uses state rating on their list of state with highest crime rate and says they're all run by GOP.
If you look at the state level, yes... GOP run states have the highest Crime rate. However, where are these crimes happening? Well, you have to dig deeper... most of these crimes are happening in major cities in these states. So, if you look at the cities with the highest crime rate... they are run by Democratic Mayor. And these high violent crimes cities are in GOP run states.
Democrats' list of top 10 highest crime rate state:
Mississipi, Louisiana, Kentucky, Arkansas, Alabama, Missouri, South Carolina, New Mexico, Georgia and Tennessee. They claimed 9 states with highest crimes are run by GOP.
If you look into the above states, the city with the highest violent crime rate of each state are all run by Democrats: Laurel - MS, Democrat; New Orleans - LA, Democrat; Little Rock - AR, Democrat, Birmingham - AL, Democrat, St. Louis - MO, Democrat, Orangeburg - SC, Democrat, Atlanta - GA, Democrat, Memphis - TN, Democrat.
As a matter of fact, the top ten major metropolitan cities with the highest crime rates are run by Dem mayor:
Memphis, Oakland, Detroit, Little Rock, Baltimore, Cleveland, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Pueblo and St. Louis... only one city in the top 10 is run by a GOP.
It's gets worst... The top 20 cities in America with the highest rate of homicide are mostly run by Democrats - only two cities are run by GOP. New Orleans, Memphis, St. Louis, Baltimore, DC, Birmingham, Philadelphia, Kansas City, Richmond, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Louisville, Cleveland, Detroit, Norfolk, Atlanta, Chicago, Jacksonville, Nashville & Dallas - in that order according to USAFact.org
David Pakman, a paid Democrat influencer in YT, even go as far as claiming that you can't focused on cities but on an area... and says that cities are more dense, more populated, therefore more crimes. So, you can't blame cities for the high crime rates.