Posted on 03/21/2023 6:22:40 AM PDT by SJackson
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Democrats desperately trying to spin high crime rates caused by their pro-crime policies began falsely claiming that crime was a Republican problem. The media began running articles with headlines like, “Red States Have Higher Murder Rates” and “Republicans Like to Talk Tough on Crime — But They’re the Ones with a Real Crime Problem”.
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, who once claimed that the internet would have no more of an impact than the fax machine, argued that high crime was really a Republican problem and decided to prove it by claiming that, “Oklahoma’s murder rate was almost 50 percent higher than California’s, almost double New York’s.”
Krugman, who somehow has a Nobel Prize, failed to note that most of the murders were coming out of Oklahoma City and Tulsa. In last year’s gubernatorial election, Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt won most of the state while Oklahoma, Tulsa and Cleveland counties however went to leftist Democrat Joy Hofmeister. The ‘blue’ parts of Oklahoma are also red with blood.
“The fact is the rates of violent crime are higher in Oklahoma under your watch,” Hoffmeister had claimed in a viral gubernatorial debate attack. Oklahoma had 287 murders in 2020: 166 came out of Oklahoma County and Tulsa County, the two counties that supported Hoffmeister.
Oklahoma County and Tulsa are two of the 62 counties that were responsible for 56% of America’s murders in 2020. A groundbreaking study by John R. Lott of the Crime Prevention Research Center, revealed that “1% of counties have 21% of the population and 42% of the murders” and “2% of counties contain 31% of the population and 56% of the murders.”
The 1% of bloody red counties include such Democrat strongholds as Philadelphia, New York City, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Dallas, D.C., Miami-Dade, Milwaukee, San Diego, St. Louis, Chicago’s Cook County, L Houston’s Harris County, Detroit’s Wayne County, Memphis’ Shelby County, Pheonix’s Maricopa County, Cleveland’s Cuyahoga County, and many others.
Biden won Cook County, the bloodiest county in the country, by 66%. He won Los Angeles County, the second bloodiest, by 71%, Harris County by 56%, Philadelphia by 81%, New York City by 76%, Wayne County by 68%, and Shelby County by 64%.
Shelby was not only one of the three counties in Tennessee to vote Democrat, it was also responsible for 311 of the state’s 682 murders. Similarly, Wayne County was responsible for 379 of Michigan’s 693 murders. Houston accounted for 405 of the 537 murders in Harris County and along with Dallas’ 251 murders, Austin’s 47, San Antonio’s 128, Fort Worth’s 99, accounted for around half of murders in Texas. Maricopa County made up 299 of the 423 murders in Arizona.
Marion County, where Indianapolis is located, accounted for nearly half of the murders in the state, even though it has less than 10% of the population. Milwaukee was responsible for 201 of Wisconsin’s 308 murders even though it also has less than 10% of the population.
There isn’t a red state murder problem, red states have a Democrat crime problem.
The CPRC study showed that while 2% of counties populated by Democrats were responsible for 56% of the country’s murders, 52% of counties had no murders and 68% of counties had at most one murder.
These numbers clearly show that America is not a violent country, that we do not have a crime problem and that gun culture is not the issue: crime culture in Democrat cities is the issue.
Democrat crime cities and counties have created a massive social problem that otherwise would hardly exist. As the study notes, “If the 1% of the counties with the worst number of murders somehow were to become a separate country, the murder rate in the rest of the US would have been only 4.31 in 2020. Removing the worst 2% or 5% would have reduced the US rate to just 3.71 or 2.99 per 100,000, respectively.” We could have the murder rate of New Zealand.
If it wasn’t for the Democrat crime counties.
America is not a dangerous or crime-ridden country. Unfortunately Democrat cities are overrun with criminals and the politicians who cater to them. The Democrats became an urban party and, after jettisoning the white working class and the small business middle class became the party of criminals. From police defunding to the Black Lives Matter riots to mass jailbreaks and the legalization of drugs and shoplifting in major cities, they embraced pro-crime policies that unleashed a massive crime wave. And now they pretend not to know what’s causing the crime.
“Nationwide, violent crime rose substantially in 2020,” Krugman admitted. “Nobody knows for sure what caused the surge — just as nobody knows for sure what caused the epic decline in crime from 1990 to the mid-2010.”
Tough-on-crime policies cut crime in the 90s and the oughts: pro-crime policies boosted crime.
There’s no mystery here. Crime is caused by repeat offenders. In the 90s we began locking them up and then about 5 years ago, we began letting them go at the federal and state level.
In ‘I Can’t Breathe: How a Racial Hoax Is Killing America’, David Horowitz exposed the lies behind the Black Lives Matter pro-crime movement and warned of the pandemic of crime that was being unleashed. That hoax has unleashed unprecedented violence, but that crime wave largely remains confined to Democrat areas where criminals prey on members of the party.
More than an additional 5,000 people were killed in 2020. There is little doubt that the disproportionate majority of both the victims and the killers were Democrats. Democrat pro-crime policies are killing Americans, but mostly they’re killing fellow Democrats.
An added 5,000 murders alone means $85 billion in costs. That’s a fraction of the money, estimated at half a trillion dollars, that we spend every year coping with the criminal justice and social problems caused by Democrat crime.
America could be a safe and pleasant place to live. And the majority of its counties, which are mostly Republican, are. Unfortunately many of its Democrat counties are broken places, packed with broken families, criminal cultures and leftist politicians who pander to the criminals.
And the party and its media cover it up with lies about systemic racism.
As David Horowitz warned in, ‘I Can’t Breathe: How a Racial Hoax Is Killing America’, the consequences of these lies is more of the same misery, more crime and more death.
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It's a fig leaf. There is a discrete explanation for crime, but it has to do with race, not political party. Period. Full stop.
Black Lives Matter, except in Chicago.
“There is a discrete explanation for crime, but it has to do with race, not political party. Period. Full stop.”
Worth repeating.
And those Dems like to throw out the crime in “red” states to show that it’s the right that like crime ... ignoring the Dem cities in these red states.
Greenfield should be more direct. How about pointing out that 3 percent of Americans commit 50 percent of violent crimes?
No wait. Don’t do that. That would be racist.
It’s not a Democrat problem either. There are plenty of Democrat heavy suburbs of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and San Francisco that don’t have this problem. It’s a problem race that causes this and unless or until the American public wises up and starts speaking truth without fear of being called names, this will continue.
Not all Democrats are black but (almost) all blacks are Deomcrats.
As Chris Rock said, there are blacks and then there are n_____s. And black people hate n_____s, too!
Really wish someone with a voice would call a spade a spade...
Democrats have a black problem...
America has a hyperviolent urban minority problem. Time to let science and data talk on the issue of crime.
These days it is considered racist to present data/facts to the sheeple.
In my opinion, the issue is with “black culture”.
That culture that denigrates education. That glorifies murder, violence and lawlessness. That vilifies law enforcement. That degrades women. That promotes drug abuse. That discourages family. That views employment as slavery. That promotes dependency.
That culture.
Not all blacks subscribe to that toxic “black culture”, and thank goodness for that. But many do, and many whites and latinos as well. And it appears to be universally celebrated in Hollywood and the media.
An honest view of that terrible thing I call “black culture” would go a long way towards understanding the problem.
With the possible exception of Chris Rock. Or at least at one time Chris Rock did speak out against it.
LOL, indeed. His “How Not To Get Your Ass Kicked By The Police” is a classic, and oddly, it isn’t satire. It is funny as Hell, but...it is sound advice.
He is a bit of a dick, but...I think that is a masterpiece!
Also his “Blacks versus N____s” routine.
“Who is more racist, white people or black people? Black people, because we hate black people, too!”
The same with Texas’ problem of Austin. It has become a mini Scat Francisco, with high crime, rampant homelessness, drug addiction/crime and public perversion. It was the sole county to vote NO on our Proposition 2 in 2005, the ballot measure to ensconce the definition of marriage in our state Constitution (passed by over 76% of voters.)
Most state capitals lean left, even in predominantly conservative states.
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