Biden's crime problem

 Power Line:

It’s now clear even to Joe Biden that the rise in violent crime poses a political problem for Democrats. The vote count in yesterday’s New York City mayoral primary reinforces that realization.

Thus, Biden has decided to address talk about violent crime.

Biden is in a bind. The normal response to a violent crime wave is the one he embraced in the 1990s and that worked so well — more policing and tougher sentencing. But Biden, having just finished apologizing to the Democratic base for this embrace, can’t go there again. He can’t even advocate backing away from policies that constrain the police and put criminals back on the street.

Thus, Biden will resort to the only item in the Democrats’ toolbox he can try to pass off as an anti-crime measure — gun control. The Washington Post quotes White House press secretary Jen Psaki as follows:

The president feels a lot — a great deal of the crime we’re seeing — is as a result of gun violence. You can expect he’ll speak to that and his commitment to continuing to address gun violence and gun safety in the country.

Well, yeah, a great deal of violent crime is the result of gun violence. But that doesn’t mean speaking about guns will reduce the violence. Nor does it mean that passing more gun control legislation would do so. Nor, even if it could, would that effect take hold in the short term.

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What Biden proposes to do is to disarm the innocent.  The crooks will still have their weapons and will still use them.   The main reason for the increase in crime is that Democrat-controlled cities have been defunding the police and pulling them back from patrolling certain neighborhoods.  From Austin to NY City this has been happening and it is further compounded by Soros-backed DAs who refuse to prosecute criminals and no bail laws that keep turning the perps loose.