Preliminary 2023 FBI data “paint the picture” of a big decrease in overall crime across the United States, USA Today reports.
“That’s not the picture Trump and his supporters are painting on the campaign trail, with voters likely to hear plenty more in the coming months that attempts to cast President Joe Biden as weak on crime… Trump’s crime rhetoric has been escalating as he faces his own criminal jeopardy, with the former president arguing that prosecutors are ignoring the real crime problem in America to pursue a political ‘witch hunt’ against him.
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