President Donald Trump speaks from the Oval Office, touting his Washington, D.C., crime crackdown and naming Chicago as the next city he plans to clean up.

President Donald Trump wants to drive down crime in some of our most dangerous cities. Democrats are furious, coming down hard — once again — on the wrong side of an issue that affects millions of Americans.

Why would the leaders of high-crime cities like Washington and Chicago object to the president helping to make their streets safer? They are panicked that Trump will succeed, exposing them as the inept, corrupt leaders they truly are.

For decades, Democrats have struggled to overcome GOP accusations that they were "soft on crime." In 1994, trying to combat that charge, President Bill Clinton signed into law the most sweeping anti-crime bill in history. It funded the hiring of 100,000 new police officers, authorized the construction of new prisons and introduced a "three-strikes" law mandating lengthy jail terms for repeat offenders.

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That was Democrats’ high-water mark for cracking down on crime. In recent years, party leaders, including former President Joe Biden, have apologized for the 1994 crime bill, now considered by the left to be racist and overly harsh. Especially in the post-George Floyd era, Democrats have adopted policies such as defunding the police and no-bail reform, which have made our cities more dangerous and favor criminals over citizens.

President Trump is trying to reverse course. He is threatening to send troops to violence-prone cities and has just signed an executive order to eliminate cashless bail, a policy that sends criminals back onto the streets, often to offend again.

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