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How Democrats Address the Crime Issue in the 2022 Election [1]

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Date: 2022-10-22

I just viewed the State of Oklahoma 2022 Gubernatorial Debate between the Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt and Democratic challenger State Superintendent of Public Instruction Joy Hofmeister. During the debate Joy Hofmeister turned the GOP argument that electing Democrats results in higher violent crime rates into a weapon using the fact that 8 out of the top 10 states with the highest violent crime rates are Republican states and that Oklahoma has a higher violent crime rate than New York and California.

I thought I would look into this information further using information presented on the MSNBC “The Sunday Show with JONATHAN CAPEHART” (3/27/2022) and published on the Wikipedia “List of U.S. states and territories by violent crime rate” page– url:“https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_violent_crime_rate”. The following information was extracted from these sources just to reinforce Joy Hofmeister’s point.

The following information was presented on the MSNBC “The Sunday Show with JONATHAN CAPEHART” (3/27/2022):

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Top 10 States with Highest Murder Rates Per Capita State % Per Capita Mississippi 20.50% Louisiana 15.79% Kentucky 14.32% Alabama 14.20% Missouri 14.00% South Carolina 10.72% Georgia 10.50% Arkansas 10.29% New Mexico 10.70% Tennessee 9.90%

Source: information presented on the MSNBC “The Sunday Show with

JONATHAN CAPEHART” (3/27/2022)

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The information presented on the Wikipedia “List of U.S. states and territories by violent crime rate” page provides the following for “State Violent Crime Rate Totals over the 10 year period from 2010 through 2019” for the 10 states with the highest violent crime rates:

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State or Territory 10 Year (2010 Thru 2019) Violent Crime Rate Totals Alaska 6,828.20 New Mexico 6,333.20 Tennessee 5,636.50 Nevada 5,278.40 Louisiana 4,926.00 Arkansas 4,851.40 South Carolina 4,612.10 Missouri 4,409.70 Delaware 4,261.10 Alabama 4,304.70

Source Reference Information Source: Wikipedia “List of U.S. states and territories by violent crime rate” page – url: “https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_violent_crime_rate” List of U.S. states and territories by violent crime rate as of 2020. It is typically expressed in units of incidents per 100,000 individuals per year; Thus, a violent crime rate of 300 (per 100,000 inhabitants) in a population of 100,000 would mean 300 incidents of violent crime per year in that entire population, Or 0.3% out of the total. The data has been taken from the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports.[1][2] [1] FBI: UCR – Crime in the U.S. reference url: “https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s” [2] FBI: CDE (Crime Data Explorer) reference url: “https://crime-data-explorer.app.cloud.gov/pages/explorer/crime/crime-trend”

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The Wikipedia“List of U.S. states and territories by violent crime rate” page provides the following information for “2019 Violent Crime Rate”for the for the 10 states with the highest violent crime rates prior to the COVID-19 Pandemic:

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State or Territory 2019 Violent Crime Rate Alaska 837.80 New Mexico 778.30 Tennessee 672.70 Arkansas 671.90 Arizona 654.80 Louisiana 639.40 Missouri 542.70 South Carolina 530.70 South Dakota 501.40 Michigan 478.00

Source Reference Information Source: Wikipedia “List of U.S. states and territories by violent crime rate” page – url: “https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_violent_crime_rate” List of U.S. states and territories by violent crime rate as of 2020. It is typically expressed in units of incidents per 100,000 individuals per year; Thus, a violent crime rate of 300 (per 100,000 inhabitants) in a population of 100,000 would mean 300 incidents of violent crime per year in that entire population, Or 0.3% out of the total. The data has been taken from the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports.[1][2] [1] FBI: UCR – Crime in the U.S. reference url: “https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s” [2] FBI: CDE (Crime Data Explorer) reference url: “https://crime-data-explorer.app.cloud.gov/pages/explorer/crime/crime-trend”

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The Wikipedia “List of U.S. states and territories by violent crime rate” page provides the following for “2020 Violent Crimes”for the 10 states with the highest violent crime rates during the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic:

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State or Territory 2020 Violent Crime Rate Alaska 837.80 New Mexico 778.30 Tennessee 672.70 Arkansas 671.90 Arizona 654.80 Louisiana 639.40 Missouri 542.70 South Carolina 530.70 South Dakota 501.40 Michigan 478.00

Source Reference Information Source: Wikipedia “List of U.S. states and territories by violent crime rate” page – url: “https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_violent_crime_rate” List of U.S. states and territories by violent crime rate as of 2020. It is typically expressed in units of incidents per 100,000 individuals per year; Thus, a violent crime rate of 300 (per 100,000 inhabitants) in a population of 100,000 would mean 300 incidents of violent crime per year in that entire population, Or 0.3% out of the total. The data has been taken from the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports.[1][2] [1] FBI: UCR – Crime in the U.S. reference url: “https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s” [2] FBI: CDE (Crime Data Explorer) reference url: “https://crime-data-explorer.app.cloud.gov/pages/explorer/crime/crime-trend”

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I guess the facts are that 8 out of the 10 states with the highest violent crime rates are states with Republican majorities.

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