11-22-2021, 03:51 PM
(11-22-2021, 03:43 PM)Benton Wrote: 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.
So St. Louis isn't a heavily Dem area? The entirety of the state doesn't have these high crime rates, St. Louis does. The state being red as a whole doesn't matter when we're talking about a specific geographic area that is deep blue.
(11-22-2021, 03:44 PM)GMDino Wrote: So the answer is yes they are still prosecuting theft.
That's what you got out of it?
Quote:I'm sure there is a subset around here that wants every criminal found guilty and locked up/fined but it sure looks like there is a reason the prosecutions dropped for petty and misdemeanor cases.
This seems to be a far cry from they "stopped prosecuting" certain crimes and has slid into hyperbole.
Sure, dropping from 70% prosecution under a very "progressive" DA to 44% under an even more radical DA, that's not statistically significant at all. Here's a little tidbit for you, shoplifting is an extremely easy crime to prove. If you're only prosecuting half of the offenses people are arrested for then you're not doing your job as the DA, regardless of what the crime is. But keep acting like you know when you don't. People will get sick of this shit eventually and even those with their head in the sand will eventually have to own the truth.
