State law enforcement doesn't do much in cities unless asked, they're chasing someone for what they did on a state highway or it's an agency similar to Wisconsin's Department of Criminal Investigation- they aren't involved in day to day law enforcement. They aren't involved in much of the planning and implementation of the local PDs- you're making it sound like the Republican-led state governments are hands-on with the PDs in the cities when they really aren't.
Second, you posted about Republican-led
states, now you're posting about cities. Let's keep them separate.
Do you really expect Salon to be unbiased?
The murder rates show one thing, I'm referring to the gross numbers- the highest rate increases have been in rural, Republican-led states where the actually numbers are usually low, partly because of lower population density. In rural states, people often do whatever they want because they know the police aren't generally close, although the stench from making Meth and other drugs is hard to ignore. Murders were at a low point in 2019, now it's an epidemic and the murder
rate is OK, but it hardly shows the problem.
I'll use WI as an example- the link shows 175 murders in 2019 for the state, but MKE accounted for almost 100 of them. Last year, MKE had almost 200 and the city is on track to beat that in 2022 (the link shows 191 so far in 2022) The rest of the state has seen increasing crime rates, but the actual numbers are very small. The link shows this, but not all of the info is accurate- aside from MKE, ALL of the murder totals are in single digits or low double digits.
The cities with the most murder per capita in Wisconsin are Milwaukee and Deforest for 2024.
www.roadsnacks.net
I would recommend using data from official agencies, rather than grabbing something that you want to use to reinforce your point.
