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A better idea would be to aprehend, torture and kill rightists.

The below report doesn't even touch on their multitude of sex offences.

Dead rightists mean a crime free world

The 21st Century Red State Murder Crisis


The red state murder rate was 33% higher than the blue state murder
rate in both 2021 and 2022.

2022 was the 23rd consecutive year that murder plagued Trump-voting
states at far higher levels than Biden-voting states.

8 out of the 10 states with the highest murder rates in 2022 voted for
Donald Trump in both 2016 and 2020.

From 2000 to 2022, the average red state murder rate was 24% higher
than the average blue state murder rate.

Red states like Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama are America’s
murder capitals and have had the highest three murder rates for 15 of
the last 23 years.

The excuse that sky high red state murder rates are because of their
blue cities is without merit. Even after removing the county with the
largest city from red states, and not from blue states, red state
murder rates were still 20% higher in 2021 and 16% higher in 2022.

House Republicans held three field hearings on violent crime last year in
New York City, Chicago, and Washington DC. These hearings should have been
held in the murder-plagued states of Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama.
In 2023, Speaker Johnson’s hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana had a murder
rate 8 times higher (41.1) than Minority Leader Jeffries’ hometown of
Brooklyn, New York (5.0), 6 times higher than Nancy Pelosi’s San
Francisco, California (6.6), and more than 7 times higher than the
national average (5.5). Our 2023 report in the Red State Murder Problem
series found that murder rates were significantly higher in red states
than blue states every year from 2000 to 2020. Over these 21 years, the
red state murder rate was 23% higher than the blue state murder rate. Our analysis of the latest CDC data found that 2021 and 2022 were no
exception.

This report analyzes homicide data from 2021 and 2022 for all 50 states
from the Center of Disease Control Wonder’s National Center for Health Statistics Mortality Data. Data is based on death certificates collected
by state registries and provided to the National Vital Statistics System.
Like in our previous report, we chose CDC data over FBI data because it’s
more up to date and does not rely on voluntary reporting from counties and states. All states are required to report mortality data to the CDC while they’re only encouraged to report crime data to the FBI. To allow for comparison across states, 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 state split.

We found that murder rates were down 5% nationwide in 2022, but a red
state murder gap still persists. Murder rates in red states were 33%
higher than in blue states in both 2021 and 2022. As in 2019 and 2020, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama hold the first, second, and third
highest murder rates in the country, respectively. The rest of the 10
states with the highest murder rates include the usual suspects—South
Carolina, Missouri, Tennessee, New Mexico, and Georgia. States with the
highest murder rates continue to be dominated by red states, not perennial
blue states like New York and California. Even when we removed the county
with the largest city in red states (and kept them in for blue states),
murder rates in red states were still 20% higher in 2021 and 16% higher in 2022. This is not a blue cities in red states problem.

Our analysis confirms that murder rates have been higher in red states
than blue states every year this century. Yet, the prevalent media and political narrative is that crime is rampant in Democrat-run states and
cities when the reality is that people are far safer in New York City than
in over a dozen red states. The murder crisis continues to be far higher
in red states in 2021 and 2022.

Murder rates in red states were 33% higher than in blue states in both
2021 and 2022. In 2021, the average red state murder rate was 9.0 per
100,000 residents while the average blue state murder rate was 6.8 per
100,000. In 2022, both these numbers dropped slightly to 8.5 per 100,000 residents and 6.4 per 100,000 residents, respectively. If blue states had
a murder rate as high as red states, they would have seen 4,255 additional murders in 2021 and 3,971 additional murders in 2022.

While murder rates thankfully dropped in both red and blue states in 2022,
red states still see a murder rate significantly higher than blue states
have ever seen. Over the past 23 years, the murder rate in blue states hit
its peak in 2021 at 6.8, significantly lower than red states’ peak at 9.0
the same year. Red states haven’t seen a murder rate under 6.8 since 2015,
when the murder rate was 6.4. Red states clearly have a murder problem
that defies the easy media narrative prevalent today.

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