Chris Wallace of “Fox News Sunday” questioned a top assistant to President Joe Biden about the country’s growing crime rates and how requests from some progressives to cut funding to police departments may have caused the tendency.
In response to Senator Lindsey Graham’s criticism of Biden this week, Wallace questioned Cedric Richmond, a top White House adviser, if Graham had “a point” when he attacked Biden’s crime strategy, The Hill reports.
According to Graham, “There is a lack of prosecution in our country. We’ve declared war on the cops, and it’s backfiring on the perpetrators.”
Wallace started pressing Richmond, who had suggested earlier that a “plethora” of illegal guns on the streets is also contributing to rising crime rates, saying that even if the president does not support defunding the police, a number of significant cities in the United States have seen mass retirements and have reduced their funding levels for police in recent months.
Wallace referenced a research that found that more than 90% of those detained during the riots that erupted in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death had their cases dismissed.
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