During her weekly press conference, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) weighed in on the debate over why crime is increasing across the United States, claiming not to know why it is happening. Since the summer of 2020, the United States has seen a staggering increase in the number of violent crimes being committed. For example, FBI statistics show that in 2019, an estimated 16,425 murders were carried out; In 2020, that number rose to a staggering 21,570, or 4,901 more murders than were committed in 2019. Twelve major population centers including, among others, Portland, Philadelphia, Columbus, Louisville, and Austin have broken city records for annual murder with a few weeks still left in 2021. More broadly, 2020 saw 1,277,696 violent crimes—an average of around 388 violent crimes per 100,000 people, marking a 5.6 percent increase over 2019. And nowhere has the rise in crime been more pronounced recently than in California, where …