Psaki Deflection 

Jen Psaki had her typical take on any issue that reflects poorly on Joe Biden, deflect, deflect, deflect. When Jen Psaki was pressed on the current crime spree in a recent press briefing, she quickly moved to other issues without giving any real answer. 

Peter Doocy from Fox News asked, “Do you think it’s possible that these cities are dealing with these smash and grab robberies right now, an increase in criminal activity, because some prosecutors are too soft on crime?” Psaki responded saying “I would say we have seen, I’m not going to attribute the reasoning from here, what I will tell you is we have seen an increase in crime over the course of the pandemic. There are a range of reasons for that, and what our focus is on is what we can do to address it. The President has proposed additional funding in the budget to make sure local police departments and cops have the funding they need. We have also worked directly with police departments in areas where they are seeing the highest impact of the crime, the retail theft, which we have great concern about.” 

This answer is non-satisfactory, the suggestion made is effectively “well we are working on it” when the question that was asked was about the origins of this crime problem.