Blake Moore: “I thank the gentleman from Michigan for his comments. I yield to the gentleman from California (Mr. LaMalfa) to address…”

“I thank the gentleman from Michigan for his comments. I yield to the gentleman from California (Mr. LaMalfa) to address the House. Mr. LaMALFA. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman for leading this Special Order tonight as we certainly have plenty of things to talk about and what Congress and our Federal Government should be doing. The topic I am going to hit on is the crime situation. Now, you will hear different things reported in the news on how crime is in the U.S. Well, I think normal people, regular everyday Americans see that it is a problem, but the way it is reported or the way it is spoken about under the Biden-Harris administration is like, oh, crime is not a problem, crime is down. Tell that to the people or the storefront owners in various blue cities where you see these massive break-ins by hordes of people smashing their way in and smashing the countertops and all that, taking cell phones and jewelry and whatever else might be on their minds. Where do they come up with the statistics like crime is somehow down? Well, we are seeing more and more evidence that perhaps the mayors of these blue cities, perhaps other leaders, are telling their people to not report them. If the police departments--and many jurisdictions around this country are underreporting what is really going on. I guess that is how you can skew the statistics to look like they are better, and that crime is somehow down.…”