Well…just read an interesting article about crime in California that the repubs keep bleating about…with their main point being that the big cities are hellholes of crime and especially the ones run by dems…so this researcher did the math and found out something that doesn’t surprise me and shows where the repubs are getting the idea that things are so bad…and they are in counties in California that are run by repubs…in those counties, the murder rate is up 65% and other major crimes mirror those numbers…but in the blue counties and big cities run by dems, the murder rate is down 37% over the past couple of years…and again, other major crimes have seen the same drops…part of the murder rate in red counties is from the fact that sheriffs there refuse to enforce the sensible gun laws that have been passed over the past few years…things like red flag laws and universal background checks that have been shown to work…but there is more than that going on…the overall lack of respect for the laws of the state in repubs that has been pounded into them by the idiot trump over the past 7 years has led to more and more crime since they feel the law doesn’t apply to them…the repubs are turning the areas they control into hell holes and they like it that way since they just love to whine about things…while the dems continue to make their states better like here in Michigan…geez…