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Care To Guess How Many Of The Deadliest Cities In The U.S. Have A Republican Mayor?
Issues & Insights ^ | 2 Sep, 2025 | I&I Editorial Board

Posted on 09/02/2025 7:06:24 AM PDT by MtnClimber

“I want to present some facts to the president of the United States, and I imagine this is alarming to the president to learn these facts.” – California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

In one of his endless attempts to grab a headline, California Gov. Gavin Newsom last week taunted President Donald Trump, saying that if he’s serious about fighting crime, he should be sending the National Guard to red states such as Louisiana, which has a murder rate far higher than California.

Newsom’s attempt to troll the president failed on Sunday, when Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem took the attention-starved governor up on his offer.

“Absolutely,” she said on “Face the Nation,” when asked if the Trump administration would send National Guard troops into cities or states run by Republicans. “Every single city is evaluated for what we need to do there to make it safer.”

But even if Trump were to follow up on this, he’d likely still end up sending National Guard troops almost exclusively into Democratic strongholds.

Not for political reasons. But because the most crime-infested parts of the country are almost entirely run by Democrats.

Here are some facts about crime that might be alarming to the governor of California.

Are you listening Gavin?

- Of the 20 cities with the highest homicide rates in the country, 14 are located in blue or purple states.

- Just one of the remaining six currently has a Republican mayor – Dallas’ Eric Johnson – and he was twice elected as a Democrat, and switched to become a Republican in his second term.

- The remaining five cities, despite being in red states, have been under Democratic control for years, if not decades.

- It’s been 12 years since Greensboro, N.C., last had a Republican mayor.

- The last time there was a Republican mayor in St. Louis, Mo., was 1949.

- Atlanta hasn’t had a Republican mayor since 1879; New Orleans, hasn’t seen one since 1872.

- In Indianapolis, the homicide rate has been elevated ever since Democrats gained control of the mayorship in 2017. From 2010 through 2016, the annual number of homicides in the city averaged around 120. Since then, it’s averaged 201.

Well, you might ask, what does it matter who the mayor is? The reason it matters is that crime is local. And local law enforcement is what matters.

“Your public safety as a resident is dramatically impacted by your district attorney, by your police department, and by whether the local politicians support and adequately fund the police and prosecutor’s offices,” noted a Heritage Foundation research paper from 2022.

It doesn’t matter where these cities are located. If Democrats run them, it’s more likely than not that residents are stuck with local prosecutors who won’t prosecute crimes, police departments that are understaffed and demoralized, criminals who, if they are caught at all, get released on cashless bail, and political machines that keep these Democrats in power, decade after miserable decade.

Dallas’ Mayor Johnson said it best when he switched to the GOP. “The future of America’s great urban centers depends on the willingness of the nation’s mayors to champion law and order and practice fiscal conservatism. Our cities desperately need the genuine commitment to these principles (as opposed to the inconsistent, poll-driven commitment of many Democrats) that has long been a defining characteristic of the GOP.”

These are the facts, Gavin. And they are, indeed, alarming. They are an alarming indictment of those who, for far too long, have maintained an iron grip on our once great cities.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: california; facethenation; gavinnewsom; kristinoem; leftism; murders; rates; stats
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1 posted on 09/02/2025 7:06:24 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Correlates nicely with vote fraud.


2 posted on 09/02/2025 7:08:11 AM PDT by grumpygresh
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To: MtnClimber
Color me "NOT SHOCKED".

And the democRATs fudge the crime numbers so the actual crime rates are likely much worse than reported.

3 posted on 09/02/2025 7:08:32 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Ping


4 posted on 09/02/2025 7:13:04 AM PDT by WhattheDickens? (Funny, I didn’t think this was 1984…)
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To: MtnClimber

It’s this way because it’s supposed to be this way. No amount of charity will change this.


5 posted on 09/02/2025 7:13:27 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: MtnClimber

Good information for when some mouthy democrat starts quoting Newscum as fact.


6 posted on 09/02/2025 7:15:46 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: All

Don’t expect the legacy media to report these highly relevant facts.


7 posted on 09/02/2025 7:18:10 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: MtnClimber

These crime ridden cities have something else in common besides being filled with democrats. Welfare momma’s and poverty pimps, comes to mind.


8 posted on 09/02/2025 7:20:48 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: MtnClimber

One little factoid not shown above is that in that list of cities, blacks account for the vast majority of those homicides. The elephant in the room no one discusses.


9 posted on 09/02/2025 7:25:13 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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Oh, people discuss it alright. Some miscreants are obsessed with it.


10 posted on 09/02/2025 7:44:56 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: MtnClimber
Thebe Ikalafeng on X:

11 posted on 09/02/2025 7:52:48 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Import the third world. Become the second world.)
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To: MtnClimber

Where is Baltimore?


12 posted on 09/02/2025 8:01:21 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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Baltimore may not report their data to the FBI.


13 posted on 09/02/2025 8:03:09 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: aquila48

Where is Baltimore?


Maryland. But that’s not important right now.


14 posted on 09/02/2025 8:03:58 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: aquila48

Memphis isn’t on the list either, but I looked it up... 27.1 per 100,000 which puts it near the top.


15 posted on 09/02/2025 8:06:44 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: MtnClimber

The other thing most of those hell holes have in common is they have black mayors and much larger black population than the national average.

The elephant in the room nobody wants to talk about.


16 posted on 09/02/2025 8:07:38 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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A friend who worked with crime stats in TN noted that the only crimes where whites came close to blacks were petty theft, welfare/credit card fraud, and picking up hookers. In the homicide department, blacks commit murder 9 to 10 times more than whites.


17 posted on 09/02/2025 8:14:22 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: MtnClimber

The New Orleans Mayor’s first name is LaToya...need I say more?


18 posted on 09/02/2025 8:24:19 AM PDT by oil_dude
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To: MtnClimber

BTTT


19 posted on 09/02/2025 8:29:06 AM PDT by nopardons ( )
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To: aquila48

Here is a list based on the most recent data:

St. Louis, Missouri: 69.4 per 100,000 people
Baltimore, Maryland: 51.1 per 100,000 people
New Orleans, Louisiana: 40.6 per 100,000 people
Detroit, Michigan: 39.7 per 100,000 people
Cleveland, Ohio: 33.7 per 100,000 people


20 posted on 09/02/2025 8:34:15 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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