New Report Contradicts Harris Campaign's, Biden Claims Crime's Fallen in Last 3 Years

House Judiciary Committee links Democrat policies to increased crime

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Texas Insider Report) — “It is clear that the root causes of the uptick in crime over the last several years are the pro-criminal policies implemented in Major Urban Areas, and the refusal of rogue prosecutors to enforce the laws on the books. The Committee and the Subcommittee will continue to conduct oversight of the rise in violent crime in the United States,” says a just released investigative report by the House Judiciary Committee, which details its findings of violent and nonviolent crime spikes in major Democrat-led cities following the “Defund the Police” movement, and liberal “rogue prosecutors” downgrading or ignoring serious crimes.

The 154-page House Committee Report, entitled "Violence in America: How the Pro-Criminal, Anti-Law Enforcement Policies Embraced by the Biden-Harris Administration Endanger All Americans," details findings on how – under the Biden-Harris White House – crime increased in major cities.
 
The data contradicts claims by the Biden White House and Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign that crime has fallen in the last three years.
  The report argues that when Democrats embraced the "defund-the-police" movement in 2020, it led to a major spike in crimes in subsequent years.
 
The committee details, for example, how:
 

• In New York City, after the Police Budget was slashed by $1 billion in 2020,
  • major crimes surged by 23% in 2022 compared to 2021.
• In the nation's capital of Washington D.C., after the Police Budget was cut by $15 million in 2021,
  • two years later the District saw a 39% increase in violent crime, and
  • a 24% increase in property crime when compared to 2022.

The report further details how far-left prosecutors pushed “pro-criminal policies” by refusing to prosecute certain categories of crimes, such as:
 

• Shoplifting or Juvenile Crime,
• Failing to prosecute Firearm Offenses,
• Systemically downgrading Felonies to Misdemeanors, and
• Refusing to request Bail for Criminals.

The committee's report also described how bail reform laws implemented in Democrat-led cities – which either eliminated cash bail altogether, or significantly restricted the ability of state and local judges to impose constraints – created a “revolving door for criminals to reoffend.”

Those reforms, the reports said, led to high rates of recidivism in major cities that often strained already thin police resources.
 

• Illinois, for example, became the first state to eliminate cash bail with its SAFE-T law in 2023 after the state Supreme Court ruled it was constitutional.
• The District eliminated cash bail in the early 1990s, and has since seen roughly 94% of individuals with criminal charges not being detained before trial, according to the report.

Democrat-allied groups worked to elect far-left prosecutors in cities such as New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and the District of Columbia, and those prosecutors and local leaders implemented policies or reductions in police funding that led to an uptick in violent and nonviolent crime, the report concluded.

Since holding its investigative hearings, the committee has advanced or passed numerous pieces of legislation through the U.S. House of Representatives directly related to its findings, including:
 

• the Pretrial Release Reporting Act,
• the Recruit and Retain Act, and
• the Improving Law Enforcement Officer Safety & Wellness Through Data Act

All are awaiting action by the U.S. Senate, and none have become law.