Police Chiefs Confirm: Trump Is (Mostly) Right On Crime

When accepting the Republican nomination in Cleveland last week, Donald Trump said:

Decades of progress made in bringing down crime are now being reversed by this administration’s rollback of criminal enforcement…. Homicides last year increased by 17{b163ed859cc9a16ba73837184ee02d2cdeccd9aa6dd670f1698634a383290a0c} in America’s fifty largest cities. That’s the largest increase in 25 years. In our nation’s capital, killings have risen by 50 percent. They are up nearly 60 percent in nearby Baltimore.

Trump’s claims have drawn the ire of many in the media and some elected officials. Just a few weeks ago, Trump and President Barack Obama squared off over what exactly is happening on American streets.

Read more at The Weekly Standard.