New data shows more bad crime numbers for progressive blue cities. Ted Jenkin is the president of Exit Stage Left Advisors, and he did the research for Fox News.
"There's been a lot of discussion around crime and the National Guard hitting some of these big blue-led cities, and I decided to dive deeper and just look at the numbers, and retail has reported almost a 100% increase in the average number of shoplifting incidents" Jenkin said.
If that's not bad enough, retail theft is up 93% since 2019.
"When you just look at retail alone, retailers lost $112 billion dollars just to theft" Jenkin told KTRH, adding that it has hit everybody in these blue cities.
"These are not just mom & pop operations that are getting hit, Target itself projected $500 million dollars in additional losses this year alone, do to organized retail crime."
In the column, Jenkin also points out that New York City is on pace to lose $4 billion in tourism dollars here in 2025, and in once beautiful San Francisco, the commercial vacancy downtown is now almost 35%.
And yet, the left still blames Trump for trying to help stop it.