You reap what you sow....

[Benton]

(11-22-2021, 02:18 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: DC is bad, always has been (no not a reference to the meme), but it's not even on the tope ten.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2021/09/27/detroit-most-violent-big-us-cities-fbi-uniform-crime-report-2020/5883984001/

Now, this list is handicapped by the following;




But let's role with what we have.  The following cities appear on the list in the following order;

1.  Memphis, TN  -Run by Dems

2.  Detroit, MI  -Run by Dems 

3.  St. Louis, MO  -Run by Dems

4.  Little Rock, AR  - Run by Dems

5.  South Bend, IN  - Run by Dems

6.  Cleveland, OH  -Run by Dems

7.  Milwaukee, WI  -Run by Dems

8.  Kansas City, MO  -Run by Dems

9.  Lansing,  MI  -Run by Dems

10.  Springfield, MO  -Mayor is listed as an Independent and good luck finding information on party affiliation for the city council.

As an aside, the three cities the data notes were left off that traditionally are on this list; Baltimore, Philadelphia and Birmingham are all three heavily Dem.


Now, I realize that cities tend to vote Dem.  I also realize that cities will generally have more crime than rural areas.  But I think you drastically underestimate how much local government affects policing and the criminal justice system.  That's why there's been this recent push to elect "progressive" DA's, because they realize how much power and influence they wield.  With disastrous results I might add.

Eh that's not super convincing.

Those may be metro areas where there's more democrats, but the majority of those are heavily red. Local government has an effect, sure, but Missouri is a very republican state. The last four years I was there about every other weekend. You'd have thought trump lived there.