3 ms·
Slippery how even their takeaway section switches from cities to states, and who the states voted for. In the top 20 highest murder per capita cities in the US
by simonsarris 5y ago
Slippery how even their takeaway section switches from cities to states, and who the states voted for.
In the top 20 highest murder per capita cities in the US, 18 are democratic mayor, 1 is a former democrat turned independent (Las Vegas), and 1 is republican (Tulsa). It is disingenuous to switch between cities and states like this when trying to assign political causes.
- long_time_gone 5y ago> Slippery how even their takeaway section switches from cities to states, and who the states voted for. Not really. Most of us understand the difference between states and cities. They were trying to head off the argument that you ended up making anyways. > In the top 20 highest murder per capita cities in the US, 18 are democratic mayor, 1 is a former democrat turned independent (Las Vegas), and 1 is republican (Tulsa). Jacksonville has a Republican mayor and a higher murder rate than Tulsa (according to this report), so it appears someone's data is off.
- HideousKojima 5y agoA good example of this is that Utah is highlighted on their map at the top of the article as one of the states with an increasing murder rate. Meanwhile it ignores that the larger cities in the state (like the SLC metro area and Ogden) are far more left-wing than the rest of the state (though probably far less left-wing than a place like San Francisco): https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/us/ut/salt-lake-city/murder-homicide-rate-statistics https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/us/ut/salt-lake-city/murd... Also if you look at the list of cities in the bottom left of my link, a hilarious outlier is the town of Tremonton. Tremonton literally had its only murder in 50 years but since the population of the town is so small it works out to a homicide rate comparable to Costa Rica or Uruguay for the year.