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Murder rates are plummeting. While we still have more than half a year to go, Kash Patel, the FBI’s director, says that the U.S. is on track to have the lowest murder rate ever. The current record low occurred in 2014 when the FBI reported a murder rate of 4.45 per 100,000.
The question is: Why? Law enforcement matters, but it is probably also that Trump is deporting criminal illegal aliens.
Be informed, not misled.
Patel told Joe Rogan, “Let good cops be cops,” is the answer. “I’m gonna let you, the agents, the police officers, the sheriffs, go out there and do the work you so badly want to do. And I’m gonna give you the resources you need to do it. And I’m gonna take away the politicization and weaponization … and that’s what we’ve done.”
Instead of placing a third of FBI agents in the D.C. area, Patel has moved them across the country to where crime occurs. A recent Biden administration document that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified shows that law enforcement resources were being spent on “non-criminal” activities of conservative Catholics, people attending school board meetings, and flagging those who used symbols like “2A” and imagery referencing the Second Amendment. The FBI, during the Biden Administration, sent a memo to over 1,000 employees nationwide instructing them to target conservative Catholics.
The Trump administration has also been ending DEI and other interventions that the Biden administration was pushing on police departments.
If you let law enforcement catch criminals, making it riskier for them to commit crimes, you will reduce crime.
The Wall Street Journal notes that there is another reason as well.
The Journal says, "Deporting criminal illegals may cause some illegals to lay low so that they don’t risk getting caught. ICE operations have received so much attention, prompting migrants to be more cautious, according to agents and leaders.”
Since President Trump’s Jan. 20, 2025, inauguration, the FBI has actively invested over 1 million hours collaborating with ICE, DEA, and local police to arrest more than 10,000 illegal aliens. They are targeting Biden-era border crossers.
A lot of these illegals have criminal backgrounds and if they cut back on the amount of time they are committing to reduce the risks of getting caught, it could have a noticeable impact on crime rates. If you believe the Biden administration, 9 percent of the so-called “non-detained” illegals who were released into the U.S. had criminal backgrounds (662,566 out of 7.4 million released). That is almost assuredly an underestimate as “non-detained” illegals were overwhelmingly those who had voluntarily turned themselves in at the border, presumably the ones we should be least concerned about. It doesn’t count the 2 million “gotaways” we detected crossing the border but failed to apprehend during the Biden administration, nor the unknown millions we never saw coming across the borders. This also assumes the Biden administration didn’t underreport criminal backgrounds. And many countries, such as Venezuela, wouldn’t provide information on the criminal backgrounds of their citizens.
A March headline in the New York Times notes: “Fearing roundups, many immigrants are staying home.”
While Biden’s policies freely granted work permits to many illegal immigrants, not all foreign-born workers were undocumented. Still, the sharp decline, coinciding with Trump’s aggressive use of IRS records and other tools to target illegal aliens, signals a clear impact. Undocumented workers are laying low, with reports confirming they’re staying home to avoid deportation sweeps, particularly in industries like agriculture and construction. This sudden shift underscores the effectiveness of Trump’s enforcement tactics in disrupting illegal immigrant participation in the labor market.
I, as I'm sure you are as well, am happy President Trump is bringing down the crime rates---particularly murder rates.
The Bible and crime
In the Bible, the term "lawlessness" often refers to disobedience to God's laws and a general disregard for moral principles, particularly in the context of the end times. The Bible uses "lawlessness" to describe sin and the actions of those who reject God's authority.
The Bible also teaches that in the end times, there will be increased lawlessness, which will cause the love of many to grow cold.
The Man of Lawlessness:
2 Thessalonians 2 describes a "man of lawlessness" who will be revealed before the return of Christ. This figure is associated with rebellion against God and the abomination of desolation.
Sin and Lawlessness:
1 John 3:4 states that sin is lawlessness, highlighting the connection between disobeying God's law and practicing wickedness.
End Times Context:
The concept of increasing lawlessness is often tied to the end times, telling us that it will intensify as the time of Christ's return nears.
Disobedience and Rejecting God:
Lawlessness is used to describe those who do not obey God and those who reject Christ.
Takeaway
Jesus tells us this in Matthew 24:12-15:
And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
In the following verses, Jesus emphasizes the urgency of the times of the Abomination of Desolation.
He concludes in verse 30: "And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory."
Be Informed. Be Ready. Be Faithful. Be Strong. Be Courageous. Be Prayerful.
