Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Sessions Takes Credit for Reversing Crime Wave; Criminologists Disagree

(Version anglaise seulement)

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is claiming credit for beginning the end of what President Donald Trump has termed “American Carnage,” a spike in violent crime during 2015 and 2016, the final two years of the Obama administration. In an opinion piece published Tuesday in USA Today, Sessions pointed to preliminary FBI data showing that violent crime in the United States decreased by 0.9 percent during the first half of last year and that the increase in the murder rate had...

Lire l'article complet