Hillary Clinton was up to her old shenanigans again last week, peddling misinformation about crime statistics, blaming Republicans, not Democrats, for high crime in the country. It’s not true, of course, and it’s the latest attempt by Democrats to try to cover for their failed policies that have significantly contributed to the surge in violent crime. Yet, despite such claims, the data shows that the areas with the highest levels of violent crime in the country are cities that have Democratic mayors and leadership.
During an interview with CNN, two-time failed presidential candidate Clinton made the bogus claim that “states with the highest crime levels are states run by Republicans. That’s just a fact.” In reality, it’s anything but a fact.
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For example, take the city where I am from, Philadelphia. The city’s been in the news over the last few years for its record number of homicides, carjackings, and other violent crimes. A sitting congresswoman, Mary Gay Scanlon, was carjacked at gunpoint on a Wednesday afternoon in Philadelphia. There’s a reason why Scanlon was carjacked in Philadelphia and not in one of the suburban or rural areas she represents. It’s because the surge in violent crime is happening in Democratic-controlled cities.
Consider the data of the cities with the highest murder rates.
In February 2022, CBS News published a report about cities with the highest homicide rate, “Murder map: Deadliest U.S. cities.” Of the top 10 deadliest cities in the country, all of them are cities with Democratic mayors. Moreover, of the 65 cities on this list with the highest murder rates, the overwhelming majority had Democratic mayors. And, to quote Clinton, “that’s just a fact.”
On Nov. 4, the Heritage Foundation released a study showing that “high-crime counties are governed largely by Democrats.” It revealed that of the 30 cities with the highest murder rates in the country, 27 have Democratic mayors. Furthermore, of those 27 cities, nearly half (14) have radical left-wing prosecutors funded or inspired by affluent billionaire and leftist political activist George Soros and the Open Society Foundation.
“The high murder rate is almost exclusively cabined in cities run by Democrats and with Democrat district attorneys, many of whom are Soros bought-and-paid-for rogue prosecutors or inspired by Soros, groups like the egregiously misnamed Fair and Just Prosecution and other battering rams of the movement,” the authors of the study stated.
Clinton, like all Democrats, knows this information. However, they choose to be deceitful about it because it doesn’t help their political agenda. Admitting that people are being murdered in record numbers because of awful left-wing, liberal, Democratic criminal justice policies isn’t good for their political fortunes and won’t help them win elections.
As bodies pile up on the street, most of which are the black and brown people that Democrats claim they desperately want to protect, the Left continues to ignore the reality of the problems they caused.
The data are all there and available to everyone. It’s up to the people now to decide which party they prefer. If people want to stop this, they will change how they vote. If they like murder, violent crime, not feeling safe in their communities, and being lied to, they will continue voting for Democrats.
