Crime in the US decreasing from a ‘catastrophic baseline’

Newsweek senior editor-at-large Josh Hammer highlights how crime in the United States has been decreasing from a “catastrophic baseline” when President Joe Biden took office. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre claimed under Joe Biden’s leadership, violent crime is at a nearly 50-year low. “Thanks to the extraordinary efforts of law enforcement and community leaders … Americans are safer from violent crime today than they were a year ago,” she said. Mr Hammer hit out at the “gaslighting” being done by the Biden administration. “America was essentially a crime cesspool for 2020 into 2021,” he told Sky News host Rita Panahi. “So that is relevant when you're talking about crime decreasing because it's all relative to where you started.”