Violent Crime is a National Crisis
Mike R. Pompeo
American Center for Law and Justice
October 4, 2025
Lately, it feels as though every day brings a new report of a horrific crime committed somewhere in our great nation. In just the last week, we saw deadly attacks on an ICE facility in Texas and an LDS Church in Michigan. These attacks came on the heels of the very public assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, the horrific killing spree at a Minneapolis Catholic school that claimed the lives of two children, and the now infamous stabbing of Iryna Zarutska on a train in Charlotte, North Carolina.
For all that is going in the right direction in this country, there is a palpable sense of unease – even darkness – that seems to be at large. Whether it’s the lionization of political assassinations or the normalization of random acts of violence, there are definite echoes of the lawlessness that reigned during the 1960s and 1970s. And while the spike in homicide rates and violent crime that began in 2020 has gone down, it has by no means returned to pre-pandemic levels.
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