Tornado Alley (PROG)

[blackhawks]

Association is not causation, otherwise you Red State bumpkins will have to assign GOP governors responsibility for abysmal State educational performance, tragically sad healthcare and mortality stats and lagging GDP's that have you dependent upon the 'kindness of strangers'....redistribution of tax revenues largely generated by Blue States.

Murder RATES are the more accurate indicator of the prevalence of violence in a community.

Tell me there are not some GOP mayors sprinkled among these cities, not that it's their fault mind you.

https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/blog/highest-murder-rate-cities

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/01/03/5-facts-about-crime-in-the-u-s/

There are large geographic variations in crime rates. The BJS data don’t allow for specific geographic comparisons, but the FBI data show big differences from state to state and city to city. In 2017, there were more than 600 violent crimes per 100,000 residents in Alaska, New Mexico and Tennessee. By contrast, Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont had rates below 200 violent crimes per 100,000 residents.

And while Chicago has drawn widespread attention for its soaring murder total in recent years, its murder rate in 2017 – 24.1 murders and non-negligent manslaughters per 100,000 residents – was less than half of the rates in St. Louis (66.1 per 100,000) and Baltimore (55.8 per 100,000). The FBI notes that various factors might influence a particular area’s crime rate, including its population density and economic conditions.