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The Biden Crime Wave

Oct. 20, 2011 12:35pm David Harsanyi

Don’t screw around with Joe or he will smother you in twaddle.

Nothing says classy like vice president Joe Biden, a man who is on the campaign trail trying to scare parents, single women and others into believing that high crime rates will ravage the nation if Republicans do not pass President Barack Obama’s union bailout package.

Sergeant Biden reporting for duty

“It’s not temporary [the administration’s stimulus] when that 911 call comes in and a woman’s being raped, if a cop shows up in time to prevent the rape. It’s not temporary to that woman,” explained Biden. Sadly, the American public didn’t show up in time to prevent this guy from being on my television.

Failure to prevent the rape of a woman, according to Biden, is a responsibility that now falls on the political opponents of Obama – since they have other ideas about how to fix the economy. You’ll notice that this theoretical crime won’t be thwarted because congress refuses to pass Obama’s entire spending bill and has nothing to do with Democrats throwing $500 million away on Solyandra or hundreds of billions away on the last stimulus plan and other bailouts.

Democrats allocate the flow of money and the morality attached to it.

When challenged by Human Events editor Jason Mattera — hey, we can all get a bit fiery during a political debate — this happened:

“Do you regret using the rape reference to describe Senate opposition” to the bill, Jason Mattera asked Biden as he left a rally with police unions and others who have faced the budget ax in recent months.

“I didn’t use … no, no, no,” Biden responded. “Let’s get it straight, guy. Don’t screw around with me. Let’s get it straight.”

“You didn’t use a rape reference,” said Mattera, of the conservative news organization Human Events.
“No, let me explain,” Biden said, pointing toward Mattera. “I said rape was up three times in Flint. Those are the numbers. Go look at the numbers. Murder is up; rape is up; burglary is up. That’s what I said.”

“And if the Republicans don’t pass this bill, then rape will continue to rise?” the reporter asked.
“Murder will continue to rise; rape will continue to rise; all crime will continue to rise,” Biden said.

Asked by Mattera whether it was appropriate to use such language, Biden scoffed and walked away.

Actually, not true. Crime rates have been falling sharply for many years — for the most part, even in Flint one of the most dangerous cities in the nation.

The incidence of crime nationwide decreased again, according to our just released Crime in the United States report. Overall, the estimated volume of violent crimes in 2010 dropped 6 percent compared to the 2009 figure, the fourth consecutive year it has declined. For the eighth consecutive year, the volume of property crimes went down as well—2.7 percent.

And rapes?

There were an estimated at 84,767 forcible rapes reported to law enforcement in 2010. This estimate was 5.0 percent lower than the 2009 estimate and 10.3 percent and 6.7 percent lower than the 2006 and 2001 estimates, respectively.

(Hey, remember when electing a Republican meant rape would be legal?)

There may be number of factors that contribute to this — prosperity, societal changes and technological advances – but for most of those years, we didn’t have any Federal stimulus programs.
In any event, do more cops always mean less crime? It’s arguable. Crime rates are unpredictable, even in tough economic times, but no doubt another short-term Obama “jobs” plan will do for crime fighting what the first plan did for the economy. The question is will Biden’s ridiculous attacks be effective politically? I doubt it for a few reasons.

1. No one, thankfully, takes Joe Biden seriously. Rhetoric so transparently political and nasty might even backfire.
2. The vast majority of citizens have anecdotal evidence that crime is not the problem it once was and there is no evidence that it will be. “Crime” never shows up on polls as a major concern for voters. And it is unlikely that there will be a sudden spike in the fourth year of a terrible economy.
3. Moreover, crime, you might remember if you’re old enough, was most often a crisis of big cities run by gigantic union-backed bureaucracies and liberal politicians. Is there a perception among the electorate that Republicans are soft on crime? I doubt it.
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Comments (13)

EqualJustice
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 2:12pm
Someone better tell JOE that OWS Gang in Baltimore is telling protestors NOT to report ASSAULTS! http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-10-19/news/bs-md-ci-occupy-baltimore-rape-20111019_1_sexual-assaults-sexual-abuse-report-crimes

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theduke89
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 10:12pm
Ah yes, the politics of fear rears it’s ugly head yet again. Vote Republican and your women will be raped, your house ransacked and all your friends murdered.

Vote Democrat. We will protect you from the hordes who generally vote for us.

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dfox7
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 6:02pm
Wow! Sounds like Biden and the By-Stander are in full panic mode.

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Crowman 70
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 5:49pm
We need more reporters such as the man from “Human Events” whom are not afraid of Joey Biden. The only reason Joe asked his organization was due to his hope the man would reply, “FOX News.”

Biden is a farce every time he tries to be tough on camera and his lies about the increase in crime mesh perfectly with those of Dingy Harry Reid yesterday who insisted the private sector was “Doing quite well,” and it was the public sector that was in need of help.”

Check the figures and you will find that public employment in D. C., has skyrocketed since 2009 while the private sector is in deep trouble nationally. Does Harry Reid know the difference or simply read from his daily sheet of wishful fabrications? Two horrible disgraces we have for the leader of the Senate and VP.

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dirtdiggler
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 5:25pm
With Harry Reid stating that this the jobs bill is for teachers, first responders and other public employees and Joe Biden saying that if the jobs bill is not passed there will be more rapes murders are the is the Democrat Party saying that teachers, first responders and other public employees are going to rape & murder?

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war7412
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 4:34pm
Biden needs to be QUIET for once. He needs to retire NOW…………………

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petermacso
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 4:30pm
Biden talks of less badges in Flint, What do you expect, it lost 50% of its population.

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NoLawyers
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 4:22pm
Well, I guess that my wife and I had best make sure that the guns are loaded. I wonder how many rapes get called in just before or as they are happening? What a dumb bit of scare tactic. I’ll toss out — If police have enough manpower to do spot checks to see if you are wearing a seat belt, might it be that they have too many police?

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Pops
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 4:08pm
What may be contributing to an increase in crime is the Class Warfare rhetoric coming out of this administration. By convincing people that the rich are simply doing what they want with impunity, the not so rich may be deciding that they should take what they want. By not enforcing rules and laws, this administration may be giving the idea that people can get away with things. By supporting protests in the street and supporting people who disobey police officers, this administration may be sending a message that the laws of the land need not be obeyed.

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Anonymouse
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 1:49pm
One could argue with Biden that by destroying the private sector we are equally destroying the jobs of teachers, police, fire fighters, and other public workers. My reasoning for this is as follows: when you increase regulations either businesses have to stop hiring, start firing, not expand, close down. Each of these steps leads to taxes flowing into the public sector to be decreased. So, in the end, the over regulatory Obama/Biden administration is personally responsible for being unable to hire more teachers, police, fire fighters, and other public sector workers. So, coming back to Biden, he’s as much responsible for the increase of murder, rapes, and other crimes (even though the article mentions that crime has gone down).

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Diablo4965
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 1:20pm
If the union stimulus bill isn’t passed all it will mean is we’ll see less cops standing around at Dunkin Donuts.

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Danimal98367
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 1:09pm
Flint is the 4th most dangerous city in the country. It got there suddenly, apparently, at the laying off of many police officers. It has no correlation to Flint being the 10th most liberal city . . . and the culture that LONG history has reaped (including about 25% living below the poverty line). Nope.

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- Alucard
  Posted on October 20, 2011 at 2:30pm
  I was just going to ask how long has Flint and MI been under Dem leadership?
  
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