Violent crime rates have been falling dramatically over the last few years, but you would never know it by watching local TV news programs. “If it bleeds, it leads” is still the organizing principle behind local news. As a result, Americans are terrified of crime, particularly of the black and urban kind.
That’s why Trump has some traction on crime, even if he is far more Bruce Wayne than Batman in the real world. I’m not sure there is anything the left can really do about it, either.