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Oct 29, 2022, 8:17:57 PM10/29/22
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The rate of murders in the US has gone up at an alarming rate.
Republican-run cities and states as much or more than the Democratic one

In 2020, per capita murder rates were 40% higher in states won by Donald
Trump than those won by Joe Biden.

8 of the 10 states with the highest murder rates in 2020 voted for the
Republican presidential nominee in every election this century.
Every news outlet from FOX to CNN to The New York Times to local
newspapers has a story with attention-grabbing headlines like “US cities
hit all-time murder records.” Fox News and Republicans have jumped on
this and framed it as a “Democrat” problem. They blame it on Democrat’s
“soft-on-crime” approach and have even referred to a New York District
Attorney’s approach as “hug-a-thug.” Many news stories outside of Fox
have also purported that police reform is responsible for this rise in
murder and have pointed to cities like New York and Los Angeles.

There is a measure of truth to these stories. The US saw an alarming 30%
increase in murder in 2020. While 2021 data is not yet complete, murder
was on the rise again this past year. Some “blue” cities, like Chicago,
Baltimore, and Philadelphia, have seen real and persistent increases in
homicides. These cities—along with others like Los Angeles, New York,
and Minneapolis—are also in places with wall-to-wall media coverage and
national media interest.

But there is a large piece of the homicide story that is missing and
calls into question the veracity of the right-wing obsession over
homicides in Democratic cities: murder rates are far higher in
Trump-voting red states than Biden-voting blue states. And sometimes,
murder rates are highest in cities with Republican mayors.

For example, Jacksonville, a city with a Republican mayor, had 128 more
murders in 2020 than San Francisco, a city with a Democrat mayor,
despite their comparable populations. In fact, the homicide rate in
Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco was half that of House Republican
Leader Kevin McCarthy’s Bakersfield, a city with a Republican mayor that
overwhelmingly voted for Trump. Yet there is barely a whisper, let alone
an outcry, over the stunning levels of murders in these and other places.

We collected 2019 and 2020 murder data from all 50 states.
(Comprehensive 2021 data is not yet available.) We pulled the data from
yearly crime reports released by state governments, specifically the
Departments of Justice and Safety. For states that didn’t issue state
crime reports, we pulled data from reputable local news sources. To
allow for comparison, we calculated the state’s per capita murder rate,
the number of murders per 100,000 residents, and categorized states by
their presidential vote in the 2020 election, resulting in an even 25-25
split.

We found that murder rates are, on average, 40% higher in the 25 states
Donald Trump won in the last presidential election compared to those
that voted for Joe Biden. In addition, murder rates in many of these red
states dwarf those in blue states like New York, California, and
Massachusetts. And finally, many of the states with the worst murder
rates—like Mississippi, Kentucky, Alabama, South Carolina, and
Arkansas—are ones that few would describe as urban. Only 2 of America’s
top 100 cities in population are located in these high murder rate
states. And not a single one of the top 10 murder states registers in
the top 15 for population density.

Whether one does or does not blame Republican leaders for high murder
rates, it seems that Republican officeholders do a better job of blaming
Democrats for lethal crime than actually reducing lethal crime.

Trump-Voting States Account for 8 out of the 10 Highest Murder Rates in
2020.
If you’re tuned in to the media, you’d think murder is rocketing skyward
in New York, California, Illinois. But those states don’t even crack the
top ten.

In fact, the top per capita murder rate states in 2020 were mostly those
far from massive urban centers and Democratic mayors and governors.
Eight of the top ten worst murder rate states voted for Trump in 2020.
None of those eight has supported a Democrat for president since 1996.

The chart below shows the top 10 murder rate states in 2020. Mississippi
had the highest homicide rate at 20.50 murders per 100,000 residents,
followed by Louisiana at 15.79, Kentucky at 14.32, Alabama at 14.2, and
Missouri at 14. The national average was 6.5 per 100,000 residents, but
the top five states had rates more than twice that high.

These red states are not generating “murder is out of control” national
headlines. They seem to generate no headlines at all. The rest of the
top ten were filled out by South Carolina, New Mexico, Georgia,
Arkansas, and Tennessee—all states rarely talked about in breathless
media reports about rampant crime in Democratic strongholds. Notably,
New Mexico and Georgia were the only Biden-voting states in the top ten,
and they ranked seventh and eighth, respectively.


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