11-22-2021, 01:47 PM
(11-22-2021, 01:28 PM)Nately120 Wrote: Some of the highest violent crime per capita areas are in very un-liberal places, though. Americans are just unreasonably criminal for a developed nation where being locked up is significantly worse than being free. The fact that we are so into arguing which "side" is more responsible for it probably doesn't help our image.
This is, unfortunately, not true. While it is certainly true that there are cities within red states with high crime rates it is overwhelmingly the case that those cities are run by Dem controlled governments. Maybe even as recent as four years ago I would have agreed with you entirely, but the recent years have contained an avalanche of horrible policy from Dem administrations that have weakened, or eliminated, punishment for criminal activity and emboldened criminals while simultaneously demonizing law enforcement. I see it literally every day I am at work. Things have never been close to this bad at any other time in my 20+ years of doing this job. I don't even have to trust my own two eyes, I can't tell you how many law abiding citizens express to me their fear of the current soft on crime climate.
