Let’s start a list of cities that have been ravaged by crime for decades and have been controlled by democrats for the same decades.

Here you go. You can get to work attempting to twist these facts 😆

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_crime_rate

@room101

@jackjjackson In case you've completely read and vetted your wiki source...I have a question. What are your thoughts about the sections on the wiki page you linked that give reasons to disregard the chart for the purposes that you are using it here for? Your own source says not to use it.

If you accidently missed that section , I can copy and paste the criticism sections that were clearly labeled below that chart you found for you.

@jackjjackson Oh Jack, there's no need for me to twist anything. As @Scribbles has already explained to you, your own source has done it for me.🤣🤣🤣

@Scribbles You're not coming across in any other way than informed and critical of what you read and hear. Many would do well to follow your example.

You’re fine. Perhaps it’s the fact that crime information is published way more frequently than it was 20 years ago makes it seem crime is on the uptick when in fact it’s remained stable for the last ten years. I wonder why it’s being publicized more. I also wonder why it was publicized less. @Scribbles

@jackjjackson It has nothing to do with the frequency of crime data published.

There is nothing wrong with wanting to conceptualize and compare crime with Republican or democratic run areas. I applaud any questions or hypothesis as long as it is followed up by being able to accurately test it. To do so with scientific accuracy results in alot complex constructs and variables that result in a lot of incomparable data. At best it results in reports and charts that are hundreds of pages long about other variables effecting crime ...even if you only want to compare two cities of equal size and population. Much less a dozen or more cities There is no simple chart for such things. Even the beginnings of such reports have entire chapters dedicated to how to read it.

Digging out Republican vs Democrat as a root issue of crime is like saying the weather in Japan vs the weather along the Yangtze river area in China has significant influence on the weather in California and thus is the cause of the droughts and wildfires, etc. It just doesn't make sense because it's so vague and a very small piece of data of what affects weather systems in California and ultimately doesn't indicate or conceptualize or measure anything significant.

That's my take.

@jackjjackson If I can add to what @Scribbles has said and maybe answer your two questions vis-a-vis:

"........why it’s being publicized more. I also wonder why it was publicized less."

The second question first. We know that, in the last few decades, there have been massive advances in digital technology and a concerted effort by all manner of organisations to make use of those advances. Ergo, government bodies now have the ability to record, collate and analyse data that they didn't have quite so efficiently as they did say twenty years ago. In short, crime data was publicised less twenty years ago because it wasn't as easily available as it is today.

Why is crime data being publicised more? Two answers which feed into each other. The media industry knows that bad news sells. It's really that simple. Politicians know that data which appears to paint the opposition in a bad light will win them votes or, at the very least, keep their loyal supporters voting for them AND spread the narrative that they (the politicians) are creating. A narrative that is rarely congruent with reality. Basically Jack (no offence intended), exactly what you've done with this post🤷‍♂️

Very good analysis except for the last part. When a media laptop runs across something they haven’t been fed they don’t know what to do with it. There there pal you’ll be OK. @room101

@jackjjackson A media laptop????? Care to explain?

I understand that journalism is an alien concept to many Americans, you've made ol' Rupert Murdoch extremely wealthy after all. However, there are (rather shockingly) news disseminators that actually go out of their way to find stuff that hasn't been fed to them.

Maybe try reading one or two. You'll be amazed at the difference between them and the obvious garbage that you consume..........and routinely regurgitate.

You are clueless regarding what I read. Let’s compare. What are the gems you plan to pass on? Typo/autocorrect. Should have read media lapdog. @room101

@jackjjackson It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure out what you read Jack, it's there in the mindless drivel that you insist on posting all the bloody time.

Yes, I knew what you meant to type..........hence my reply🤦‍♂️

I’m still waiting on your literary gems please. @room101