Donald Trump recently came to Michigan and said: “You can’t walk across the street to get a loaf of bread. You get shot, you get mugged, you get raped."
But NBC News came to Detroit recently to talk with Police Chief James White, who said:
"That’s simply not true. I invite him to walk the streets of Detroit, and I’d be more than happy to do that with him and show him how Detroit is performing.”
“I don’t think there’s a chief in America that will tell you, we can all go home now, crime has ended in our communities. But when we compare where we are today, where we were yesterday, and where we were last year, and certainly where we were during the pandemic, we have reduced crime in the city of Detroit.”
"We’re not going to tear our rotator cuff patting ourselves on the back, either. We’ve got a lot of crime in our city, a lot of violent crime, and we’ve got a lot of folks who are using guns to resolve relatively simple disputes.”
NBC reports:
Detroit has experienced a dramatic drop in murders, shootings and other violent crime in recent years, according to city, state and federal statistics. After surging during the pandemic, rates of violent crime have dropped back to where they were in 2019, the numbers show — dramatically lower than they were 10 and 20 years ago. Detroit had 252 homicides last year, the lowest number since 1966.