Posted on 01/31/2026 10:19:09 PM PST by econjack
US ranking in world violence before and after removing 5 Democrat-controlled cities.
And make them show their work.
What happens to crime rates in any country when you remove big cities? Cities are where crime happens everywhere in the world. Remove urban crime statistics from any country and crime rates fall off a cliff. Even within metropolitan areas, most violent crimes occur within a relatively small number of neighborhoods, leaving much of those cities relatively safe.
What you’re saying sounds like “we don’t have a gun problem, we have an urban problem”.
I remember a study from tenth grade biology. The more mice that were housed in a single cage, the more fighting and cannibalism there was.
EC
The further you get from civilization, the more civilized people are.
The commonalities of the 5? Democrats and gun control. Go figure.
The USA doesn’t have a gun control problem. We’ve got an Afro National Socialist problem. The hatreds and delusions of these is the real root cause of so called “gun violence.”
John B. Calhoun's Mouse Utopia Experiment and Reflections on the Welfare State FEE, 11 October 2020
A u-topia is a word meaning "no place." It was from Thomas More through unto today IMAGINARY.
“The commonalities of the 5? Democrats and gun control. Go figure.”
There’s one more “commonality” that’s not mentioned.
Bkmk
Thank you so much for that link. It should be required reading.
EC
Gee, if only President Trump knew this he might pour law enforcement resources into urban areas to clean out the criminals. Oh...he’s doing that and the Dems are furious and trying to defund the whole government to prevent it.
The Calhoun experiments -- actual science -- and especially conclusions like FEE's application of it to the "welfare state."
Suggested:
"Behavioral sink is a term invented by ethologist John B. Calhoun to describe a collapse in behavior that can result from overpopulation. The term and concept derive from a series of over-population experiments Calhoun conducted on Norway rats between 1958 and 1962.[1] In the experiments, Calhoun and his researchers created a series of "rat utopias"[2] – enclosed spaces where rats were given unlimited access to food and water, enabling unfettered population growth. Calhoun coined the term behavioral sink[3] in a February 1, 1962, Scientific American article titled "Population Density and Social Pathology".[4] He later performed similar experiments on mice from 1968 to 1972.[5]
"Calhoun's work became used as an animal model of societal collapse, and his study has become a touchstone of urban sociology and psychology in general.[6]" more....
Source: Behavioral sink Wiki
Other links:
This Old Experiment With Mice Led to Bleak Predictions for Humanity's Future Smithsonian, 26 February 2015.
A search engine will also turn up "debunking" and "fact check" and more, as the experiment with open methodology and third-party confirmable data was and continues to be met with "words" as if to say some version of "don't look there!"
“There’s one more “commonality” that’s not mentioned.”
Perhaps we should consult with Yogi & Boo-boo for the definitive answer to that unwritten bit of the puzzle. 😉
why do i have to watch a video to find out two numbers: before and after?
That isn’t the point. The point is that all five of those cities are run by Democrats and they have strict gun laws in place.
In 2023, there were 8,842 white murderers and 6,405 Black murderers in the United States.
Assuming 330 million people, of which 14% are black, the percentage of whites who commit murder is 3.115x10-5. The murder rate for blacks is 1.386x10-4. This means that blacks commit murder at a rate that is 2.28 higher than that for whites. Many sociologists blame the higher crime rate for blacks on the breakup of the black family that see 72% of blacks raised in a single-parent home. They blame this statistic on the fact that welfare pays mothers more when the father is not in the home. Perhaps we should make the policy that payments are reduced from their current levels (e.g., reduce by $5000/yr) when the father is not present. I think we'd see a lot of mothers going after the father for child support or moving into the home to help raise the children. Being a father is easy. Being a parent isn't.
The gun control fanatics were silent when Trump and Charlie were shot. Says it all.
Oh, I got his point, but comparing urban homicide rates to the rest of the country is apples and oranges. Take Dallas for example, the largest US city with a Republican Mayor. Dallas homicide rates are comparable to Los Angeles. Take away the homicides of Dallas-Ft Worth, and the homicide rate of Texas plummets. Comparting Dallas to to Texas’ 2nd largest city, Austin, Dallas has a significantly higher crime rate across the board, despite Austin being uber liberal. Austin has a liberal government but Dallas has a higher population density.
Clearly, liberal mayors, their police chiefs and prosecutors, along with liberal judges are responsible for some level of increased violent crime, but population density is a major, if not primary driver of crime in blue AND red cities in most countries.
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