White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt shredded Democrat mayors in both blue and red states across the country for leading the most dangerous cities in America, in response to the narrative that red states have a bigger crime issue than blue states.
While some red states may have higher crime rates, the epicenter of the crime is in the Democratic cities. For example, Jackson, Mississippi, the deadliest city in America with a murder rate that is over 15 times higher than the national average, has a Democrat Mayor cashless bail policies.
According to the Hill, the ten cities with the highest murder rates are Jackson, MS; Birmingham, AL; St. Louis, MO; Memphis, TN; Baltimore, MD; Detroit, MI; Cleveland, OH; Louisville, KY; Indianapolis, IN; and Oakland, CA. ALL of the mayors in these cities are Democrats!
13 of the 20 cities with the highest murder rates are in Republican states, which is often used to criticize President Trump’s claim that Democrat policies are to blame for high crime and murder rates. However, only one city, Shreveport, Louisiana, has a Republican mayor.
Leavitt was asked by the Daily Caller’s Reagan Reese about the Democrats’ focus on Republican states while ignoring high crime Democratic cities and whether President Trump would consider working with the governors of red states to end crime in their blue cities.
“Of course, there is crime in all states, but the crime in these cities is all in cities that are run by Democrats,” she responded, pointing to the failed policies in Jackson and Birmingham, Alabama, where leftist mayors have decided to harbor illegal aliens and allow criminals to walk free. “These are blue cities, and they have all supported these disastrous policies, which allow repeated career criminals back onto the streets to further commit acts of violence.”
Leavitt also highlighted the success of Trump’s crackdown in Washington, DC, after implementing tough-on-crime policies as evidence that the President “wants to work with anyone across this country who wants to end these horrible policies and to bring law and order to our streets.”
“The President would love to do this in every Democrat-run city across the country, and he hopes that more Democrats will call the White House to allow us to help them,” Leavitt said.
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Reese: Democrats have tried to argue that red states have higher crime rates while overlooking the problems of high crime in blue cities. I’m wondering if the President would consider working with red state governors to fix high crime in blue cities, like in Memphis, Tennessee.
Leavitt: So, first of all, I want to get to the premise of your question, Reagan, which is being pushed by Democrats, that there is crime in red states. Of course, there is crime in all states, but the crime in these cities is all in cities that are run by Democrats. If you look at the list of the top 20 high-crime cities in the United States, every single one, with the exception of one in Louisiana, is run by a Democrat. And these Democrats have supported the same policies that I spoke about at the beginning of this briefing like cashless bail. If you look at a red state, Mississippi, but a Democrat run city in that state, Jackson, in 2019 Jackson, Mississippi eliminated cash bail for virtually all misdemeanor cases. And while Jackson is not formally a sanctuary city– the state of Mississippi formally banned sanctuary cities, and this city has acted as a de facto sanctuary city for criminals and illegal aliens since 2017. Same thing, Birmingham, Alabama— a Democrat run city in a red state— in 2017, the Birmingham City Council unanimously passed a resolution, quote “committing to establish sanctuary policies.”
So, if you actually look at the facts from these Democrat run cities, these are cities that are run by Democrats and by members of the Democrat Party. These are blue cities, and they have all supported these disastrous policies, which allow repeated career criminals back onto the streets to further commit acts of violence. And so, to answer your question, yes, the President wants to work with anyone across this country who wants to end these horrible policies and to bring law and order to our streets. And I think that is proven by his tremendous cooperation with the mayor of Washington, DC in our nation’s capital, and just look at the results of that. And I do have some updates for you on the DC crime crackdown if anyone is interested. There have been a total of 2,177 arrests made since the start of the operation on August 7. Just last night, there were 57 arrests made in Washington, DC. Of the 57 arrests, there were 14 illegal aliens who were arrested, many of whom had prior criminal histories, and other arrests just last night in our nation’s capital. So, you all can be very grateful for this.
Our great men and women of law enforcement, both federal and local, working together as they should, made an arrest on a warrant for assault with the intent to kill. The subject shot two adult males after an altercation. They made an arrest on a warrant for an armed carjacking. The subject assaulted an adult male in the face with a firearm and then took his keys. We also made an arrest on a warrant for simple assault and the destruction of property, and subsequently charged with second degree theft. Last night in DC, there was an arrest for possession of a controlled substance with second degree theft. There was an arrest for possession of a controlled substance with the intent to distribute. That subject, the person, is also a subject of interest in a homicide and a carjacking. Last night in DC, we also arrested a felon in possession of a firearm, who was carrying that firearm without a license. So, these are the career criminals. These are the bad guys that we are picking up in Washington, DC every day. The President would love to do this in every Democrat-run city across the country, and he hopes that more Democrats will call the White House to allow us to help them.
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