When mayors from the nation’s biggest cities gathered for a conference in Washington, they boasted about having a handle on the violent crime crisis that’s exploded on their watch.
They are now on course to make their streets safer, they said.
The mayors, who are almost all Democrats, placed the blame for the runaway violence and lawlessness in their communities on the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic and the availability of guns.
“Generally, it’s gun violence. Crime is about the same as it was or a little bit less. But gun violence is terrible,” Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, a Democrat, told The Washington Times.