{"id":1385373,"date":"2022-03-17T00:21:22","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T04:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1385373"},"modified":"2022-03-17T00:21:25","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T04:21:25","slug":"democrats-aim-to-flip-crime-script-issue-report-blaming-red-states-for-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-aim-to-flip-crime-script-issue-report-blaming-red-states-for-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Aim to Flip Crime Script, Issue Report Blaming Red States for Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrats-aim-to-flip-crime-script-issue-report-blaming-red-states-for-wave%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1385373&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Democrats, in the latest attempt to blame Republicans and rile up the base before the midterms, issued a report saying that states that voted for former President Trump have a more significant crime wave than those that voted for President Biden.<\/p>\n<p>The left-wing-aligned \u201cthink tank\u201d called\u00a0Third Way, trying to shift the blame and defeat a\u00a0major Republican talking point, published a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thirdway.org\/report\/the-red-state-murder-problem?utm_source=newsletter&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&#038;stream=top\">report<\/a> called\u00a0\u201cThe Red State Murder Problem,\u201d which shows the murder rate per capita\u00a0was\u00a0the highest in the six states that voted for\u00a0Trump in 2020 and the highest in the top eight of ten in the states that voted for the Republican presidential nominee in every election this century.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The report claims that the American people should not believe the \u201cattention-grabbing headlines\u201d from\u00a0news outlets \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/cities-record-homicides-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FOX News<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/01\/03\/us\/homicide-rate-us-statistics\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN,<\/a>\u00a0and the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/09\/27\/us\/fbi-murders-2020-cities.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>\u2014 giving an example headline, \u201cUS cities hit all-time murder records\u201d:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Every news outlet from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/cities-record-homicides-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FOX<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/01\/03\/us\/homicide-rate-us-statistics\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/09\/27\/us\/fbi-murders-2020-cities.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times<\/a> to local newspapers has a story with attention-grabbing headlines like \u201cUS cities hit all-time murder records.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/transcript\/gutfeld-violent-crime-liberal-run-cities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a> and Republicans have jumped on this and framed it as a \u201cDemocrat\u201d problem. They blame it on Democrat\u2019s \u201csoft-on-crime\u201d approach and have even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/gowdy-obliterates-manhattan-district-attorney-crime-approach-dangerously-stupid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">referred<\/a> to a New York District Attorney\u2019s approach as \u201chug-a-thug.\u201d Many news stories outside of Fox have also purported that police reform is responsible for this rise in murder and have pointed to cities like New York and Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The current narrative around crime and murder is convenient and wrong. Whether you\u2019re watching CNN or Fox News, or getting news online or from a traditional newspaper, you would think that the increase in murder is a phenomenon found mostly in liberal cities. Many have tried attributing this increase to Democratic policies, specifically police reform. Republican lawmakers and ad makers have contributed to this narrative through clever messaging and strategies.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In fact, the report from the \u201cthink tank\u201d showed that they believe Fox News and Republicans as a whole are trying to play the blame game by saying\u00a0Democrats have taken the \u201csoft-on-crime\u201d approach despite some national and local Democrats lobbying for defunding the police.<\/p>\n<p>But, it also acknowledged that many news stories indicate \u201cpolice reform is responsible for this rise in murder and noting that\u00a0\u201cblue\u201d cities \u2014\u00a0Chicago, Baltimore,\u00a0Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York, and\u00a0Philadelphia \u2014\u00a0have seen a \u201cpersistent increase in homicides.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report claimed, \u201cA more accurate conclusion from the data is that Republicans do a far better job blaming others for high murder rates than actually reducing high murder rates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It also noted that the\u00a025 states that voted for Donald Trump had the higher average,\u00a08.20 murders per 100,000 residents, and have not tried to defund the police, while the\u00a025 states that voted for Joe Biden had a lower average,\u00a05.78 murders per 100,000 residents.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0\u201cthink tank\u2019s\u201d EVP for policy told Axios:\u00a0\u201cRepublicans seem\u00a0to do a much better job of talking about stopping crime than stopping crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobmbliss\"><i>Twitter<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats, in the latest attempt to blame Republicans and rile up the base before the midterms, issued a report saying that states that voted for former President Trump have a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1385373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1385373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1385373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1385373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1385373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}