Washington Post: It doesn’t matter
that the most violent cities in
America are run by Democrats
Hot Air,
by
John Sexton
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
6/28/2020 4:25:53 AM
I missed this when it was published Thursday. The Washington Post’s Philip Bump did a fact-check of sorts on a claim made by President Trump: “You hear about certain places like Chicago and you hear about what’s going on in Detroit and other — other cities, all Democrat run,” he said. “Every one of them is Democrat run. Twenty out of 20. The 20 worst, the 20 most dangerous are Democrat run.”
It’s not clear how Trump is defining “most dangerous” in this context. So let’s look at two related sets of data compiled
Reply 1 - Posted by:
OBX Pete 6/28/2020 6:02:31 AM (No. 459640)
We are being invaded by bunch of evil hoodlums which is well-planned and financed . This is WAR and cannot be won with rubber "bullets" which bounce off the target and are no more effective than a water pistol or a bee sting. These "demonstrations" have turned into acts of demolition. If these invaders watch a few of their comrades drop in front of them they will scatter like a bunch of ants and run home to mama.
When you are at war you don't use blank ammo...…...you shoot to kill.
This is the only way our country will survive if it isn't too late !!!
67 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 6/28/2020 6:42:12 AM (No. 459649)
Those cities look like war zones. Sad but true. I have no intentions of going to any of them.
57 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
planetgeo 6/28/2020 7:25:50 AM (No. 459669)
The statistics aren't just correlation (as the WaPo incorrectly infers), they areevidence of causation. Democrats are soft on crime and criminals by ideology. Being soft on crime and criminals fosters an anything goes mentality across the population. That increases the numbers, types, and severity of the crimes in that population.
Democrat cities become unlivable hellholes.When they run out of statues to break and businesses to loot, they're coming after you. It's only a matter of time and circumstance.
45 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
Lazyman 6/28/2020 7:28:35 AM (No. 459674)
If you care about your life and want to avoid being caught in a crossfire stay out of Dim areas.
31 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
Paperpuncher 6/28/2020 7:51:01 AM (No. 459688)
More evidence that you get what you vote for!
33 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 6/28/2020 7:54:39 AM (No. 459694)
Notice - - pay attention - - that the fake WaPoo didn't show a chart of cities with the LEAST crime.
Those would all be Pubbie-run cities. But - - I guess that wouldn't make a difference either to lying, evil leftists.
Don't believe your own lying eyes - - believe the commies.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 6/28/2020 8:21:00 AM (No. 459731)
What #1 said. Deaths at the hands of the riotous mob are non-combatant elderly, a few people mobbed defending some statue or store. The death toll at this point is lopsided with us losing. Until we fight back or law enforcement fights back with real bullets this will continue. It wouldn't take too many deaths on the side of the mob if they found out we are serious too. Make those statue not worth dying for and it will end.
17 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
stablemoney 6/28/2020 8:27:51 AM (No. 459739)
It doesn't matter that one of the biggest liars in the propaganda industry is ran by the WaPo, because everybody knows it, and pays it no attention. WaPo is financed by a billionaire, because they are unable to finance themselves with subscribers, who won't pay for it, and largely don't exist.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bighambone 6/28/2020 11:00:41 AM (No. 459867)
In reality it matters an awful lot because those violent inner cities have been run by liberal Democrat lawyer-politicians for the last fifty years or for at least several decades. As it is in those cities where the leftist and liberal Democrats along with their apparacheks, and operatives, some connected to or members of known anarchist groups, and the so-called mainstream (liberal) media are claiming that the local police departments in those inner cities are rift with institutional racism, and must either be abolished, defunded, or reimagined.
If that is so, the question should be, where have those leftist and liberal Democrats, and their Police Chief appointees, many of them liberal Black Police bureaucrats, been for the last fifty years, or many decades, while allowing their police departments to continue to exist over all that time as institutional racist organizations? Clearly asleep at the switch! Lately the Democrats have been claiming that the public employees labor unions have been protecting racist police, but over the years it has been the Democrats who have received major support from those unions, and in return have been supporting those unions all along.
So how can the Democrats believe they can get away with falsely blaming President Trump who has only been in office for three and a half years at the federal level with no authority to administer local police, and the Republicans who have had little or no political power in those inner cities, for the claimed racist state of those local police departments, that have in reality been run by Democrats for decades? Only one reason, the Democrats believe that they can continue to “snow” enough of their low information identity based constituency groups, as they have been doing for decades, to get away with doing that again.
6 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
Arby 6/28/2020 11:02:27 AM (No. 459869)
Don't trust statistics and chop logic, trust your own eyes. NYC was different under Giuliani, manifestly different. His policies were different and the results were different. Period. Full stop.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 6/28/2020 11:17:36 AM (No. 459888)
Yes it matters, because it is a cause and effect relationship. The REASON that they are most violent is that the Democrats in charge don't do anything to control their criminals.
7 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
Kafka2 6/28/2020 11:52:22 AM (No. 459923)
It should be noted that NYC crime rate was high when Rudy Giuliani, a Republican, took office. The city had been run by Democrats in the past. Under Giuliani, the crime rate was greatly reduced due to diligent policing at his direction. Under De Blasio, a Democrat, crime has shot up because he undid the policies of Giuliani and tide the hands of the police. With rare exception, the cities where burning, looting, and violence have taken place, the hands of the police have been tided by Democrat mayors.
This screams a cause and effect relationship between Democrats and high crime.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
HotRod 6/28/2020 12:11:45 PM (No. 459951)
I suppose that the democrat cities simply have more freedoms:
The Freedom to riot.
The Freedom to destroy property.
The Freedom to steal and loot.
The Freedom from obeying the law.
The Freedom to harm people.
The Freedom from responsibility.
The Freedom to violate the Constitution.
I would remind those cities, and the thugs permitted to act there, that freedom isn't free. You will pay!
5 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
Catfur27 6/28/2020 1:34:40 PM (No. 460064)
...seems to me that there is also ONE other commonality to all these formerly nice American cities ...that are now lawless predator zones ...??...hmmm...WHO owes whom reparations???
1 person likes this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
RedWhite&Blue2 6/28/2020 1:45:36 PM (No. 460073)
Two America’s
Theirs is what’s wrong
Ours is what’s right
4 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
little guy 6/28/2020 4:01:08 PM (No. 460156)
As #6 points out above, a list of the safest cities with low crime rates is dominated by Republicans. Also, please remember, Jacksonville has a Republican mayor who replaced a big Dem --- but in its 155 years of existence, Republicans have "ruled" Jacksonville for about 21. And none from 1888 to 1968!
It is not the urbanity that causes high crime in cities, it is a lack of discipline. Just like some of the brattiest kids you'll ever meet belong to parents who tolerate their bratty behavior. Those parents tend to be mainly "progressive" and thus Dem.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
starboard 6/28/2020 4:09:51 PM (No. 460159)
When property taxes go sky high and they can't sell their house because of the mess and violence as well as lack of buyers they will change their tune.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
4Justice 6/28/2020 5:18:30 PM (No. 460198)
Democrats turn cities into hellholes on purpose. That way, they can commit corruption and allow chaos to rule at the same time. Eventually, they expect people to get fed up and either leave (to turn a other city into a hellhole) or to demand order allowing them to gain more authoritarian power over the population (their ultimate goal everywhere). This after they have been able to change the voting laws and gerrymandering districts, allowing them to commit election fraud without consequences. It is all part of a greater concerted effort to take over the country and get rich doing so. They took California and Virginia. They are in the process of taking others now.
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