Trump is riding an imaginary crime wave

At his campaign rallies, Donald Trump often declares that “crime is rampant and out of control, like never before.” He claims that the nation’s capital is a “nightmare of murder and crime. People from Georgia go down to Washington now and they get shot.” In New York City, “you go right outside and people are being mugged and killed all day long.”

If elected president in 2024, Trump says he will close the border with Mexico, deport millions of undocumented immigrants living in the U.S....