Yes, what’s up with this? Gavin Newsom said that red states have the highest murder rates. did he distort certain statistics to come to such a conclusion?
Is he saying his liberal paradise in California, perhaps the bluest of all blue states, is a peace loving paradise without crime problems??
Yes, of course he did. He compared states. Most of the significant differences come from local policies. When looked at the county level, the result is opposite of what he claims.
A good way to see if someone is lying with statistics, is if they refuse to use all the data available.
It is not hard to look over a data set, find a subset which gives you the result you want, and use that subset for ideological purposes.
In this case, the state data is a subset of the county data, and the county data is a subset of the individual data.