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Illinois used to have the death penalty, during the days when Chicago has as much as 974 murders in a year, and keep recording 800-900 murders per year.
St. Louis, Missouri is in a state that has the death penalty. Doesn't stop it from having the highest murder rate in the nation.
New Orleans is in Louisiana. It has frequently made the status of murder capital of America. It's located in a death penalty state.
Alot of cities with murder rates higher than Chicago are in death penalty states.
"St. Louis, Missouri is in a state that has the death penalty. Doesn't stop it from having the highest murder rate in the nation."
"Six Missouri inmates were executed in 2015"
"Few Missouri inmates are likely to face execution in 2016"
"Missouri maintained its place among the country’s most active death penalty states in 2015.It carried out six death sentences"
But the poor areas overwhelmingly vote for the Democrats, I think it's >90%.
Many "poor" areas of the country don't vote overwhelmingly for Democrats. There are poor rural communities that vote Republican.
And before anyone starts talking about black people and their disproportionate crime there are no gang members on street corners shooting each other in Iowa, Kentucky, West Virginia, Arkansas and Wisconsin but there are plenty of meth labs, cocaine dens, and (gasps, wait for it) drug dealers.
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Many "poor" areas of the country don't vote overwhelmingly for Democrats. There are poor rural communities that vote Republican.
And before anyone starts talking about black people and their disproportionate crime there are no gang members on street corners shooting each other in Iowa, Kentucky, West Virginia, Arkansas and Wisconsin but there are plenty of meth labs, cocaine dens, and (gasps, wait for it) drug dealers.
Who you vote for is not who matters. it is who wins.
Lots of poor black areas in the South where Republicans are in control, but no one mentions that because they are to busy only talking about Chicago
I would appreciate if people would stop using Chicago as the litmus test for gun laws and murders. I have a better example.
Baltimore. Baltimore recorded a murder rate of 55.3 murders per 100,000, the highest it has ever recorded, as of last year. Consider this: Baltimore's murder rate has ranged between 33.9 murders per 100,000 in 2014 to 45.2 murders per 100,000 in 2007. Baltimore also had murder rates in the 40s per 100,000 for 5 straight years during the 2000s. Chicago recorded of murder rate of 18.5 murders per 100,000. Baltimore has stricter gun laws than Chicago, but has a much, much higher murder rate and suffers from high levels of corruption and racial tensions.
For many years Balt. and Wash, DC traded being "the murder capitol of the country".
For many years Balt. and Wash, DC traded being "the murder capitol of the country".
And now DC, despite having a higher percentage of Blacks than Chicago, has a lower murder rate than Chicago.
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