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In fairness, you do have to drive a lot further to find someone to shoot in WY than you do in CO. That could explain some of the difference.
Uh, no. In every town own you have neighbors all around you. They are simply much more civilized in Wyoming and demographics like it in plenty of places across the country.
The low rate of violent crime in Wyoming is due to demographics. The pop of Wyoming is near 90% white and about 70% of eligible voters voted Republican in the last election. That 70% was the highest in the nation.
Which means that democrats aren't the problem, demographics are.
And if Black people are considered the problem, then people can quite going on about D vs R. Ironically, Colorado doesn't have a large Black population (4%). It does have a decent-size Hispanic population (20%).
Which means that democrats aren't the problem, demographics are.
Point taken although there have been Dem mayors that contributed to riots and looting by holding their police forces back and still do. And some mayors not only don’t support their police forces but also blame them for the violence from these rioters, looters, shooters, and those burning down buildings. And some of these Dem mayors were/are white.
Amazing how the gang members prefer ultra ultra Democratic Denver and avoid Republican Trump-loving Cheyenne.
Ultra-liberal, Democratic and Biden loving city of Albuquerque has had 112 homicides so far this year and has similar population to Wyoming which had a total of 9 homicides.
Biden-worshipping Pueblo, Colorado just over 100,000 people just reported their 29th homicide of the year while Wyoming has a homicide rate of 1 per 100,000 people.
Wow, Colorado has had 31 times more homicides than Wyoming.
New Mexico has had 25 times more homicides yet New Mexico is not even 4 times the population.
OK, I am not going to read the whole thread, just reply to the OP. I am a conservative, but come on now. Wyoming has the lowest population density in the whole country besides maybe Alaska. This thread is for n00bs only.
I opened a thread a month ago about Black homicide rates. I compared murder rates from state to state. Missouri vs Georgia. Both are Republican states with large Democratic cities. Missouri has St. Louis and Kansas City. Georgia has Atlanta. Georgia is 32% Black and Missouri is 11% Black. Missouri has a much higher murder rate than Georgia. In fact, if you compared Atlanta, St. Louis, and Kansas City, Atlanta has the lowest murder rate out of the 3. Atlanta is around 52% Black, St. Louis is around 47% Black, and Kansas City is around 30% Black. How does Atlanta end up with a lower murder rate than St. Louis or Kansas City?
Georgia has a markedly lower Black homicide rate than Missouri. Georgia has a lower murder rate than Missouri over all. This while having a much higher Black population than Missouri. It leaves this question. What's going on in Missouri that isn't going on in Georgia?
And if Black people are considered the problem, then people can quite going on about D vs R. Ironically, Colorado doesn't have a large Black population (4%). It does have a decent-size Hispanic population (20%).
Blacks aren’t the only people committing high rates of violent crime. Non-white Hispanics do also. Dem mayors of all races contribute to the crime rates in their cities in the way they deal with their police forces. A few examples are the mayors of Portland and Chicago.
Point taken although there have been Dem mayors that contributed to riots and looting by holding their police forces back and still do. And some mayors not only don’t support their police forces but also blame them for the violence from these rioters, looters, shooters, and those burning down buildings. And some of these Dem mayors were/are white.
High murder rates in these cities have been going on long, long before any concept of defunding the police or anything else like that came around.
High murder rates in these cities have been going on long, long before any concept of defunding the police or anything else like that came around.
And those rates increased tremendously this past year due to some of these mayor’s policies. Denver for example has twice as many homicides this year than last year. Higher rates in many cities across the country.
Dude what planet do you live on? I haven't met a single left-leaning individual who won't readily admit that crime is a problem in bigger cities. That many (but not all) of them happen to be more Democratically leaning is irrelevant. Studies have shown time and time again that poverty and lack of education are often the biggest driving factors behind violent crime and poverty knows no political affiliation.
As someone else mentioned in another heavily biased thread of yours, most of the states that suffer the worst violent crime are Republican-run states. Most of those same states also have the highest levels of poverty and among the lowest rates of educated citizens and the worst quality of public schools. These are things that Democrats repeatedly attempt to correct at both the state and national level, only to be rebuked time and time again by Republican voters. I may not agree necessarily with methods employed by Democratic leaders, but at least I recognize that they're trying to correct a national problem.
If you honestly and truly believe that the Democratic political platform is without any sort of merit or saving grace, then give us an alternative and explain why we should vote for that platform instead of just bashing blue cities all day. All it's doing is turning people away from your opinions.
But it's the heavily Democratic cities in these states that have the ultra-high homicide rates.
How have the Democrats tried to correct anything?
Arizona has a Republican governor and has a high homicide rate but the high homicides are in Democratic Phoenix and Democratic Tucson.
The high homicide rates in Arizona are not in Republican places like Gilbert, Chandler, Scottsdale, Lake Havasu and Kingman.
Missouri's high homicide rates are because of heavily Democratic St. Louis and Democratic Kansas City.
It is the city police department and county sheriff that are responsible for the safety of a city and the state can only provide supplemental patrols.
The violence is so extreme in Democratic Phoenix that Republican Doug Ducey's State Troopers seem to be the main responding agency during many of the calls in the city of Phoenix.
I mean that's very vague to say the Democrats tried to correct anything?
That is like a person on that show that documents 600 pound people and the people say they are trying to lose weight?
In most of those cities, no change in policy occurred at all, but murder rates went up anyway.
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