In July, Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. penned a piece titled “The good news about murder,” purporting to explain how and why violent crime rates rose during the pandemic years but have drastically fallen since. The problem? In his column, he conspicuously ignores the pre-pandemic crime spikes in cities with “progressive” policies and conveniently memory-holes the pro-criminal policies of elected George Soros-backed rogue prosecutors and anti-police lawmakers. In failing to seriously consider, much less acknowledge, the impact of the rogue prosecutor movement (which began in 2016) and anti-police measures like police defunding (which also began well before the pandemic), Dionne’s piece distorts beyond recognition the causes and effects of the…

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