Comment Re:Let see if Putins reciprocates (Score 2) 170
Republican-run cities have a significantly higher crime rate than the states they are in as well. This is not a surprise, nor a differentiator. A lot of crime occurs in cities because there are more potential victims. It's a target-rich environment.
That doesn't change the fact most of the crime happens in the cities, and cities are far far more likely to be run by democrats. Which was the original point.
Let's also not forget that these crime statistics are frequently misleading. Since you didn't provide any citations, we can't find out if you're making useful comparisons. For example, in this country wage theft exceeds all other theft combined. But is it accounted for in your statistics, or are you looking at a subset of crimes? We don't know, because you didn't provide cites.
The person I replied to specified murder rate, those stats are not misleading. And the person I was replying to didn't provide citations either, so it's interesting that you objected to my post instead of his. But in any case the murder rate stats were not cited by either of us because they are easy to find and those numbers are not in dispute. After all you yourself several claims without citation:
"Republican-run cities have a significantly higher crime rate than the states they are in as well." statistics and citations?
Or how about "A lot of crime occurs in cities because there are more potential victims." statistics and citations?
"For example, in this country wage theft exceeds all other theft combined." Source?
But please don't bother looking those citations. Lets not be pedantic and just admit that your objection has nothing to do with the lack of citations.
And finally, I have no idea why you would bring up wage theft estimates in a discussion about murder rates. Especially if you're objecting to the quality of the data.