Todd Blanche: “Just the violent crime rates in this country have gone way…”

“But do not forget that we have accomplished a tremendous amount of good, positive work in the past year and a half. Just the violent crime rates in this country have gone way, way down. And that's not all the federal government, but we are certainly a big part of that success. We have arrested hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of violent offenders both in the drug space, human trafficking space, and other space.” (08:51–08:58)

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