On Friday, Obama referred to the 17% homicide increase last year as an “uptick”. Donald Trump’s “vision of violence and chaos everywhere” does not reflect the experience of most Americans, Barack Obama told reporters on Friday. A justice department-funded study of 2015 homicide trends concluded that the increase Trump cited is statistically significant, “real and nearly unprecedented”. As the president argued, the broader picture of spiraling violence Trump painted in his convention speech on Thursday night does not “jibe” with the actual data on crime trends. But, she wrote in an e-mail, “Trump is on less certain ground in attributing the crime increase to ‘this administration’s rollback of criminal enforcement’.

Source: The Guardian July 23, 2016 09:56 UTC