Crime surges impacted New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Los Angeles and New Orleans in 2022, based on law enforcement data.
Experts partially blamed liberal prosecutors who did not pursue charges in many criminal cases.
“Crime, overall, has been increasing in cities like New York and Chicago in part because of decreases in policing, prosecution and incarceration,” Manhattan Institute Fellow Hannah Meyers told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Crime increases hit many of America’s largest cities in 2022, according to police, with experts holding liberal prosecutors partly responsible.
Some crimes rose as murders or homicides fell in New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia and Los Angeles compared to 2021, with robberies surging in New Orleans and San Francisco, law enforcement data showed. Heritage Foundation Senior Legal Fellow Cully Stimson told the Daily Caller News Foundation that crime has “exploded” since 2015 in cities with George Soros-inspired prosecutors, “defund the police” rhetoric or cuts and police demoralization.
New York City’s year-to-date murder complaints through Dec. 25 decreased, while rapes, robberies, felony assault and burglary, grand larceny and grand larceny auto complaints rose, police data showed. Manhattan Institute Fellow Hannah Meyers said “policing, prosecution and incarceration” decreases have contributed to overall rising crime in cities like New York.

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