Morning Joe just asked

[safeinOhio]

Are you safer than you were 4 years ago? When tRump took office, crime was at a 10 year low.

[Trumpocalypse]

1. Poverty increases crime

It is a proven correlation.

[SheltieLover]

3. Absolutely!

[KS Toronado]

19. Yes it does, that's why we need a $15 minimum wage, to help people out of poverty.

Get more people out of poverty and we'll need fewer prisons, a real win-win for everybody.
Less crime should also mean we need fewer police out on the streets.

[Cetacea]

21. +1000 n/t

[North Shore Chicago]

2. Yes!, to poster #1

When you deny, diminish people who already have little hope, there will be problems. People left with no choice but to take just to survive is not a civil society.

[niyad]

5. We need to discuss white collar crime as well. This layer of society sees nothing but opportunity

When others are frightened and desperate, and, having created the situation, benefit from it.

[DeminPennswoods]

15. Read a story recently that

white collar crimes prosecutions are now at an all time low. Why am I not surprised?

[North Shore Chicago]

17. Indeed

[CaptYossarian]

4. We're never safe from white-collar crime.

[niyad]

6. I see that both our minds went there.

[Marcuse]

7. The real looters are in the financial-industrial complex.

[CaptYossarian]

9. About 30 years ago, there was a Don Henley song that said "you can steal more money

with a briefcase than with a gun". That was during the (little bit) more innocent Reagan years.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

8. No. Gun ownership has increased and public fear and division has increased.

That's a lethal combination.......

KY

[bucolic_frolic]

10. That thought should not get buried

[DeeDeeNY]

11. Not to mention

The health of the planet is also less safe

[Rebl2]

12. Are you

safer than you were a short four months ago?!

[overleft]

13. Go to city-data.com and look at the crime rates for cities across the nation. Most have went up

since 2016. some dramatically.

[AllaN01Bear]

14. hell no.

[eppur_se_muova]

16. Most of the increase has come from within the administration. nt

[DallasNE]

18. Crime Was At A 10 Year Low

Even with population growth because the economy was in great shape and our future looked bright. Sure, the job was still unfinished but it was headed in the right direction. But Trump had other ideas, most not very bright, so here we are today. With millions being food insecure crime has predictably spiked and Trump offers nothing that would change that trajectory. The question is a good one.

[calimary]

20. YOU helped build this, Joe Scarborough.

YOU. Mr. GOP.

[Bluepinky]

22. It's coming from inside the house (the White House, that is).

This is the dirtiest, most corrupt administration in our country’s history.

What I want to say to Trump et al: Get out of my house and crawl back into the swamp you came from!