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Gillean Wilsak's avatar

Thank you for your rebuttal to David A. about Trump. This is the reason journalism is so important; I felt the same way as you but did not have the statistics to back up my feelings. We need journalists who will go out and find the facts to bolster the opinions.

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TedB's avatar

I completely get calling out exaggerated right-wing talking points, it needs to be done, but the left continues to bury themselves on crime.

In the midst of a major widespread violent crime wave, pointing back 30-40 years ago doesn't cut it. It's apples to oranges. Our trauma centers were less advanced, there was a failed war on drugs, and police stats were fudged even more than now. There were less mass shootings, and kids from the city weren't traveling all over to commit crimes.

The "red state murder problem" doesn't work either. Crime is localized, down to the neighborhood. Mississippi is only a high crime state because democratic Jackson is the U.S. top murder capital. 80-90% of the top 100 homicide per capita cities are run by democrats. Jacksonville FL, specifically pointed out by Third Way as a red city problem, isn't even in the top 100.

https://theweek.com/us/1012196/white-house-officials-and-left-wing-media-critics-convinced-themselves-that-the-media

https://www.city-journal.org/third-ways-misdirection-on-violent-crime

Own the mistakes and move forward, before we end up with more Trumpism.

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