Re:After 20 Years as a Prosecutor in Illinois, I Quit
by iudqnolq on Friday May 12, 2023 @05:59PM
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Remember that cities have limited autonomy in the American system. A blue city in a red state has red laws.
Re:After 20 Years as a Prosecutor in Illinois, I Quit
by rufus_foreman on Friday May 12, 2023 @09:48PM
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We're talking about "prosecutorial policy": here. That's typically a local thing.
Re:After 20 Years as a Prosecutor in Illinois, I Quit
by chefandy on Saturday May 13, 2023 @12:14AM
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It's relevant at every level of the court system at which there are prosecutors.
Re:After 20 Years as a Prosecutor in Illinois, I Quit
by chefandy on Saturday May 13, 2023 @12:23AM
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It's flat-out ridiculous to pin it on something as broad partisan membership at one spot in a governmental body without considering any of the vastly more consequential facets of crime. Reverse the list and count the number of red and blue cities there.
I'm happy to look at pre and post policy implementation compared with similar entities, taking national and regional trends into account. Anything else is posturing.
Re:After 20 Years as a Prosecutor in Illinois, I Quit
by kevviiinn on Sunday May 14, 2023 @08:25AM
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When I sorted by homicide rate descending, all of the cities existed in red states. I'm not sure why they think that blue cities in red states somehow have different laws. Generally red States have worse social safety nets which is one thing that impacts crime overall
You can look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b..., sort by the homicide rate and almost all of the top 50 voted Democrat in the 2020 election. Not Tulsa or Oklahoma City, not Mobile. Eyeballing it, I don't see any other cities that voted Republican.
High homicide rates are a blue city thing, almost exclusively.