On Wednesday morning’s New Day, CNN viewers got an unusual dose of reality on the true causes of the recent crime surge as former Capitol Hill police officer Michael Fanone — now a CNN law enforcement analyst — actually implicated the media and the decriminalization of crime by liberal leaders.

This contrasts with the liberal network’s history of making lame attempts to blame the pandemic and guns — even though other countries have also had a pandemic without such crime increases, and there has been little change in gun laws.

Fanone — who was assaulted during the 1/6 Capitol Hill riots — has notably been a frequent guest on the network in the past year as CNN has been fixated on the violent protests by right-wing activists.

Correspondent Brynn Gingras filed a report recalling that homicides increased 29 percent in 2020, and an additional seven percent in 2021, as she also informed viewers about three high-profile murders that have occurred recently — the stabbing of a UCLA student in Los Angeles, an attack on a nurse at a bus stop in Los Angeles, and the pushing of a woman in front of a subway train in New York — none of which involved guns.