There’s one screamingly-obvious common denominator of high-crime cities: progressive, one-party rule. Of the 20 cities with the highest homicide rates in the country, 12 are located in red states, but only one – Shreveport, LA – has a Republican mayor.  And even there a Republican has run the city only 11 of the past 152 years.

Dallas is not one of the 20 most violent cities, and its Mayor Eric Johnson became a Republican in 2023.

His reason? “The future of America’s great urban centers depends on the willingness of the nation’s mayors to champion law and order and practice fiscal conservatism? He roasted the “inconsistent, poll-driven commitment of many Democrats” to those principles.

That seems so obvious one wonders whether progressives favor criminals over victims.