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Crime Ideology and Legacy

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10.01.2026

Chris Kemble ——Bio and Archives--January 10, 2026

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Crime is up significantly since Obama launched his War on Cops in 2014. Soon after, the Rogue Prosecutor Movement began its own war on the courts. Clearance rates for crime have decreased, with violent crime clearance rates cut in half in big cities. Homicide clearance rates continue to plummet. Crime victimization surveys show that even more crime is going unreported. Major municipalities are not reporting their crime data to the FBI. The FBI had to revise the crime rates much higher for 2024.

The bad olden days of daily stories of criminals with long records committing horrific crimes, have returned. The Truth-in-Sentencing (TiS) revolution from 30 years ago has been significantly rolled back. The Left has run an attack campaign for decades, calling the criminal justice system broken and insulting it as the prison-industrial complex or the carceral state, and calling for its abolishment. Their mass incarceration fiction campaigns hide the facts, and their published histories omit the 1960s. Leftists talk endlessly about incarceration without ever mentioning that the crime came years before and is much higher.

Leftists dominate the internet with fiction. The progressive disinformation industry is not the Democrat Party or the partisan........

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