New report details success of Florida’s anti-crime policies: ‘Keeping Florida on the right track’
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The new Stronger Safer Cities Report by the Florida Sheriffs Association detailed the successful crime and policing policies that the state has enacted over recent years.
The report, completed in partnership with the Florida Chamber of Commerce, also compared how other states have failed to protect their citizens, businesses and law enforcement.
“As we try to grow to a top ten global economy by 2030 and as the nation focuses on crime in their communities, Florida is getting it right,” the report said. “Florida remains committed to securing our future success by adopting sound policies to combat crime and disorder.”
“State leaders have rejected the call for policies that promote chaos and instability in our cities,” it added.
The report explained how the organizations expect the state to add 2.8 million more residents, 1.35 million new jobs, 40 million more annual visitors and roughly 2.5 million more drivers on its roads by 2030.
It specifically went into detail on Florida’s response to combatting crime like porch piracy, enforcing strict drug laws, funding police departments, addressing “rogue prosecutors,” and more.
The report compared the successes in Florida to failed policies such as mass-scale drug legalization in Oregon and the defunding of local law enforcement in New York.
“Many Americans are fleeing cities that have implemented criminal justice reform policies partly due to the rapid rise of violent crime,” it stated. “Of the 13 cities with the highest violent crime rate, 10 are led by criminal justice reform activists. These 10 cities had an average violent crime rate of 1,285 per 100,000 in 2022, far exceeding the national rate of 380 per 100,000. All but two of these cities saw a population decline.”
Florida Attorney General Ashely Moody commented on the report, highlighting how Florida has taken the appropriate steps to combat crime and provide a high quality of life for it’s residents.
“Florida ranks high for population growth, business formations and tourism. This is no accident. While some parts of the country took dangerous, unproven detours, our leaders stayed focused on sound, commonsense criminal justice policies,” she said.
“The just-released Stronger Safer Cities report by @FloridaSheriffs and @FloridaChamber outlines how these policies and our leaders are keeping Florida on the right track as some areas of the country continue down a road to chaos and disorder,” she added.
The organizations also provided their own polls showing how U.S. citizens living in and outside of Florida feel about violent crime in their states and communities.
According to the statistics, 40% of Floridians believe violent crime has gone down, while only 2% living in other states say the same. On the other hand, 74% of Americans living outside of Florida argue that violent crime has gone up where they live.
Similar numbers can be seen at the county and municipal level, with nearly half of the state’s population saying that violent crime has gone down in their local community, compared to only 2% nationally.
