Sessions Credits Trump With Downtick In Violent Crime

Politico reports:

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is embracing newly-released FBI statistics as evidence that America has turned the tide in its battle against violent crime — a shift he credits in large part to the policies of President Donald Trump.

The FBI numbers, covering the first six months of 2017, show overall violent crime declined by 0.8 percent, with rape and robbery each declining by more than 2% compared to the same period in 2016.

Sessions said in an op-ed piece published Tuesday in USA Today that the report is evidence that Trump is delivering on the vow he made in his jarring inaugural speech last year to put an end to what he termed “American carnage.”

“It is a promise that he has kept,” Sessions declared. “Ensuring every neighborhood in America is safe again will take time, but we are already starting to see results.”