Murder rates drop for third year in a row as Trump complains nation is 'breaking down'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

26% : Although Trump declared in a Truth Social post Thursday that the U.S. is "breaking down" with violence, blaming the current administration's "open borders," data shows that rates of violent crime and murder actually plummeted in 2024.
26% : Throughout his 2024 campaign, Trump has made unsubstantiated claims about the nation's crime rate, at one point claiming that the "crime wave" going on at levels "nobody has ever seen before," which is not supported by data.
15% : On Wednesday in the hours after the attack, Trump wrote on Truth Social: "When I said that the criminals coming in are far worse than the criminals we have in our country, that statement was constantly refuted by Democrats and the Fake News Media, but it turned out to be true.
15% : Trump alluded to these details in a separate post on Thursday, once again placing blame the Biden administration's immigration policies.

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