{"id":1839054,"date":"2023-02-08T00:04:53","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T05:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1839054"},"modified":"2023-02-08T00:06:42","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T05:06:42","slug":"fact-check-biden-says-covid-caused-the-2020-crime-spike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-biden-says-covid-caused-the-2020-crime-spike\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Biden Says COVID Caused The 2020 Crime Spike"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-biden-says-covid-caused-the-2020-crime-spike%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1839054&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Claim: The crime spike was caused by COVID<\/p>\n<p>It was President Joe Biden&#8217;s State of the Union speech on Tuesday night. President Obama said that the president was among the &#8220;scars&#8221; The pandemic left a lasting impact on the country. &#8220;the spike in violent crime in 2020, the first year of the pandemic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Why it matters: Since the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, violent crime has exploded. Democrats have tried to put the blame on the pandemic and not their policies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Context: America is currently experiencing a major crime surge. Homicides surged by 30 percent between 2019 and 2020\u2013the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2021\/10\/27\/what-we-know-about-the-increase-in-u-s-murders-in-2020\/\">The largest single-year gain<\/a> on record\u2014and violent crime remains well above its pre-pandemic levels.<\/p>\n<p>These trends are part of a broader trend set. <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/policy\/the-return-of-jailbreak-liberalism\/\">Revitalization<\/a> Prisonbreak Liberalism <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/chicagos-reform-minded-da-lets-gunman-off-easy-after-killing-a-man-and-wounding-a-bystander\/\">Soros-backed prosecutors<\/a> have let violent criminals off easy in <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/chicagos-reform-minded-da-lets-gunman-off-easy-after-killing-a-man-and-wounding-a-bystander\/\">Chicago<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/street-justice-los-angeles-has-become-wild-west-under-soft-on-crime-prosecutor\/\">Los Angeles<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/why-is-larry-krasner-giving-young-adults-a-free-pass\">Philadelphia<\/a>, and countless other cities. The Democrat-dominated D.C Council <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/d-c-council-overrides-mayors-veto-lightens-sentencing-for-carjackings-gun-crimes\/\">voted in January<\/a> to reduce sentences for car-jacking, robberies, and gun-related felonies. Obama era civil rights policies have <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/how-the-lefts-equity-obsession-enabled-a-virginia-school-shooting\/\">made schools reluctant<\/a> to discipline and flag potentially dangerous students, which may be why a Virginia elementary school ignored warnings that a six-year-old was brandishing a gun.<\/p>\n<p>Cops are also <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/courts\/the-legal-precedents-that-haunt-uvalde\/\">quitting in droves<\/a> amid an unprecedented moral crisis\u2014one many observers blame on the leftwing vilification of the police\u2014driving up 911 response times as active shooter incidents reach a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/file-repository\/active-shooter-incidents-in-the-us-2021-052422.pdf\/view\">20-year high<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The murder rate did decline slightly in 2022, but other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/09\/23\/briefing\/crime-rates-murder-robberies-us.html\">forms of crime increased.<\/a> All this has increased voters\u2019 anxiety about crime\u201461 percent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2022\/10\/31\/violent-crime-is-a-key-midterm-voting-issue-but-what-does-the-data-say\/\">told Pew<\/a> it was a &#8220;very important&#8221; issue when deciding how to vote in the midterms\u2014and supercharged surveillance efforts: New York City announced in September that it would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/09\/20\/nyregion\/nyc-subway-security-cameras.html\">install two security cameras<\/a> on every Subway car to reassure riders of their safety.<\/p>\n<p>Analysis: There is no evidence that COVID contributed significantly to the crime spike. For one thing, most countries around the world saw a marked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41562-021-01139-z\">decrease in crime<\/a> during their stay-at-home orders; the United States was an exception, suggesting that the crime spike was due to other factors.<\/p>\n<p>It is also difficult to attribute the surge to the economic hardship caused by COVID. Recessions are not correlated with homicide rates, and\u2014as many progressives have noted in their attempt to downplay the crime spike\u2014property offenses <a href=\"https:\/\/counciloncj.org\/mid-year-2022-crime-trends\/\">declined<\/a> during the pandemic, when the economy was weakest. Thefts and robberies only began climbing again in 2022 after Biden\u2019s much-vaunted economic recovery. These are not the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claim: COVID caused the crime spike Who said it: President Joe Biden in his State of the Union address on Tuesday night. The president said that among the &#8220;scars&#8221; left on the country by the pandemic was &#8220;the spike in violent crime in 2020, the first year of the pandemic.&#8221; Why it matters: Ever since [\u2026]<br \/>\nThe post FACT CHECK: Biden Says COVID Caused The 2020 Crime Spike appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":184,"featured_media":165069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[3652,3620,11357,5335,4127,7204,7516],"class_list":["post-1839054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-3652","tag-biden","tag-caused","tag-check","tag-covid","tag-crime","tag-spike"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/184"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1839054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1839054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1839054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1839054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}