”The Two-Decade Red State Murder Problem”
“Republicans have made crime a major selling point over the past several elections. In 2020 and 2022, they ran ads accusing Democratic candidates of wanting to “defund the police”– a position held by only a handful of fringe Democratic officeholders. Republican-aligned Fox News aired, on average, 141 segments on crime across weekdays in the two months leading up to the midterms. In the week after the midterm, their coverage of violent crime dropped by 50%.”
“The murder rate in Trump-voting states has exceeded Biden-voting states every year this century”
“If Biden states had the same murder rate as Trump states, they would have seen 5,000 more murders in 2020 alone. Between 2000 and 2020, they would have suffered an additional 45,400 murders”
“The top 10 murder rate states are increasingly dominated by Trump-voting states”
“Even when large cities are removed from red states, murder rates are still higher”
“On a typical day, about 65 Americans are murdered. If we watch the cable networks, we’re likely to hear about one of them. The one that is chosen often fits a narrative that is as familiar as it is shallow. It may cohere with a political point a network wants to make – chaos in Democratic cities, an illegal immigrant committing a brazen and lethal act. Usually, it’s a murder in New or Los Angeles, two cities that actually have murder rates far lower than many states”
https://www.thirdway.org/report/the-...murder-problem
But, but, but, NYC is a shithole
“Republicans have made crime a major selling point over the past several elections. In 2020 and 2022, they ran ads accusing Democratic candidates of wanting to “defund the police”– a position held by only a handful of fringe Democratic officeholders. Republican-aligned Fox News aired, on average, 141 segments on crime across weekdays in the two months leading up to the midterms. In the week after the midterm, their coverage of violent crime dropped by 50%.”
“The murder rate in Trump-voting states has exceeded Biden-voting states every year this century”
“If Biden states had the same murder rate as Trump states, they would have seen 5,000 more murders in 2020 alone. Between 2000 and 2020, they would have suffered an additional 45,400 murders”
“The top 10 murder rate states are increasingly dominated by Trump-voting states”
“Even when large cities are removed from red states, murder rates are still higher”
“On a typical day, about 65 Americans are murdered. If we watch the cable networks, we’re likely to hear about one of them. The one that is chosen often fits a narrative that is as familiar as it is shallow. It may cohere with a political point a network wants to make – chaos in Democratic cities, an illegal immigrant committing a brazen and lethal act. Usually, it’s a murder in New or Los Angeles, two cities that actually have murder rates far lower than many states”
https://www.thirdway.org/report/the-...murder-problem
But, but, but, NYC is a shithole
