Column | The place crime obviously spiked since 2020? Trump's imagination.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : End of carouselSince he first emerged as a dominant force in Republican politics, Trump has suggested that crime is surging, or will surge under the leadership of whichever opponent is in his sights.
46% : Trump likes to ask if Americans better off than they were four years ago.
38% : Trump would have us focus on this self-reported measure of crime rather than actual crime data.
38% : No data from the FBI will dissuade Trump from claiming that crime has increased or is increasing; he had no non-anecdotal evidence to suggest that it had in the first place.
27% : Despite such elegant political rhetoric, Trump lost that election.
26% : Trump and his allies have pointed to a different metric, the Bureau of Justice Statistics' (BJS) measure of crime victimization.
25% : We should probably also note that Trump himself does not have a spotless criminal record.)
8% : As the 2020 presidential campaign unfolded, with Trump running for reelection, his campaign used imagery of criminal acts that had occurred during his own tenure to suggest that electing Joe Biden would somehow be worse.
6% : At his debate with Vice President Kamala Harris this month, Trump attempted to suggest that violent crime had risen under Biden's (and, by extension, Harris's) administration.

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