[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 132 (Wednesday, July 28, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H4094]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                    CRIME RISING ACROSS THE COUNTRY

  (Mr. GROTHMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GROTHMAN. Mr. Speaker, I noticed this morning that in the last 
week there were a couple more homicides in the city of my birth, 
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Milwaukee right now is on pace to exceed the 
record number of homicides they had last year. This did not happen in a 
vacuum.
  There are some people who blame guns, but other crimes are up as 
well, which shows guns have nothing to do with it. The reason is that 
law enforcement is under attack and has been passive, not only in 
Milwaukee, but in Chicago, in Baltimore, in Philadelphia, and 
Washington.
  And why are they passive? Because politicians in this Chamber and 
politicians around the country have tried to blame the police for 
incarceration rather than blame the criminal. And as a result, police 
are scared to act, afraid to be aggressive, and we have murder rates 
higher than we have seen in quite a while, and we recently hit 90,000 
deaths a year from illegal drug use.
  These additional deaths, to me, the blood is on the people who ignore 
the studies that show that police are not racist and continue to push 
the police into a more passive fashion. We must stop this cheap 
politicking.

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