Larry Elder blasts government for rising crime and failure to protect citizens

California gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder and Fox Nation host Joey Jones joined “Hannity” Friday to discuss the rise in crime across the United States.

"The number one job of government is to protect people and property and it's not happening. Under this governor, during the COVID situation, 20,000 convicted felons have been released. What could possibly go wrong? Many of them are going to re-offend based on statistics.  We had this anti-police narrative that has caused defunding the police."  Elder continued to slam the California government citing the amount of money being diverted from the police departments across the state, "Out here in Los Angles, the LAPD has lost $150 million because of the defund the police movement, it's absolutely insane, and the people who are hurt disproportionally are the very people left claims they care about, black and brown people." Jones followed saying, "Democrats have purposefully made it easier for people to not follow the rules," and noted that if you call them out on it they bring up the socioeconomic status of the criminal.