Old Joe got pushed to almost midnight on Monday. The worst possible time slot. Putting the maximum distance between him and Cacklin' Kamala. A sad display. The unified convention? Let's see. Old Joe was ousted in a coup. He is not speaking to the Dem leadership including Pelosi, Schumer, or Obama. The Clintons hate everyone. Protestors are marching by the thousands. The Dem governed city of Chicago is a murder capitol. So much joy.
According to data from the Third Way, in 2021, these GOP-led cities had a higher murder rate than democrat-led New York City: Miami and Jacksonville, FL; Fresno, CA; Omaha, NE; Colorado Springs, CO and Tulsa and Oklahoma City, OK. The Third Way think-tank reported:
"The excuse that sky high red state murder rates are because of their blue cities
is without merit. Even after removing the county with the largest city from red
states, and not from blue states, red state murder rates were still 20% higher
in 2021 and 16% higher in 2022."
"But we shouldn’t have to remove these cities from our analysis because blue
cities in red states are still beholden to red state laws. Laws that make it easy
for criminals to traffic and buy guns (86% of homicides are committed with a gun).
Laws that under-invest in cities, law enforcement, and social programs. Laws
that are responsible for the highest poverty rates and the highest gun violence
rates in the country. The fact that murder rates are high all across red states,
not just in cities, tells us that state laws play a part in their crime problem."
"Using the 2021 Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances from
the US Census Bureau, we analyzed police spending in all 50 states. We found
that blue states spent 33% more money per capita on policing than red states.
In 2021, blue states on average spent $453.67 per resident on policing while
red states only spent $341.37 per resident."
It's a myth that Blue States "de-fund" the police; that happens in the Red States. In 2021 and 2022, the Red State murder rate was one-third higher than the Blue State murder rate. Of the ten states with the highest murder rates in 2022, eight voted for Der Fuhrer in both 2016 and 2020.
