Screwing Things Up On Purpose

Look, one shouldn't think that a rising crime rate is an accident. Yes of course part of it is due to a weakening economy, but a another cause is the deliberate effort by Republicans to weaken successful anti-crime programs. Why would they want to something so nutty? Because if the crime rate goes up, they can try to scare white suburbanites about the "scary brown people" again. They've been very grumpy about losing the "crime issue", you see......