Vice President Harris has spent her career fighting for safer communities, enforcing our laws, and putting criminals in jail. Under the Biden-Harris administration, crime is down to historic lows. On Donald Trump’s watch, the murder rate skyrocketed – the largest increase in more than 100 years.
FACT: Violent crime is down under Vice President Harris.
- Under this Administration, violent crime fell to a near 50-year low, murder rates fell 13% nationally, and plummeted in major cities. This trend continues in 2024, with violent crime and murder rates plunging even lower across the country.
- President Biden and Vice President Harris have taken decisive action and passed historic legislation to keep guns out of the hands of violent criminals, to fight crime in our communities, to seize record levels of illicit fentanyl at our ports of entry, and to secure our border and address illicit crossings.
- Trump’s claims that countries are sending people from jails and insane asylums to the United States are baseless and false, and “there is no evidence of a migrant-driven crime wave in the United States.”
FACT: Trump killed a bipartisan bill to secure our border. Meanwhile, Vice President Harris is fighting to secure the border and border crossings have plummeted.
- Trump tanked a bipartisan border bill that was endorsed by the Border Patrol union, siding with drug traffickers and criminals to kill a bipartisan bill to make our borders more secure – all because he thought it’d help him politically.
- Border crossings are at their lowest level since 2020. This Administration’s executive actions to secure the border have lowered border crossings.
FACT: Donald Trump tried to gut law enforcement funding, violent crime skyrocketed on his watch, and a second term would be even more dangerous.
- Trump tried to cut funding for law enforcement in every one of his budgets, including a proposed $300 million cut to local law enforcement funding and a 58 percent cut to the COPS Hiring Program for police departments.
- Donald Trump oversaw the largest single-year spike in the murder rate in more than a century and made the opioid crisis worse, with watchdogs inside his own administration saying Trump failed to come up with a coherent national opioid strategy.
- In a second term, Trump would defund federal law enforcement, use the FBI and Justice Department to go after his political enemies, and withhold federal funding from local police departments that don’t adopt policies like stop-and-frisk or assist in mass deportations.
- Donald Trump is a convicted felon and has been found liable for sexual assault – and has promised to pardon violent rioters who attacked law enforcement and stormed the Capitol on January 6.
- JD Vance said, “I hate the police.”
