er, you afre right about state statistics. Still, if you look at the cities, most high crime cities are Democratic, 9 out of 10 top ones, according to numbers I saw – and so do largest cities where there is most if the overall crime. Correlation is not causation, of course, it well might be that it is a general condition of large cities to both have high crime and liberal policies. Maybe worth looking at cities that had more and less liberal mayors and seeing what the effect was. First thing that comes to mind is NYC where crime declined under less liberal mayors.
