played little role in the recent crime decline, contrary to claims from Mr. Trump. He has suggested that the crime spike was the fault of illegal immigration during the Biden administration and that the reversal stems from his border crackdown. That appears to be simply false. Immigrants, including those who entered the country illegally, commit crimes at lower rates than native-born Americans (in part because of the potential consequences, including deportation). The timeline does not work, either. Murder began surging in 2020, when migration was very low, and began falling in 2023, when it was still high.” Maybe these stats make this headline inevitable: Trump Crackdown Snares More Migrants With No US Criminal Records. The administration’s latest answer to these numbers comes from Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary of public affairs at DHS: “Many of the individuals that are counted as ‘non-criminals’ are actually terrorists, human rights abusers, gangsters and more. They just don’t have a rap sheet in the US.” So we’re targeting criminals with no record of having committed a crime? Every house on the block is filled with those.
