New Democratic strategy before the midterm elections: Deny crime exists

 As crime abounds in major cities and voters continue to cite violence as a top concern, liberals may have a new strategy: deny it exists

• Democratic St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones tried this recently after the personal finance website WalletHub declared her city the most dangerous in the United States.
• WalletHub did not "take random statistics from random newspapers." Instead, it relied on data from the FBI, the Census Bureau, and Pew Charitable Trust, among other sources.

There are 186,000 white residents of Baltimore, and in 2021, there were at least eight white murder victims in the city, according to a database from the Baltimore Sun.

• That works out to a murder rate of 1 white murder victim per 23,000 residents
• There's no similar tracker for Boise, but in 2021, there were only two murders recorded. Neither of the victims was a white resident.

Another favorite tactic is to call opponents racist for bringing up crime

• "I think it's really just coded language, and it's not uncommon," University of Florida political scientist Sharon Wright told U.S. News & World Report when asked about Republicans running on an anti-crime platform.
• Anti-crime messaging is really about race and tapping into suburbanites' fears about black criminals coming into their communities, even if that fear is unfounded."

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