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.
>>As Chris Rock said, there are blacks and then there are n_____s. And black people hate n_____s, too!<<
I believe this to be true. There are great black leaders such as Larry Elder, Dr. Carson, Thomas Sowell, Candice Owens to name a few.
Its got to be embarrassing for them to watch what is happening in the inner cities and the multitude of videos out there documenting black culture failure.
The racial aspect and political aspects are siamese twins that cannot be separated. Democrats would not be in office in many (most?) places without race-based voting and politics. The elected politicians naturally pander to those who put them in office. A significant portion of that group embraces the idea that the prevailing legal/law & order regimen was produced by the majority “white” culture, thus reflecting white values about crime, rather than their own.
Blacks don't have to specifically subscribe to the toxic "black culture" to contribute to the rot taking over decency in our country. They merely have to mindlessly pull the lever every time for whatever dimmocommie is running for office, particularly if they're black. They don't research who the candidate is, what they've done in the past, what issues they support--if they're D and especially if they're black, that's good enough. I met an otherwise nice black woman in the supermarket checkout line last night. I shared with her that a certain item was not available and chuckled, "Biden strikes again!" She asked me why Biden had anything to do with that item being unavailable. I was about to tell her about transportation problems due to gas prices, but she averred that the reason for the shortages was COVID and had NOTHING to do with Biden. She then kicked into high gear to hasten her way out of the store, rather than have her precious, if incorrect, MSNBC/CNN/NYT view challenged. I have found this pretty typical with conversations with blacks, with a few welcome exceptions. So how can you improve the quality of life in cities like Detroit and Baltimore if this is typical of the voting populace?
A tiny minority of Americans commit a majority of murders in America.
That tiny minority is young(ish) black men, in cities run by black democRAT politicians.
The democRATs don’t get a pass; they enact policies which encourage criminality in general and murder in particular.
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.
The fact that the decent blacks sit back and do nothing is the problem. There are only like 3 I know of... Like Thomas sowell(sp?)...
That makes them all guilty in my book...
TLDR.
Take it a step further: What is the race and percentage thereof the majority?
That isn’t a race issue-we have plenty of people of all races who do just that and contributed to the problem. Heck, the number of whites who do just that far outnumber any blacks who do.
However, percentage is important too. The Left has been used to a monolithic block voting in their favor. I believe that percentage is trending downward, slightly.
I have, in my analysis in the past, looked at that figure. Black males make up around 6% of the population.
And while I have read that 70% of black males in an age range have a felony conviction, not all of those are for violent crimes. (the number isn’t 50% of violent crime, it is more like 40%, but that is using the definitions of violent crime at the FBI UCR Database (which anyone can access) which specifically defines it as murder, rape, armed robbery, assault and battery, etc. (It has been a while since I looked, I can’t remember, but there is some category of assault or battery, possibly involving use of a weapon the classifies it as a felony violent assault)
But still pretty bad.
My guess is the problem is even more stark: it is 1-2% of the population accounting for nearly 40% of the violent crime, which is damning.
Imagine if you live in a small village of 100 people, and 2 people were responsible for 40% of the violence? That wouldn’t last long, at least at some points in the past.
I have to disagree with you on that approach. We, as humans, categorize and that is what we do. It is in our nature. But I think you are casting too wide a net.
I think where we do agree is that solutions to this won’t come externally from the white community.
It has to begin with the black community. The question is, can it?
No it can’t and that is precisely why nothing is being done about it and everything is being done to excuse it!!
That is, I think, closer to the root of the problem. Until the people who live near the root of the problem understand that it is going to require action on their part to remedy the situation, the buck is going to get passed.
Legislators will throw legislation and wasted money at the problem to virtue signal, show how “down with the struggle” they are, and buy votes, but it won’t fix the problem.
What percentage of the US population lives in those counties?
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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.”
Yep. Conservatives are so frightened of being called “racists” that they refuse to even mention that elephant in the room.
That word is one of the most powerful weapon the left has against us.
And WE give it that power by cowering at the mere mention of it.
Until we learn to embrace the insult, and thus disarm it, they’ll have us on the run.
That’s why I always say... where is Slobadon Milosevic when you need him!!??
That happens because democRat policies enable it.
Being called a “RACIST” means absolutely nothing to me, when EVERYTHING is RACIST, then nothing is RACIST!
When I am called a “RACIST”, I just look at that person and ask them; AND YOUR POINT IS?
Not entirely true.Murder is an IQ problem....not a race problem.The lower your IQ is the more likely it is that you’ll murder someone.
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