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Last year, nearly 100,000 people died from violence-related deaths. It is not in Gaza or Ukraine. It’s in the United States. die Opioids like fentanyl The total number of murders was less than 100,000, down from the previous year. The war is in the United States.
These numbers are separate families; children are lost; communities are unsafe. These overall statistics are the regions with the highest losses, five times and ten times the national average. It’s not about politics, it’s about American life.
Denying this reality is one of the huge scandals of our time, why so far have done very little to do so. Every life is precious, and it’s big news, when a fanatic shoots the church, the equivalent of this happening multiple times a day in many places and seems to be hidden from public consciousness.
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The Illinois governor said they were under control of crimes and did not require any federal help. Last year, nearly 800 people were murdered in Cook County. Another 1,000 people died from drug overdose. There are about five people every day. There is nothing to see. Cook County There may not be the highest crime rate (this is reserved for St. Louis, which is the highest murder rate in any major city), but the highest death toll per year.

Metro Transit police and homeland security investigators searched Washington, DC on August 13, 2025 for vehicles of people with detained driver’s license issues. (Reuters/Ken Sedno)
President Donald Trump does some powerful Measures to close the border, Threat China and other countries, taking over policing in Washington, D.C. as fentanyl, he strives to end the hidden war that killed so many.
Early signs indicate that his approach is trembling and is working to attack the problem that the Biden administration is largely allowed to worsen. The focus on policy is to ignore borders and make everything understand racial equality and climate change. The numbers may have fallen since the post-pandemic surge, but they are still too high.
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To his credit, Trump is committed organized crime at the border. Cartel And street crime has infected many cities. The border is closed, even Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser Recognizing that these measures have reduced crime, taken guns from the streets and reduced carjacking. Almost overnight, it made the country’s capital safer, proving that we don’t have to sit here and let our inner city be written off.
We can go straight to the core, repeat criminals who have been allowed to use the system over the past few years. A criminal in Washington, D.C. last week began yelling as he was proud of the rap table Al Capone would have been, but he was taken away. Maybe not this time.
The democratic response is Whispers about “authoritarianism”. California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom Taking off your gloves. When I worked with him, it wasn’t what President Bill Clinton did – he made stopping crime and creating the safest big city in the world a key goal.
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Instead, Democrats should reach out to find solutions to these problems – they should ask to go to the Oval Office and solve the problems they have crime Continue as usual. However, this may provide some recognition to Trump and the opposition, which is not done in today’s world. So they keep the foundation with harsh words even in the absence of problems.
What is lost in this political struggle is the life and family involved. Eight thousand people are killed here every month by drug overdoses and murders. However, there will be no protests on campus. There is no sign of “saving lives”. No posters of carjacking victims. But the president is on these issues – Democrats need to find a way to join the movement, rather than resist completely.
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