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I assume the comment you replied to meant the policies that led to the high crime rate. Which, I know many people who fear people leaving big cities to keep vot
by Akronymus 4y ago
I assume the comment you replied to meant the policies that led to the high crime rate. Which, I know many people who fear people leaving big cities to keep voting for the policies that lead to why they left the city in the first place.
- Retric 4y agoCities crime rates have little to do with their local politics. Giuliani for example got a great deal of praise for lowering crime in NYC but wildly different approaches also seemed to “work” in other cities. Look at a graph of murder rates for LA vs NYC and their surprisingly similar even with very different politics. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/18/us/chicago-murder-problem.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/18/us/chicago-mu... Chicago, NYC, LA, and many other US cities all had similar trends over similar time periods which line up with national trends. https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/murder-homicide-rate https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/murd...
- Yhippa 4y agoAren’t the politics very similar?
- Retric 4y agoNYC had “tough on crime” republican governor’s for about half of that time period. Try and locate their policies on the graph before looking up the details. “Broken Windows” policing was a radically different paradigm that initially got a great deal of praise because it seemed to be working.