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00:00President Trump is pushing the left on crime, which is wise politically, but tricky as well.

00:07Because crime is a local issue, a state issue, not so much a federal issue when it comes to street crime,

00:14the violent crime that most people worry about.

00:16That said, Trump is being very clever, taking his opportunities.

00:21First, he has taken over policing in Washington, D.C. for a month, maybe longer if Congress lets him,

00:27and is also calling for his attorney general to identify areas that have passed cashless bail,

00:36which he says is a baneful policy, and he's right,

00:38and look at taking federal law enforcement grants away from those states and cities.

00:43Let's be clear, his D.C. move is entirely legal.

00:47Washington, D.C., under the Constitution, is controlled by the federal government, controlled by Congress.

00:52Congress has given it some home rule for the last few decades, but it's very limited.

00:57Even now, the prosecutor for all felonies in D.C. is the federal D.A. for the district,

01:04who's now Jeanine Pirro, appointed by Trump.

01:06New Yorkers know her when she was Westchester D.A.

01:09She's pushing hard, but she's only able to enforce D.C. local laws, which, again, are bad on bail,

01:16because D.C., like New York, like Illinois State, like California,

01:21they've gone bad on criminal justice in a lot of ways, gone loose.

01:24New York was one of the first, under Andrew Cuomo, who signed into law what we call the no-bail law,

01:31which, of course, didn't utterly eliminate bail.

01:34It still holds in a few more cases after Governor Hochul has been getting the legislature to slightly back off.

01:40But it's still bad.

01:42It still promotes crime here in the city.

01:44Trump put the National Guard into D.C. as well, which, again, he controls the Guard for D.C.

01:48because there's no state to do it, so he's effectively the governor of that state.

01:52That's kosher, too.

01:53It's going to be a little trickier for him to send the Guard into Chicago or Baltimore or New York.

02:00In fact, it's pretty clear he shouldn't send it into New York unless something terrible happens,

02:06because New York is getting crime under control.

02:10Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch and Mayor Adams have got things going the right way.

02:15Not as safe as it was before the pandemic.

02:17It doesn't feel as safe, but a lot of that has to do with things that the police can't control

02:22because the state has taken away their power to move homeless along,

02:27to take crazy people off the streets, put them in, if not jail, into commitment to do something with these public threats.

02:34And again, all that is up to our state lawmakers to fix.

02:38What Trump is doing by pushing the issue with his talk of how cashless bail is terrible

02:44is forcing Democrats to defend it, defend it nationally, not just in areas where they control the terms of debate.

02:50Up in Albany, they just don't listen when people tell them the truth about it.

02:55They just look at bogus stats that their own people come up with, and they ignore the facts.

03:01Hochul keeps pushing the legislature to get a little bit better,

03:05but then keeps pretending it's been enough when it's not.

03:08New York needs to get back to pre-2019 criminal laws.

03:12Pretty much every jurisdiction that's gone this way should undo it.

03:16California voted to undo some of its worst soft-on-crime laws last fall.

03:21The question is, is Governor Newsom and the legislature going to stop it from actually being enforced?

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