Breaking the Crime Wave | City Journal
The nationwide surge in violent crime that started last year and continues today is far worse and more pervasive than anything during the Obama years. Indeed, this level of violence would have been nearly unimaginable five short years ago.
Last year, the United States experienced the largest single-year increase in murder on record and the most drug-overdose deaths in our nation s history. Murder nationwide rose by an astonishing 25 percent, aggravated assaults increased in 56 of the 66 largest American cities, and 88,000 Americans lost their lives to drug overdoses.
As I predicted, the murder rate has now reached the highest level since the mid-1990s.
Remarks by Sen. Tom Cotton at the National Press Club.