OPINION: Despite the posturing and propagandizing, these “tough on crime” Republican states should perhaps envy reform-minded California’s success.
Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi and Missouri — all pro-Trump states — have the five highest murder rates in the country. Republicans love to pretend they know better than Democrats. They self-righteously decry crime and drugs, falsely blaming Democratic policies for bad outcomes.
Take crime, for example. The GOP presents crime as a simple problem to fix. Just flood the streets with police and impose draconian sentences for even low-level offenses. But there’s a major glitch in the narrative: Republican states tend to have higher rates of violent crime than Democratic states. “In 2020, per capita murder rates were 40% higher in states won by Donald Trump than those won by Joe Biden,” according to “,” a report from Third Way, a Washington think tank. “Eight of the 10 states with the highest murder rates in 2020 voted for the Republican presidential nominee in every election this century.”
Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi and Missouri — all pro-Trump states — have the five highest murder rates in the country. On the city level, let’s compare San Francisco and Jacksonville, Fla., which have similar population sizes.
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