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Wednesday, October 26th, 2022

Republicans love to blame Democratic policies for violent crime. These studies debunk those claims

Author:     Alex Henderson
Source:     AlterNet
Publication Date:     October 21, 2022
 Link: Republicans love to blame Democratic policies for violent crime. These studies debunk those claims
Stephan:   The Republican bloviation on crime is not fact-based. Here are some facts. Why the Democrats can't seem to put together an effective response to the Republicans, I think, arises from their failure to understand what is motivating voters.
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on June 18, 2020 during a roundtable discussion with governors and small business owners on the reopening of America’s small businesses. Credit: Shealah Craighead

In the 2022 midterms, countless Republican candidates — hoping to distract voters from the abortion issue — have been focusing heavily on violent crime and blaming Democrats for the crime rates in major cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, New Orleans and Philadelphia. Crime was one of the subjects that Democratic nominee Joy Hofmeister and incumbent Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt debated on Wednesday, October 19, when Hofmeister reminded him how high the murder rates are in some red states.

Hofmeister told Stitt, “The fact is, the rates of violent crime are higher in Oklahoma, under your watch, than in New York and California. That’s a fact.”

Stitt disagreed, not surprisingly. But when podcast host Brian Tyler Cohen tweeted video of that part of the debate, he illustrated her point by also tweeting a study released in March 2022 by the centrist Democratic think tank Read the Full Article