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Thursday, April 21, 2022

Commentary: Democrats Can’t Hide from Their Record on Defund the Police

In January, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki mocked those concerned about crime, laughing and flippantly asking “soft on crime consequences…what does that even mean?” 

For Tennesseans, it means 346 homicides in Memphis last year alone, the deadliest year on record for drug overdoses in Nashville at 712 reported overdoses, and more lives at risk from senseless violence.

For Americans across the country, it means at least sixteen Democrat-run cities broke annual homicide records last year, the number of brazen carjackings surged, 346 law enforcement officers were shot in the line of duty in 2021, and the murder rate soared to the highest it’s been in nearly two and a half decades.