Crime is becoming one of America's biggest political issues


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(CNN)The post-reopening murder wave is about to become a major subject of conversation. Murders have gone up in 2021, and the summer -- high season for homicide -- is just getting started.

This new societal crisis is already turning political:
  • President Joe Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland announced new measures Wednesday to respond to this rising crime wave.
  • Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, a former New York Police Department captain, is leading the pack of New York mayoral primary candidates as counting entered the ranked-choice phase. He ran a law and order campaign far from the "defund the police" chants that echoed among liberals on Twitter last year.
  • Republicans are likely to carry the perception of the nation's cities overrun by crime into the 2022 midterm elections.
  • The political divide on crime will grow as Biden and Democrats focus on guns, which are involved in most murders, as the root of the problem, and Republicans blame liberal mayors and governors and lax attitudes toward policing. "We will make sure you can't sell death and mayhem on our streets," Biden said on Wednesday. "It is an outrage. It has to end and we will end it."
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