We know how to fight crime. Put law enforcement on the street. Patrol high crime areas. Arrest and lock up criminals.

Despite the plethora of courses, think tanks and experts amounting to a multi-billion dollar industry, the solutions are time-tested common stuff that are immediately dismissed by liberals and leftists as ‘backward’ and ‘reactionary’.

Does putting troops on the streets work? Of course it does. Criminals don’t like taking on soldiers. So they’re going to lie low.

Violent crime is down 49%. Robberies are down 62%. Car thefts are down 35%.

What made all that happen? It’s a ‘mystery’.

Identifying the specific causes of changes in criminal activity is complex because it can be driven by many factors – and local police data was already showing that reported crimes were trending downward in Washington prior to the president’s action.

Why would violent crime suddenly be cut in half? It’s complex.

The problem is that the National Guard can’t be deployed in every city and D.C. judges and juries aren’t going to throw the book at them. Illegal alien criminals can be deported, but the rest will be more of a challenge, and you can’t just put troops into every major city indefinitely. There’s no solution without either federalizing local justice systems (more doable in D.C. than in Chicago or New York City) or rebuilding justice systems nationwide by ending the pro-crime movement and making federal grants conditional on an end to pro-crime measures like diversion programs, refusal to prosecute certain crime, cashless bail, etc… The only answer to crime is to reopen the prisons. And fill them with criminals. Period.