Tornado Alley (PROG)

[janice shell]

Just adding to the situation we all find ourselves in politically

"We all"?? Include me out. People who don't live in cities have always exaggerated their dangers. In reality, our major cities are safer now than they were a few years ago.

Americans are hopelessly confused about big-city crime. Partisanship is partly to blame

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-09-07/americans-crime-rate-big-cities-safety

Americans think New York is more dangerous than New Orleans, even though the Crescent City’s homicide rate is 12 times higher this year. Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents rank Washington, D.C., as one of the country’s safer big cities, above cities like Miami, where the homicide rate is much lower. Republicans and Republican-leaning independents see Seattle as ominously dangerous, even though Houston has twice the homicide rate so far this year...

And there're more people in prison here than in anywhere else in the civilized world. Sure, there're some Dem initiatives I'm not enthusiastic about. But there are NO Republican initiatives I am enthusiastic about.