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DonaldĀ Trump on Sunday proposed a new policy that many critics said is equivalent to legalizing āThe Purge.ā
Trump spoke at a rally in Pennsylvania, where heĀ admitted that his attendees were āfalling asleepā at one of his earlier rallies. Vice PresidentĀ Kamala Harrisā campaign noted that, as Trump was still speaking at the swing-state event over the weekend,Ā rallygoers placed directly behind the former president started to funnel out of the building.
One comment Trump made drew condemnation on social media, as well as numerous comparisons to The Purge, a film series based on a dystopian world in which the government makes all crimes legal for a 12-hour period.
As reported byĀ Sebastian Smith,Ā AFP Washington desk chief, āTrump in Erie, PA, says in US āthe police arenāt allowed to do their job.ā To stop crime, you need āone really violent day.ā He says: āOne rough hour and I mean real rough, the word would get out and it would end immediately.āā
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Well, it DID increase for a bit, but has been dropping since 2023.
For a bit and then a rapid drop. The point is that crime rates have been crashing since the 90s and these people keep telling us that crime is up. They either donāt know that or they are lying to us to knowingly manipulate people and not enough of them get called out on it.
It increased because of the pandemic, which was an outlier year.
It was a rather local maximum, though.