Attorney General Jeff Session Lies About the Murder Rate

The Bigoted Jeff is Living Up to Expectations

Statistics are the enemy of the conservatives. See statistics are fact. Conservatives hate facts because conservative ideology can only exists in a fantasy world. So here is Attorney General Jeff Session talking about the murder rate.

PRESIDENT TRUMP rode a claim of out-of-control crime — to be fought with “law and order” — to victory in 2016. He reinforced the message in his inaugural address about “American carnage.” So it’s no surprise that Attorney General Jeff Sessions harps on the same theme, most recently on Wednesday, when he issued a statementdescribing this as a “time of rising violent crime [and] a staggering increase in homicides.”

And here is the headline, the truth from the conservative Wall Street Journal where parts of the paper epitomize real journalism.

Big-City Murders Drop to Historic Lows

And here are some info to support the thing that Sessions is afraid, that is, the truth.

"In New York, murders dropped to 290, a number not seen since 1951, police say, and killings in Los Angeles were at 281, staying below 300 for the eighth consecutive year, according to data from the police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Even Chicago, where ragged violence has shocked the nation, saw murders fall to 650 in 2017, down from 771 in 2016, police say.

Seven of the 10 largest U.S. cities saw declines in 2017, according to police; one saw an increase, and two didn’t have final data."