How do you know President Joe Biden is worried about his rock-bottom approval ratings? He has finally been forced to address the massive rise in crime rates that is occurring on his watch.

The long-belated renunciation of his party’s “defund the police” message came just after a police funeral at which Manhattan’s soft-on-crime Democratic prosecutor was excoriated by the widow. Better late than never, perhaps — but Biden’s attempts at political deflection will not actually stop crime.