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> The Heritage Foundation, sometimes referred to simply as "Heritage", is an activist American conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C. Yeah, thanks f

• flanked-evergl 2y ago
  Bias does not change facts. There is no better time and place to be a criminal in the US than today. Criminals are being coddled, which is why most Democrat cities are so crime-ridden.
  • amanaplanacanal 2y ago
    I’m not sold on this narrative. Which Republican cities are you comparing to?
    • flanked-evergl 2y ago
      The 10 most violent cities in the US are either democrat or independent controlled: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53991722 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53991722
      • vundercind 2y ago
        1) In part because most cities of any size are run by democrats. 2) “over 100,000 population”. This is the factor that prevents these from mostly being “red”. I assume this is because smaller cities and large towns are both more likely than large cities to be run by Republicans, and also more likely to have bad economies, which (the latter) is a pretty good predictor of crime. 3) The second graph with per-capita gets us closer to correct, the first being “this is just a population heat map” levels of useless. Note all the “blue” cities in red states in the second one. I’ve lived in such a city. It was hopelessly hobbled by the state government—anything “blue” it tried to do was outlawed at the state level as soon as they tried to do it. You can’t really treat those as experiments in Democratic governance.
        • flanked-evergl 2y ago
          Republican state government is not preventing Democrat cities from enforcing the law in red states. My point is that criminals are too coddled, not that they are not coddled enough. Preventing democrat cities from coddling criminals even further does not somehow make them less coddled. The Democrat cities coddle criminals as much as they legally can.
          • vundercind 2y ago
            Why are so many Republican-run areas way worse than nearly all democratic-run cities, then, as far as violent crime? I’d say it’s all the poverty in those places, but maybe you’re right and it’s the Republican governments’ fault.
      • amanaplanacanal 2y ago
        The largest cities have the most crime, because they have the most people. And most large cities have Democratic mayors. You could break it down per capita instead, which shows that urban area have the highest violent crime rates, and rural areas have the highest property crime rates. I haven’t been able to find a comparison of cities with Democratic mayors vs cities with Republican mayors.
        • flanked-evergl 2y ago
          > You could break it down per capita instead, The source provided does break it down per capita, and when done so, the 10 most violent cities in the US, measured per capita, are either democrat (9) or independent (1) controlled.
          • sdenton4 2y ago
            There are far more cities with Dem mayors than Republican mayors, so comparing raw counts is pretty meaningless. (Similar to counting comparing total homicide instead of per capita.) There are 10 Republican mayors amongst the 50 largest cities, and furthermore, these are heavily concentrated at the low end. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mayors_of_the_50_largest_cities_in_the_United_States https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mayors_of_the_50_lar... It turns out the relationship between crime and population is non linear, and that nonlinearity is also true outside of the US and it's political context. https://crimesciencejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40163-021-00155-8 https://crimesciencejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11... So, what you're seeing is bigger cities with higher per capita rates due to the underlying relationship between population density and crime. It also happens to be the case that in the US, urban areas strongly prefer Democratic mayors.
            • flanked-evergl 2y ago
              I did not compare raw counts, I compared per capita counts.
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      • matwood 2y ago
        While not a straight line down, all crime has been falling since the 90s. People's perception differs from reality. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/04/24/what-the-data-says-about-crime-in-the-us/ https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/04/24/what-the-...
  • Hnrobert42 2y ago
    While I dislike your arguments, I have to agree with their correctness. Most of them. Having had relatives had relatives in jail, they are not coddled. Yes, it is better than the past, but in all ways jail, let alone prison, is much worse than being on the outside.
    • flanked-evergl 2y ago
      I don't mean to suggest people are coddled in Prison. I don't particularly like law enforcement, or prison staff. I think the majority of them are crooked, either by direct action or by indirect action. However, prosecutors in many cities refuse to prosecute many classes of crime, and are elected on this basis [1]. In my view, this just contributes to what makes them crooked. They refuse to enforce the law as it is on the books. This is not justice. [1]: https://thefga.org/research/soros-district-attorneys-make-cities-unsafe-elections-less-secure/ https://thefga.org/research/soros-district-attorneys-make-ci...
      • Hnrobert42 2y ago
        One could argue they are elected not to prosecute every single crime committed but to use discretion in what they prosecute to maximize good given their limited resources. If all they did was prosecute every crime to the fullest extent, they would not need to be elected.