{"id":1687080,"date":"2022-10-12T17:34:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T21:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1687080"},"modified":"2022-10-12T17:34:11","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T21:34:11","slug":"the-lefts-funny-new-lie-its-the-red-states-with-more-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-lefts-funny-new-lie-its-the-red-states-with-more-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"The Left\u2019s Funny New Lie: It\u2019s The \u2018Red States\u2019 With More Crime!"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fthe-lefts-funny-new-lie-its-the-red-states-with-more-crime%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=1687080&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/47998123317_7f49b2a549_k-e1664562349550.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Because Democrats know they\u2019re completely untrustworthy when it comes to law enforcement, having turned virtually every major city <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/07\/30\/the-creepy-weirdness-of-democrats-is-best-understood-when-they-talk-about-law-enforcement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">into a rape and murder zone<\/a>, they\u2019ve made the obvious choice.<\/p>\n<p>No, silly, they haven\u2019t started arresting criminals. They\u2019ve started lying.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a lie told recently by Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom, and then repeated twice this week in The Washington Post. The latest came in a column by Dana Milbank. (Yes, someone actually named their son Dana Milbank.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cViolent crime is generally worse in Republican-run states,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/10\/11\/republican-states-crime-rates-tuberville\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">he wrote<\/a> on Tuesday under the headline, \u201cIt\u2019s just murder living in a red state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The source for that claim, the same one made by Newsom, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thirdway.org\/report\/the-red-state-murder-problem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a report<\/a> published earlier this year by the leftist outfit Third Way. The report observed that \u201cmurder rates are far higher in Trump-voting red states than Biden-voting blue states. And sometimes, murder rates are highest in cities with Republican mayors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To start, the point in correlating crime and Democrat policies has never been that \u201cblue states\u201d are violent hellholes. It was always that Democrat mayors and district attorneys are demonstrably anti-law enforcement, and more interested in racial \u201cequity\u201d than in prosecuting offenders. Again, that\u2019s <em>mayors<\/em> and <em>district attorneys<\/em>, elected officials who serve on the city and county levels, not state. Of course, Republicans have tied every Democrat running for every office to the issue, but the exact line of attack was always in reference to county and city officials.<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, let\u2019s look at the data compiled by Third Way. The report listed 10 states with the highest murder rates in the U.S. using data from 2020. \u201cIn fact, the top per capita murder rate states in 2020 were mostly those far from massive urban centers and Democratic mayors and governors,\u201d the report said. \u201cEight of the top ten worst murder rate states voted for [Donald] Trump in 2020. None of those eight has supported a Democrat for president since 1996.\u201d The authors of the report observed, \u201cThese red states are not generating \u2018murder is out of control\u2019 national headlines. They seem to generate no headlines at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But for this to be a devastating blow to the Democrats-suck-on-crime narrative requires ignoring that in every state, including otherwise red ones, there are densely populated areas that tend to be blue. And it just so happens, more often than not, that\u2019s where the surge in crime has taken place.<\/p>\n<p>The No. 1 state on Third Way\u2019s list is Mississippi. Sure enough, the statewide vote in the 2020 election was for Trump. But within the state, Hinds County residents voted for Joe Biden, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2020-elections\/mississippi-results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">3 to 1.<\/a> Mississippi\u2019s biggest city, Jackson, is in Hinds County. You know where this is going.<\/p>\n<p>Reporting on Jackson last year, CNN declared it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/12\/28\/us\/jackson-mississippi-pandemic-homicides-gun-violence\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cone of the deadliest U.S. cities.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The mayor of Jackson is Chokwe Antar Lumumba, a Democrat. The district attorney is Jody Owens, a Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>No. 2 on the list is Louisiana. Trump won that state, too. But on the more local level, he lost Orleans, the parish that contains New Orleans, the state\u2019s most populous city. Residents there went for Biden almost <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2020-elections\/louisiana-results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">8 to 1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew Orleans had the highest homicide rate of any major city so far this year, with about 41 homicides per 100,000 residents.\u201d\u2014 The Wall Street Journal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/new-orleans-murder-rate-crime-11663338008\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sep. 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The mayor of New Orleans is LaToya Cantrell, a Democrat. The district attorney is Jason Williams, also a Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>No. 3 on the list is Kentucky, another red state that voted to elect Trump. But Kentucky\u2019s biggest city Louisville is in Jefferson County and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2020-elections\/kentucky-results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">60 percent<\/a> of those voters supported Biden.<\/p>\n<p>This is from Kentucky-based think tank Pegasus Institute <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pegasuskentucky.org\/louisville-homicide-violence-crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in August<\/a>: \u201cIn the last decade, the city of Louisville has seen unprecedented increases in shootings and homicides. 2020 became Louisville\u2019s deadliest year on record, and 2021 have proven to continue that trend.\u201d The organization reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wave3.com\/2021\/10\/15\/louisville-outranks-chicago-philadelphia-homicide-rates-data-shows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">last year<\/a> that Louisville\u2019s homicide rate was competing with the likes of Chicago and Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor of Louisville is Greg Fischer, a Democrat. The district attorney is Thomas B. Wine. He is also a Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>Next is Alabama at No. 4, another 2020 red state. But Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2020-elections\/alabama-president-results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">won the most votes<\/a> in the most populous county, also called Jefferson. He won 56 percent to Trump\u2019s 43. Within Jefferson is the city of Birmingham, which has the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/emerging-crime-capitals-america-these-cities-have-highest-murders-per-capita\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">third-highest murder rate<\/a> in all of the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor of Birmingham is Randall Woodfin. He\u2019s a Democrat, just like the district attorney, Danny Carr.<\/p>\n<p>In slot No. 5 is Missouri. Again, a Trump state. And again, with the county containing its biggest city, St. Louis, going for Biden, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2020-elections\/missouri-results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">61 percent to Trump\u2019s 37<\/a>. St. Louis has the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/emerging-crime-capitals-america-these-cities-have-highest-murders-per-capita\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fourth-highest murder rate<\/a> in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor: Tishaura Jones, Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>County prosecuting attorney: Wesley Bell, same.<\/p>\n<p>No. 6 is South Carolina. Trump won that state, but Charleston County, with the city of North Charleston, went for Biden with 56 percent of the vote. North Charleston has the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pictures\/murder-map-deadliest-u-s-cities\/33\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">highest murder rate in the state<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, here we have a city with a mayor, Keith Summey, from the Republican Party. The county solicitor \u2014 Charleston does not have a district attorney \u2014 is Scarlett Wilson, also a Republican.<\/p>\n<p>Not that we\u2019re keeping score, but that brings the number on this list of Republicans who might feasibly be held accountable for raging crime in their cities to a grand total of two. For Democrats, it\u2019s so far 10.<\/p>\n<p>The next two states on Third Way\u2019s report, New Mexico and Georgia, went blue in 2020, so we\u2019ll skip those.<\/p>\n<p>No. 9 is Arkansas, which was red. But again, Pulaski County, with the state\u2019s biggest city of Little Rock, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2020-elections\/arkansas-results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">went blue<\/a> with 60 percent of voters choosing Biden. That city reportedly has one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/247wallst.com\/city\/little-rock-ar-is-among-the-most-dangerous-us-metro-areas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">highest violent crime rates<\/a> in the state. The mayor of Little Rock is Frank Scott, a Democrat. The county prosecutor, Larry Jegley, is a Democrat as well.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, at No. 10, is Tennessee. Another red state with a major blue county that went for Biden. That county here would be Shelby, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2020-elections\/tennessee-president-results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">64 percent<\/a> of the vote going to the president. In Shelby is the city of Memphis, which, according to The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/09\/08\/us\/memphis-shooting-gun-violence.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New York Times<\/a>, \u201cis often ranked among the nation\u2019s most violent cities.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The mayor of Memphis is Jim Strickland, a Democrat. Steve Mulroy, a Democrat, is the recently-elected district attorney.<\/p>\n<p>To recap, of the eight red states listed in Third Way\u2019s report as being among the top 10 with the highest murder rate, the cities where all that murder is happening are run almost exclusively by Democrats. All but one had a Democrat mayor. And all but one had a Democrat responsible for pursuing criminal prosecutions.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats know they\u2019re terrible on law enforcement. Attempting to lie about it only makes the governments they run that more dangerous.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Liberal-Misery-Hateful-Everything-Everyone\/dp\/1637584350\">Liberal Misery: How the Hateful Left Sucks Joy Out of Everything and Everyone<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because Democrats know they\u2019re completely untrustworthy when it comes to law enforcement, having turned virtually every major city into a rape and murder zone, they\u2019ve made the obvious choice. No,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"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-1687080","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\/1687080","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\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1687080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687080\/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=1687080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1687080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1687080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}