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The Bob Cesca Show: Incredible Trouble

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ObserverArt10/06/2017 11:10:41 am PDT

re: #223 lawhawk

What’s particularly galling is that someone like Trump calls crime out of control and spiking and “carnage” when crime is at historic and historical lows not seen in decades (either in raw or per capita sense).

We’re safer than ever, even accounting for the mass shootings and terrorism threats. But Trump, GOP, and NRA can’t sell guns if people realize that things are indeed safer.

Here in the NYC metro area, the NYPD keeps weekly stats on these things, and compares the current year to the past year, and then back to 2001, 1998, 1998, 1993, and 1990.

Murder has dropped from 2,263 in 1990 to 335 last year. That’s going from having nearly 7 murders a day to less than 1 even as population has increased.

Blood and guts…one of the oldest political tricks/cons in the playbook. You don’t need facts to scare people.

And Trump loved all those old tricks because he grew up with them and realized he could make them work again with Tweets and all the free coverage he got from the TV networks just by being outrageous.