Presidential campaigns make competing claims on crime [Video]

Presidential campaigns are making competing claims about crime trends as polling suggests it’s a priority for a growing number of Americans. At a recent event in Michigan, surrounded by law enforcement, former President Donald Trump said, “We are going to stop the Kamala crime wave that is going on at levels that nobody has ever seen before.” Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, has been routinely countering that narrative in his stump speeches.”Make no mistake, violent crime was up during Donald Trump’s presidency,” Walz told a crowd in Detroit earlier this month.Much like the presidential campaigns, federal data is sending mixed messages. The federal government has two primary strategies for measuring the crime rate. Experts say there are gaps in both data sets and the statistics lag. The most recent annual data is from 2022. “All of those things make it hard to say definitively what …