Drew Holden: Leftwing Media "Analysts" Are Baffled by the "Mysterious" One-Year Plunge in Crime.
Spoiler: It's Only a Mystery to Propagandists Who Won't Admit the Obvious

How did crime plunge so suddenly -- so "unexpectedly," if you will -- the moment Weekend at Biden's was shuffled out of the White House to be replaced by a law-and-order, deportation-minded president?

The leftwing media insists this is a giant mystery whose depths cannot be plumbed.

They're lying, Drew Holden reports.

Crime--particularly violent crime--is down dramatically over the last year. Cities like New York, Memphis, and Washington, D.C. where murders, carjacking, and theft plagued the public in the wake of COVID-19, were all found to have experienced double-digit decreases in violent crime. Experts, the legacy media, and many Democrats are scratching their heads. As a recent New York Times headline declared, "What's Behind the Staggering Drop in the Murder Rate? No One Knows for Sure."

Other outlets and commentators have been similarly befuddled. New York Magazine dubbed it "The Mysterious Plunge in America's Murder Rate." Experts "said it's too early to tell what is prompting the change," the Associated Press intoned; the Washington Post cited a liberal expert who cautioned that there was "no silver bullet" to make sense of the data. For TIME, the drop in violent crime "can be attributed to a kaleidoscope of factors, none of which can singularly or definitively account for the decline." CNN shrugged that "it's nearly impossible to zero in on any one reason" for the drop. "The bottom line: Experts aren't sure why violent crime continues to fall," Axios reported

Not until 21 paragraphs into the Times piece do the authors give us a hint about how it happened: experts "do not wholly discount" policing, particularly "the multipronged effort that many cities mounted against violence in the past few years, including hot-spot policing, summer jobs for youth, cognitive behavioral therapy and focused deterrence, an approach that calls for paying sustained attention to the small number of people at highest risk of committing violence."

In other words, violent crime is in freefall across the country thanks in large part to better, more targeted policing aimed at restoring law and order. The biggest threat to our renewed ability to combat crime might be a legacy media hamstrung by the baggage of prior anti-police animus.

Holden looks at the bright white evidence that apparently blinds the media from seeing the clues:

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The Democratic mayor of Memphis, Tennessee--long among the most violent places in America--welcomed a federal task force to the city in September. Federal agents provided additional capacity for local and state law enforcement to bring the necessary force to bear to combat crime. As even the New York Times admitted, "to date, the task force has made more than 6,300 arrests, conducted more than 68,000 traffic stops and recovered 1,532 firearms... crime rates, which had already been declining, have dropped even more since Oct. 1: Murder and sexual assault are down nearly 42 percent, while aggravated assault is down about 35 percent."

Similarly, Baltimore, Maryland, saw a 50-year low in murders in 2025. City officials credit federal support, more aggressive hiring efforts, and a focus on arresting repeat violent criminal offenders as a key source of the decline.

Read the whole thing. In case after case, crime is down because, get this, cops started enforcing the law, usually with federal help.

Relatedly: The Somali pirates who fleeced this country for billions and billions of stolen booty are angry that their piracy has been slowed and are demanding... reparations.

Brandon Straka #WalkAway
@BrandonStraka

Feb 20
SOMALI FRAUD: Somali migrants in Minnesota are demanding reparations over alleged trauma from law enforcement actions. After $10B in fraud, now they want more.

Tosca Austen @ToscaAusten

Feb 20

You've got to be joking!

Somalis in MN are demanding reparations for "ICE trauma" while 81% of their households are sucking up government welfare?

So here we are. We give them a new life, handouts galore--food stamps (54%), Medicaid (73%), cash welfare (27%)--and now they want MORE from hardworking Americans?

Americans should demand reparation for the taxpayer dollars that were stolen from welfare and SNAP schemes.

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