Fox News' Alexandria Hoff reports the latest from Washington, D.C.

The re-election campaign for President Joe Biden is spending significant bandwidth trying to rehabilitate his poor reputation on the subject of crime and criminal justice policy, and for good reason. Recent polling shows that more than half of the country is dissatisfied with how the president handles crime.

First, the president hosted a White House event attended by major city police chiefs where he touted and claimed credit for recent dips in violent crime. Biden also inaccurately boasted to the entire nation in his State of the Union that his administration gave communities the tools to crack down on crime. Both were transparent attempts to score political points during an election year.

Let’s give credit where credit is due. Yes, it’s encouraging that crime is beginning to drop after historic increases during the pandemic, but the Biden administration’s big government, free-spending blank checks were not the hero of the day. What makes communities safer is the actions of law enforcement, community leaders and local governments.

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