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.

@JohnRing The violent crime rate all over America plunged after peaking in the early 1990s. The "Freakonomics" authors credited Roe v. Wade, along with banning tetraethyllead additives in gasoline. However, this doesn't explain similar drops in violent crime in Europe where those factors weren't present.