We don’t have these problems there, my friend.”Ĭarlucci further defended criminal-justice reform in New York City, calling it a “work in progress” as Boothe dramatically exclaimed “oh my goodness” before ridiculing the Fox News guest. “That’s not true,” she confidently claimed. “The crime rate in Florida is just as bad, if not worse, than New York,” the ex-lawmaker shot back, only for Boothe to immediately interrupt. The right-wing pundit launched into a Fox News-typical tirade about how crime is only happening in “liberal cities run by liberal mayors and George Soros prosecutors who want criminals out of jail” before telling Carlucci that it is his “reality that’s creating the problem.” Telling Carlucci to “spare me your sanctimonious garbage,” she then noted that increased crime is the reason she’s become a “first-time gun owner” and moved from New York to Florida. The news host then bellowed that “Republicans did not call for ‘defund the police’” before turning to Boothe. That’s what is killing people around this country, and Republicans still refuse to do nothing about it.”Īfter Gallagher said “you can make the arguments but people aren’t believing it,” he added the anecdotal evidence that he’s seen people openly shoplift from drugstores three times in the past year and nobody tried to stop them. The homicide rate in New York is nothing compared to what it was in the 1980s and 1990s. He added: “There is crime that has been up, but it is relative to what they saw when we escaped the recession of the late 2000s.
The crime rate is relative to what we see reported in the media.” “New York City is still one of the safest big cities on the face of the planet. The reality is that crime is up around the country,” Carlucci told Fox News anchor Trace Gallagher. “This is a problem for the left and the right. In this instance, the conversation revolved around a New York City sucker-punch suspect being released without bail.Ĭarlucci began by noting that while crime has been on the rise in urban areas, it has also increased nationwide- including in GOP-led rural America. David Carlucci on Friday afternoon to debate Boothe on the topic. With Fox News spending much of the past year-plus portraying Democratic-run cities-most especially NYC-as dystopian criminal hellscapes, the network welcomed former New York State Sen. Additionally, the violent crime rates of the two cities are similar, while both have seen an increase in murders and aggravated assaults. Fox News contributor Lisa Marie Boothe mocked and belittled a network guest on Friday for asserting that the crime rates in New York are similar to Florida, declaring that she lives in Miami and “we don’t have these problems there.”ĭespite Boothe’s confident boasting, however, Florida’s murder rate is actually much higher than New York’s-and the same goes for Miami compared to New York City.
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