Pumping out bogus information that is easily refuted:
<<<<Ersatz historian and “Christian nation” booster David Barton is at it again. This time he’s claiming that the city of Las Vegas cut violent crime by 75 percent after the police department adopted “biblical principles” and began working with conservative churches.
There are a couple of problems with Barton’s claim. First off, any assertion that a violent crime rate anywhere dropped so dramatically should be met with great skepticism. Crime rates fluctuate depending on several factors (the state of the economy being a big one), but a 75 percent plunge over a short period of time would be pretty remarkable. It’s not impossible, but some evidence would be nice.
So where’s the proof? There isn’t any. The indefatigable Barton critic Warren Throckmorton decided to do something radical: contact the Las Vegas Police Department and ask if there was any truth to Barton’s contention.
If you’re familiar with our past writings on the fundamentalist Pinocchio of Texas, you can probably guess what happened next: The claim turned out to be a piece of Grade-A, certified Barton baloney.
An officer with the last name of Rodriguez told Throckmorton, “That is not true.” Rodriguez added, “Sadly, we’re seeing an increase in violent crime year to date as compared to the same period last year.”
Throckmorton noted that Rodriguez told him that violent crime overall is up nearly 25 percent in Las Vegas as compared to the same period in 2015.
Furthermore, there is no police program in Las Vegas that implements “biblical principles.” Rodriguez told Throckmorton that the police department there works with many faith-based groups, Christian and non-Christian, but that “officers are not preaching and teaching the Bible.”>>>
https://au.org/blogs/wall-of-s...ey-from-david-barton
Now here's some scary stuff. Barton reportedly has the ear of fundamentalist theocrat and presidential candidate Ted Cruz, who has recently hobnobbed with Christian Dominionists:
"As Throckmorton points out, all of this would be just another whopper uttered by an infamous “liar for Jesus” (as Chris Rodda puts it), but Barton aspires to be more than that. He’s advising U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a man who wants to be president and who might get the party nod if the GOP Powers That Be decide to use procedural moves to knock out Donald Trump at a contested convention."