Kerby Anderson

Here is an encouraging statistic. The murder rate in our country is plummeting. We still have half of the year left, but if the trend continues, FBI Director Kash Patel says the U.S. is on track to have the lowest murder rate ever.

John Lott is the president of the Crime Prevention Research Center and has been on the Point of View radio program many times. He has two explanations. First, law enforcement matters. Second, deporting criminal illegal aliens has an impact.

The FBI Director has been telling law enforcement, “I’m gonna let you, the agents, the police officers, the sheriffs, go out there and do the work you so badly want to do. And I’m gonna give you the resources you need to do it.” He decided to move a third of the FBI agents in the D.C. area to places across the country where crime is occurring.

This is different from the previous administration where FBI agents were sometimes focused on non-criminal activities of conservative Catholics or parents speaking out at school board meetings. John Lott has a simple explanation: when you let law enforcement catch criminals, it makes it riskier for criminals to commit crime. You end up getting less crime.

Deporting criminal illegal aliens also has lowered the crime rate. Many of them already have criminal backgrounds but were nevertheless released into society. He also mentions that the deportations are forcing illegal aliens to lay low. When you fear an ICE roundup, you are more likely to stay home.

John Lott concludes, “Reducing crime isn’t rocket science. If you make it riskier for criminals to commit crime, you will get less crime.” No, it isn’t that complicated. If you want less crime, put more police in the streets and take more criminals off the streets.