A conservative group has unveiled a preelection campaign to remind voters of the historic surge in crime that has followed President Joe Biden into office, just like the border and economic crises.
In a long form digital ad and shorter radio ad, Citizens for Sanity put high crime back in front of voters at a time when some cities are suffering historic levels of murder and carjackings and one Washington, D.C., area county plans to start enforcing a curfew on teenagers because so many have been shooting each other.
“For nearly 30 years, crime was falling in the United States. No more. The national murder rate is at its highest in 25 years, the result of far-left policies,” said the group, which fights “woke” policies and liberal prosecutors eager to clean out prisons with pardons.
“Woke prosecutors are releasing dangerous predators before trial. Woke far-left politicians allowing our streets to be overrun with drugs, homelessess, mental illness, crime,” added the radio ad shared with Secrets.
Citizens For Sanity has released a new national ad “STOP THE SLAUGHTER!” It’s about woke leftist politicians transforming our cities into a hell of violence and death. pic.twitter.com/PQqt7KhFml
— Citizens for Sanity (@citizens_sanity) September 3, 2022
Former Trump-era Justice Department official Ian Prior, an adviser to the group, told Secrets, “Americans don’t want their grandparents assaulted by felons released early by leftist prosecutors. Citizens for Sanity is committed to ending the war on police.”
The group’s digital ad features scenes of gangs looting stores, people being pushed onto subway tracks, and shootings in the middle of the day.
“You’ve seen the images — subway riders pushed onto tracks, stores looted in broad daylight, elderly women viciously beaten on the street,” the radio version of the group’s ad said.
