Marc Thiessen is a guest columnist and his article is what's known as an opinion piece. He isn't a journalist. He is primarily a lobbyist and has also been a speechwriter. His past associates are a veritable "Who's Who" of GOP nonsense. Oops. Almost forgot. Also a FOX News contributor. What a stellar resume for being a BS artist.
NYC has a terrible crime problem, has gone through the roof. It was one of the safest big cities under Rudy Giuliani but since then it has gotten terrible. Why do you think Eric Adams got elected? He's a former police captain who campaigned on bringing crime down. He hasn't. A major reason that NYC and other Democratic controlled cities have such high crime rates is many of them elected district attorneys who were supported by George Soros. Every last one of them once in office stopped enforcing the law on many crimes including violent crimes. Turned felonies into misdemeanors. Stopped requiring bail and often let criminals back on the street shortly after their arrest. That has even resulted in people being murdered shortly after a violent criminal was arrested and allowed to walk. Unfortunately someone like you will defend that because it's a Democrat doing it. Not a few cases. Happening all over the country and clearly an agenda. So are you for cleaning up crime or do you turn a blind eye because you're more concerned about keeping power?
So ol' Mark got one over on the Washington Post editors?
Not necessarily. It looks like both sides cherry-picked the data and presented it to make their side look good. I think Third Way/Newsweek did a poor job, and I think Thiessen misrepresented the story to make it look like a purely Democratic problem. A good example of why we should all get our information from multiple sources and then check to see what their agenda is.
FOX has liberals on every day who make all the standard liberal arguments. And the fact is in a state like Missouri if you get outside of the greater St. Louis and Kansas City areas crime goes way down. So to say that Missouri is a high crime red state isn't accurate. Crime is primarily a big city problem and in cities where the police have seen reduced funding and criminals are put right back on the street we've seen dramatic spikes in crime. So much so that Florida especially has seen a big up tick in wealthy newcomers fleeing high crime cities. That erodes those cities' tax base and further exacerbates the problems. Something it appears they didn't account for when they decided to push these policies. This is real world results for woke policies. If you're fine dealing with that to create a woke world more power to you. Most aren't.
Interesting point, as in it makes no sense. You can't just remove St. Louis and Kansas City and then say it's a low-crime Red State. They are still part of Missouri and , therefore, also part of a high-crime Red State. Take away Los Angeles and The Bay Area and you have a low-crime California too. As usual, your argument isn't logical.
What you don't see is the total number of crimes. In areas and suburbs of St. Louis the population is higher than the total population of Springfield and the rate of crime in those areas the crime rate is much much higher than Springfield. The safe areas of St. Louis have a much lower crime rate thus giving the whole city area an overall lower rate.
The difference is Missouri is a red state overall in spite of its blue cities. California is a blue state because of its blue cities. They control the political process in California. Missouri has an overall high crime rate because of its blue cites, not in spite of.
You're making the same cherry-picking argument that Marc Thiessen made in his WaPo piece. California is very Red once you leave the blue areas (where the vast majority live and work), and the Red areas hate the fact that 90% of the population actually control the state. Never mind that the Blue cities subsidize the poor Red cities because they have few good jobs and almost no industry.
The land area isn't the State when it's about the vote. Where the Dems control the big cities in California is where the bulk of the population is. Thus a blue state. Missouri's biggest cities might be majority blue but there are enough red voters in them plus the rest of the state to make it red. You can call it a high crime red state all you want but the most crime in the state is in the two largest metro areas that are majority blue and at least on of them has a Soros backed DA who's soft on crime. That was Thiessen's point, that even in red states the source of most of the crime is in Democrat controlled big cities.
So NOW she wants to speak the truth on crime?
She was one of the causes of it. Democrats are mentally ill.
Not staying to pay taxes is racist you know.
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UnSoft on crime District Attorney Kim Foxx, has to go.
Teenagers charged with MISDEMEANORS killing infant in stolen car wreck
The boys are accused of stealing a sedan and crashing it into a pickup truck, killing six-month-old Cristian Uvidia and injuring his sisters and mother.www.dailymail.co.uk
- The boys are accused of stealing a sedan and crashing it into a pickup truck, killing six-month-old Cristian Uvidia and injuring his sisters and mother
- Despite the severity of their actions, the two boys were each charged with misdemeanors of criminal trespassing for the theft of the car
- There were two others riding in the car with the 14 and 17 year old boys. Their identity is unknown, and it remains unclear if they will face any charges.
ing believable!
