Part 5: >Should all of America have as much crime as Oakland, Chicago, New York City, L.A., and Portland? Right, you know that's not true? If we go by violent

Part 5: >Should all of America have as much crime as Oakland, Chicago, New York City, L.A., and Portland? Right, you know that's not true? If we go by violent crime by capita it's all republican in the top 10: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ... Only exception being California because of robbery, which surprise, surprise is because criminals around the country aren't stupid and will go where-ever the most rich people per capita live, aka. places you bought up. According to both the Manhattan Institute and the NY Post, The “red state murder problem” meme, ignores that in many states, the murder rate is significantly a function of the state’s biggest cities, which are often quite blue, have a Democrat mayor, and are quite dangerous. Criminal homicide is primarily (which does not mean entirely) a problem that resides within large cities. The 50 largest cities in America, home to 15.3% of the country’s population, saw 34.2% of the country’s murders in 2020; 34, or 68%, of the 50 cities had Democratic mayors in 2020, while only 14 (six of which were in blue states that voted for Biden in 2020) had Republican mayors. The homicide rate in the blue cities was 15.8 per 100,000, compared to 9.4 per 100,000 in the red cities and 10.9 per 100,000 in the two cities with Independent mayors. Also a little common sense (which is lately in short supply) says defunding the police and decriminalizing crime (instead of rolling back legislation, which the Democratic party has forgotten how to do) has the exact effect you’d expect it would have. California had pretty much legalized crime by not prosecuting misdemeanors anymore. Subsequently shoplifting under $1000 became normalized. This is in contrast with Texas where laws regarding misdemeanors are enforced and prosecuted too and there aren’t liberal movements to defund the police. I mentioned Oakland, NYC, Chicago, L.A., and Portland, but have you seen how bad Kensington Ave of Philadelphia has become? It has become the most famous Avenue in all of America — for all the wrong reasons.