He sez feeling is DC crime is high. Higher than average or normal.

The same people FEEL the same way about the US Mexico border. Doesn't matter that during the Biden administration immigration numbers actually dropped because improvements in Mexican and Latin American economies reduced pressure on people to emigrate.

The felon lied about that, knowing his base would carry the lie into eternity, or perpetuity, which ever comes first.

I spent a year on that border, starting a music program. I spent many hours walking the RIO southeast of El Paso studying and collecting insects of the Chihuahua desert. I saw the immigration with my own eyes when NAFTA created the irresistable lure of maquilladoras, luring Latinos to the border in hope of a secure job,

Many more arrived than jobs were available, and the spill over was massive illegal immigration into the US.

Job conditions at the maquilladoras were bad. Workers worked a 12 hour day for total pay of $3 to $5 for the day, and a sandwich.

While all that was happening, I taught music.
This was my kids' Spring Concert finale.

I recorded the instrumetal tracks using Trax software on a Mac computer, and a Proteus orchestral sound module, mastered through a Roland digital piano. I recorded each instrumental track in real time so the combination sounds real, not MIDI, and then conducted the choir, having taught them the SATB parts. They and I had to listen carefully to the accompaniment, which they heard through monitors, to make sure they didm't rush ahead or behind the pulse. Good music teaching all around. I think we were one of the very first ensembles to do this, and that cutting edge was inspiring.

The school and area was infested with gangs. Drug runners from the cartels smuggling dope and people across the border. Many of my high school kids were involved. Their families were. Some legit worked for the maquilladoras, and it took a family working to support a household. Some slept in abandoned, wrecked cars because they had no bedroom. Their homes were cinder block construction a few blocks at a time. No runnung water, and in some cases no electricity. Poverty beyond your wildest imagination. To get them to dress in black and white for the final concert was a major accomplishment. I taught them to sing, and they taught me Spanish.

Every student learned a half dozen songs from 24 Italian Songs and Arias to have something to sing on their own, solo. I transcribed pop works they heard on Radio Canon, like Tiempo de Valse, for them to sing. Win win. This happened in an old tool shed. The concert was in the old Catholic mission church with perfect acoustics.

But the point is numbers are precise. Regardless what your "feelings" are, you have to adjust for numbers, be those tempo, immigrants, or crime stats. If you don't, and just go by feelings, you can easily end up with a train wreck mess; exactly what the felon and MAGA have on their hands.