“New data from the FBI shows crime rates fell nationally last year. But Republicans and their favorite media act otherwise.”
“In that context, facts became irrelevant. In a gubernatorial debate in Oklahoma, when Democrat Joy Hofmeister pointed out that the state has a higher violent crime rate than New York or California, incumbent Kevin Stitt could barely contain his laughter. “Hang on, Oklahomans, do you believe we have higher crime than New York or California?” Stitt said with a huge grin. “That’s what she just said!”
Stitt won re-election, but Hofmeister spoke the truth: Oklahoma has long had higher rates of violent crime than California or New York, even though it has also long been run by conservative Republicans. It’s not just Oklahoma. “The states that mostly have the highest rates of homicide are also the most red states,” Snider notes. “The ones with the highest incarcerated populations … consistently have very high crime rates.”
“Almost 80 percent of Americans, and 92 percent of Republicans, think crime has gone up. It actually fell in 2023. An expert blames a familiar culprit for the mistaken impression.”
“The FBI data, which compares crime rates in the third quarter of 2023 to the same period last year, found that violent crime dropped 8%, while property crime fell 6.3% to what would be its lowest level since 1961, according to criminologist Jeff Asher, who analyzed the FBI numbers.
Murder plummeted in the United States in 2023 at one of the fastest rates of decline ever recorded, Asher found, and every category of major crime except auto theft declined.
Yet 92% of Republicans, 78% of independents and 58% of Democrats believe crime is rising, the Gallup survey shows.”
The U.S. is on course to end 2023 with one of the largest annual drops in homicides on record, according to preliminary figures from AH Datalytics, a data analysis firm.
Why it matters: The findings appear to be at odds with Americans’ perception of crime both in their communities and in the rest of the country.
More than three-quarters (77%) of Americans believe crime has increased in the U.S. since last year, according to a Gallup survey of 1,009 adults released last month.
A majority (55%) also said crime was rising in their local area.
“Both figures are similar to what Gallup measured last year and rank among the most pessimistic readings in the respective trends,” the company said.
Regardless of what the GOP and FoxNews tells you, Violent Crime has gone DOWN over the years,
Which city is safer Mike Pence? New York City or Indianapolis?
“Reported violent crime in the U.S. dropped slightly last year from 1,326,600 incidents in 2020 to 1,313,200 in 2021, the FBI said in a new report released Wednesday. The 2020 figure was up 5.6 percent from 2019, however.”
House Republicans voted against the American Rescue Plan’s billions in funding available to keep police officers on the street – and Fox News is asking tough questions about it.”
“Republicans’ vote against the American Rescue Plan — which released funds that some cities are using to hire more police — is now being used against them.”
““Defund the police” means reallocating or redirecting funding away from the police department to other government agencies funded by the local municipality. That’s it. It’s that simple. Defund does not mean abolish policing.”
Let’s Compare some GOP Legislator’s home towns to other towns, shall we?
GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy’s Bakersfield, CA to border town El Paso, TX (The Border!!!)
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