As Andrew Mark Miller reported:
"It is true that red states have higher homicide rates than blue states, but the problem with this is that crime is a hyper-localized phenomenon," the Heritage Foundation’s Kevin Dayaratna told Fox News Digital. "It doesn't make sense to talk about at the state level. It makes sense to talk about at the local level because that's where the prosecutions occur. The local level crime is handled at the local level by local police, so when you look at this question on a local basis, namely the county level, you'll see that the trend is reversed."
Dayaratna said that between 2002 and 2008, there was an 88% higher rate of homicide in blue counties than red counties and between 2014 and 2022 there was a 62% increase.
Crime is a highly localized issue becausedistrict attorneys wield an enormous amount of power over what kind of crimes are prosecuted, and what the penalties are. It’s for this reason that leftist actors such as George Soros have shelled out tens of millions to elect nearly 80 far-left DAs nationwide, as it enables him to weaken law and order in America without having to get through a city council, governor, or state legislature.
In some cities, such as San Francisco, shoplifting has effectively been legalized by non-enforcement, and the lack of consequences makes that particular crime data unreliable since there’s little benefit to retailers in reporting crime. While it’s impossible to know how much thefts are being underreported in places like San Francisco, it’s likely thousands of percent higher than reported. Consider the following; in September of 2021 a single Target store tested out a new reporting system that helped them report more shoplifting incidents to police - and that alone doubled the city’s shoplifting stats for the month.
Matt Palumbo is the author of Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers: How the Left Hijacked and Weaponized the Fact-Checking Industry and The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros
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