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Monday, May 12, 2025

Preliminary data show homicides in the nation's largest cities fell by 21% in the first three months of 2025 from the same period of last year, as overall violent crime continued its post-pandemic drop.

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So, actually enforcing the law and deporting violent illegal alien, wife beating gang members results in a massive drop in crime. Who would have thought that?

At this point - every person with a brain knows that Democrats allowed the crime rate to spike intentionally because a population that is terrified of being a victim of violent crime is easier to control.

#1 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-05-12 06:17 AM | Reply

I don't think anyone is arguing that a drop in the murder rate is a bad thing. I don't know if doing it by implementing an authoritarian police state is a good way to do it. Maybe we could try developing a just, fair society with decent education and social services and see if that works out.

#2 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2025-05-12 07:12 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"Maybe we could try developing a just, fair society with decent education and social services and see if that works out.
#2 | Posted by TFDNihilist"

We tried that - it didn't work. When police were replaced with social workers and crime was ignored in deep blue -------- cities, it exploded. We clearly have a solution now - of course, the Democrats never wanted a solution to this problem so they will just keep complaining. Illegal border crossings down 99.9%, murder rate down 21%+. Promises made / Promises Kept.

#3 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-05-12 07:22 AM | Reply

"Nazism is good, actually" - MAGA

#4 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-05-12 08:18 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

We tried that...
#3 | Posted by ScottS

No we didn't.

#5 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2025-05-12 08:48 AM | Reply

"No we didn't.
#5 | Posted by TFDNihilist"

Yeah, we did. It did not work:

www.tpusa.com

#6 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-05-12 09:29 AM | Reply

No one can afford bullets.

#7 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-05-12 10:27 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

Illegal border crossings down 99.9%, murder rate down 21%+. Promises made / Promises Kept.

#3 | Posted by ScottS

Not even you believe your own stats.

#8 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-05-12 10:27 AM | Reply

"#8 | Posted by Sycophant"

I 100% believe them because they are true. The 21% is an understatement because --------- like NYC refuse to report their numbers but the rest is all detailed in the linked article.

As for 99.9% drop in illegals:

nypost.com

Promises made / Promises kept!

#9 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-05-12 10:40 AM | Reply

#6 | Posted by ScottS

I see nowhere in your article about increased social services, universal day care and health care, increased focus on education, etc. Just because the police are babies and refuse to do their job in a professional and competent manner that's not a substitution for a just society.
I said nothing in my original statement about defunding the police.

#10 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2025-05-12 10:48 AM | Reply

"I see nowhere in your article about increased social services
#10 | Posted by TFDNihilist"

Maybe you missed this part of the article:

"This week, the Seattle City Council passed a $7.4 billion budget which boasts an emphasis on "public safety," but cuts funding to the Seattle Police Department by eliminating 80 of the 200 officer positions that the city previously committed to hiring. The budget also allocates $4 million towards public school mental health counselors, $500 million for affordable housing to be dispersed over two years, but cuts Seattle Police Department funding once again."

#11 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-05-12 10:56 AM | Reply

FBI: 2020 homicides up nearly 30%, largest 1-year jump ever

Scatberg, your child-raping idol built that.

apnews.com

#12 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-05-12 11:06 AM | Reply

Q1...so before the mass ICE arrests took place.

Dark Brandon takes the credit.

#13 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-05-12 11:29 AM | Reply

Squats is still the same old whoever the ---- she was before she got banned.

#14 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-05-12 11:49 AM | Reply

I admit I only skimmed, I did miss that. Still a drop in the bucket. It would require a massive shift in public desire.
I never said anything about police budgets. Any reasonable civilization recognizes the need for police, but those that act in a professional and competent manner.
Once again, I am not saying your stats aren't good news, but the manner in which they are obtained is not the one I desire. You're turning future muggers into future prisoners, I prefer to turn them into future doctors. It can be done but the will is not there, especially among the present wealthy.

#15 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2025-05-12 12:20 PM | Reply

All Democrats and Biden have specialized in corrupt and foolish brainless lazy governance by using foolish sneaky tactics like blaming Trump to create TDS. Democrats prefer to focus on undermining common sense and citizens. They want Biden policies brought back. Why are Democrats unable to govern with fairness, forethought and efficiency for all the citizenry and people?

#16 | Posted by Robson at 2025-05-12 07:59 PM | Reply

@#1 ... So, actually enforcing the law and deporting violent illegal alien, wife beating gang members results in a massive drop in crime. ...

Concurrence or causality?


From the article your current alias cites ...

... Preliminary data show homicides in the nation's largest cities fell by 21% in the first three months of 2025 from the same period of last year, as overall violent crime continued its post-pandemic drop.

Why it matters: Stats compiled by the Major Cities Chiefs Association (MCCA) indicate that the COVID-era crime wave has almost faded away -- even as some officials, including President Trump, falsely claim that immigrants are driving increased crime rates. ...


What else yer got?


#17 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-12 08:09 PM | Reply

"the first three months of 2025"

Didn't Trump deport less people than Biden in his first three months?

#18 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-12 08:10 PM | Reply

@#18

That may be why Pres Trump is looking more towards deporting those who have not committed a serious crime, or even a crime, including American citizens.

He needs to get those deportation numbers up.

#19 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-12 09:12 PM | Reply

Immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than U.S.-born Americans, studies find (2024)
www.npr.org

... The murder of Laken Riley took center stage during Thursday night's State of the Union address. Riley was a 22-year-old student who was killed last month at the University of Georgia. The suspect in her murder is a Venezuelan migrant whom officials say was illegally in the U.S.

During the Republican rebuttal, Riley's murder was brought up by Alabama Sen. Katie Britt. "She was brutally murdered by one of the millions of illegal border crossers President Biden chose to release into our homeland. Y'all ... as a mom, I can't quit thinking about this. I mean, this could have been my daughter. This could have been yours."

The claim that immigration brings on a crime wave can be traced back to the first immigrants who arrived in the U.S. Ever since the 1980s and '90s, this false narrative saw a resurgence.

During the current presidential campaign, the vitriol has been intense. Just in the last few months, former President Donald Trump has spoken of immigrants as criminals and mentally ill people who are "poisoning the blood of our country." Florida Gov. (and former presidential candidate) Ron DeSantis said migrants suspected of carrying drugs across the border should be shot, without specifying how drug smugglers could be told apart from other migrants.

However, research indicates that immigrants commit less crimes than U.S.-born people. ...



#20 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-12 09:19 PM | Reply

"#20 | Posted by LampLighter"

All these retard studies rely on the criminals to self-report their immigration status and thus are useless. Only the Arizona study used law enforcement to confirm the actual immigration status and that study found undocumented immigrants are at least 142% more likely to be convicted of a crime than other Arizonans (U.S. citizens and legal residents combined).

Prison Population: From January 1985 to June 2017, undocumented immigrants, who made up ~2% of Arizona's population (ages 15"35), accounted for ~8% of the state prison population, implying a disproportionate incarceration rate.

Young Offenders: Young undocumented immigrants (15 to 35 years) commit crimes at twice the rate of young U.S. citizens, even after adjusting for age-related crime trends.

Refer to the 2018 report by John R. Lott Jr. of the Crime Prevention Research Center.

#21 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-05-12 09:26 PM | Reply

@#21 ... All these retard studies rely on the criminals to self-report their immigration status and thus are useless. ...

And your current aliis knows that ... how?

... Prison Population: From January 1985 to June 2017, undocumented immigrants, who made up ~2% of Arizona's population (ages 15"35), accounted for ~8% of the state prison population, implying a disproportionate incarceration rate. ...

Yep.

A disproportionate incarceration rate.

Not talking about the crime rate.

... Refer to the 2018 report by John R. Lott Jr. of the Crime Prevention Research Center. ...

This John R. Lott Jr?

Who Is John Lott and Why is He Claiming That More Guns Mean Less Crime?
vpc.org

What else yer got?



#22 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-12 09:50 PM | Reply

"@#21 ... All these retard studies rely on the criminals to self-report their immigration status and thus are useless. ...
And your current aliis knows that ... how?"

Because that is their stated methodology dipshit. The only one that actually confirms the data is the study I referenced.

"A disproportionate incarceration rate.
Not talking about the crime rate.
#22 | Posted by LampLighter "

Really? That is your talking point on this? Try harder dipshit.

#23 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-05-12 09:56 PM | Reply

@#23 ... the study I referenced. ..

"The study" or the opinion piece?

Given the author your current alias cites, I'm leaning more towards the latter.

... That is your talking point on this? ...

I note that your current alias has not provided anything besides ad hominem attacks to gainsay what I posted.


Immigrants are significantly less likely to commit crimes than the U.S.-born (2024)
news.northwestern.edu

... Study finds over a 150-year period, immigrants have never been incarcerated at a greater rate than those born in the United States ...

Some Americans believe that undocumented immigrants are a criminal threat to society. Former President Donald J. Trump has leveraged this assumption to inflame the rhetoric around immigration from the U.S.-Mexico border.

A study co-led by Northwestern University economist Elisa Jcome provides the first historical comparison of incarceration rates of immigrants to U.S.-born citizens.

Using incarceration rates as a proxy for crime, a team of economists analyzed 150 years of U.S. Census data and found immigrants were consistently less likely to be incarcerated than people born in the U.S.

They also found beginning in 1960, the incarceration gap widened such that immigrants today are 60% less likely to be incarcerated than the U.S.-born. ...




#24 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-12 10:19 PM | Reply

@#24 ... immigrants today are 60% less likely to be incarcerated than the U.S.-born ...

Wow.

#25 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-12 10:19 PM | Reply

Illegal border crossings down 99.9%, murder rate down 21%+. Promises made / Promises Kept.
#3 | Posted by ScottS
Not even you believe your own stats.
#8 | Posted by Sycophant"
I 100% believe them because they are true. The 21% is an understatement because --------- like NYC refuse to report their numbers but the rest is all detailed in the linked article.
As for 99.9% drop in illegals:
nypost.com

Promises made / Promises kept!
#9 | Posted by ScottS

Imagine being too stupid to even quote your own story...

Idiot.

That's RELEASED after being captured. That's not illegal border crossings where they aren't captured. Remember, you essentially ended Asylum. So now they all want to cross illegally rather than simply applying for asylum at a port of entry.

And the Murder Rate?

The murder rate has been declining since COVID, dummy. It dropped 16% in 2024. Biden sure must have been awesome.

Jesus Christ, you truly are the dumbest person on here.

#26 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-05-12 11:17 PM | Reply

Jesus Christ, even the headline is KEPT declining.

Hey idiots, how was the Murder rate declining year after year if its all the illegal Biden was letting it committing the crimes? I thought he was letting in millions a year? Shouldn't the murder rate go up?

How stupid are MAGAts? Apparently pretty god damn stupid. They shouldn't be allowed to breed...or vote...or leave their homes...

#27 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-05-12 11:19 PM | Reply

"#20 | Posted by LampLighter"

To end this debate once and for all and to stop you dipshits from mindless repeating headlines without understanding the studies themselves, I will provide the information for you. Feel free to double-check with Grok, ChatGPT, etc.

The NPR article you linked states 3 studies " these 3 studies are repeatedly used to make these false statements regarding illegal alien criminality.

1.) THE INCARCERATION GAP BETWEEN IMMIGRANTS AND THE US-BORN, 1870"2020 paper did not differentiate between legal and illegal immigrants. They used some proxy measures but did not actually use any database of actual data on criminality whereby immigration status was determined. No one is debating that legal immigrants commit crimes at much lower rates. Hell, I would go so far as to state illegal immigrants due to visa overstays probably commit crimes at lower rates. The main issue is illegal border crossers.

2.) CATO Institute 2019 report on Texas. This study used fingerprint data to determine immigration status. Any fingerprint that was not explicitly found in the prior immigration database (which is only collected via prior police encounters) was included as native born'. Thus, this study only correctly identifies illegal repeat offenders which are typically deported or change location so they do not re-offend in the same jurisdiction. In the case of CATO, they are basically classifying all illegal first-time offenders as native born' based upon their methodology so we are only really capturing illegal repeat offenders " and given that " the rates are shockingly high given deportation or changing jurisdiction.

3.) The Marshall Project " this did not even study relative rates of criminality between legal and illegal immigrants. It concluded that there was no surge in illegal criminality but their methodology actually makes this conclusion impossible. They used the data from the FBI UCR " which does not even state immigration status as well as the estimate for illegals in metro areas. In short, if crime decrease, they automatically assume it is due to lower immigrant crime " garbage study.

As I said previously, the ONLY study which systematically determined immigration status was the Arizona study " and that found illegal immigrants committing crimes at much higher rates than legal immigrants.

#28 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-05-12 11:23 PM | Reply

"It dropped 16% in 2024. Biden sure must have been awesome.
#26 | Posted by Sycophant"

yeah - and it dropped 21%+ under Trump including 36% in NYC. A drop of 21% is better than a drop of 16% in the murder rate everywhere but liberal bizarro world apparently.

#29 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-05-12 11:28 PM | Reply

@#29 ... yeah - and it dropped 21%+ under Trump including 36% in NYC. ...

So, a continuation of the post-COVID decline?

#30 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-12 11:41 PM | Reply

Ai bots (I mean ScottS) are really boring. Verbose, yet lifeless.

#31 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-05-12 11:42 PM | Reply

"It dropped 16% in 2024. Biden sure must have been awesome.
#26 | Posted by Sycophant"
yeah - and it dropped 21%+ under Trump including 36% in NYC. A drop of 21% is better than a drop of 16% in the murder rate everywhere but liberal bizarro world apparently.

#29 | Posted by ScottS

Moron.

That's Q1 compared to Q1 of 2024. It continued to drop all of 2024.

Wait...do you know how calendar's work?

But you sort of missed the IT'S BEEN DROPPING FOR YEARS bit. So it ain't the illegal immigrants.

But let me drop some facts on you...

Q1 2025: Down 21% from Q1 2024
Q1 2024: Down 26% from Q1 2023!
Dark Bradon wins again!

Why couldn't little Cheeto Jesus match Biden's drop rate? Is Biden just that much better than him? Poor little ScottS. Even his own stats say Biden was better. Poor baby.

#32 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-05-12 11:42 PM | Reply

Ai bots (I mean ScottS) are really boring. Verbose, yet lifeless.

#31 | Posted by REDIAL

ScottS is Bellringer/JeffJ.

Same pattern, same misquoted stats, same misquoted sources, same tactics, same stupid arguments.

#33 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-05-12 11:46 PM | Reply

@#28 ... To end this debate once and for all and to stop you dipshits from mindless repeating headlines without understanding the studies themselves ...

Looks like a whole lot of projection in that comment.

Stated differently, I was not the one who cited John R. Lott Jr as a valid source.


#34 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-12 11:48 PM | Reply

@#32 ... But you sort of missed the IT'S BEEN DROPPING FOR YEARS bit ...

Yup.


Claiming the stats proves it's opinion, when the stats actually seem to disprove its opinion.


So lame.

#35 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-12 11:50 PM | Reply

ScottS is Bellringer/JeffJ.

Probably the same committee alias.

#36 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-05-12 11:51 PM | Reply

What a weird way to be.

#37 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-13 12:09 AM | Reply

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