Republican states aren't high-crime states. Only Democrat cities are.
Gov. Gavin Newsom and elements of the media keep making the claim that Republican states ‘red states’ have higher crime than Democrat states or ‘blue states’. This is really one of those ‘lying with statistics’ exercises.
The national political split is in great part an urban-rural split. Crime is an urban problem. That means it’s by definition of a Democrat problem since there’s hardly any such creature as a ‘Republican city’.
One major (and perhaps the biggest difference) between conservative and liberal states is that liberal states revolve around urban areas while in conservative states, urban areas are either so small they’re an afterthought or they’re broken hellholes. Outside of Florida and one or two other cases, there isn’t really an equivalent of L.A. or NYC in conservative states, a wealthy and prosperous city that plays a major role but which also has a sizable criminal underclass.
And so what you really end up with is comparing apples to oranges or L.A. to Jackson, Mississippi (Jackson always comes up when someone is invoking the myth of high-crime red states.) Jackson was formerly run by a leftist black nationalist named Chokwe Antar Lumumba, whose father wanted to create a black separatist city. It’s over 80% black. --->READ MORE HERE
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To hear President Trump tell it, the nation's murder problem is particularly bad in New York City, Chicago, Baltimore, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. — Democratic-run cities in Democratic-led states (or district, in D.C.'s case).
New FBI crime figures from 2024 tell a different story
The big picture: 13 of the 20 U.S. cities with the highest murder rates were in Republican-run states. Many of those cities were run by Democrats who often are at odds with state officials, an Axios analysis of FBI data finds.
State of play: The nation's homicide rate dropped to 5 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — a rate not seen since the Obama era, when overall violent crime rates were hovering around 30-year lows.
Many cities, including those with the highest murder rates, saw declines in homicides. Crime remains a significant concern, but Trump's criticism of big, Democrat-led cities in blue states tells only part of the story.
By the numbers: Eight of the top 10 cities with the highest murder rates and populations of at least 100,000 were in red states — Mississippi, Alabama, Missouri, Tennessee, Ohio and Louisiana, Axios found. ---READ MORE HERE
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