Democrats Shrug Off Crime as Their Cities Implode
Commentary
Democrats have no solutions to today’s crime surge. Here’s how they shrug off the mayhem.
First: Deep denial.
Through Sept. 27, New Orleans suffered 208 homicides, up 44 percent versus that period in 2021 and 141 percent in 2019. The Crescent City has become America’s Murder Capital.
“I do not embrace that at all,” said Democrat Mayor La Toya Cantrell. “It isn’t based on what’s happening on the ground.” She later said that “our city is safer than it’s been in a long time.”
Crime books can be cooked: Curbing arrests can “erase” lawlessness by leaving it unrecorded. But there’s no faking a cadaver. Regardless, Cantrell scoffs at humiliating police data….