Can anyone give me an example of a time when hostility toward the police department and reduced toughness toward violent crime helped a city? We can have some police and justice reform without the outright softness towards criminals and hostility to police that Johnson and many folks on here seem to want. How does Johnson represent anything other than a doubling down on the failed crime policies of Lightfoot?
I'm going to do a whataboutism here but it should be pointed out that 3 of the top 5 states with the highest crime rates according to FBI statistics between 2011 and 2020 (which I pulled from
this Wikipedia article) are Alaska, Tennessee, and Arkansas. If you expand it to the top 10, you can tack on Arizona, Louisiana, Missouri, South Carolina, and South Dakota. Aside from Arizona, who had a Republican Governor for the entirety of that time period, all of those states are deep red. So I'll answer your question with a question--when's the last time "tough on crime" politicians ever did anything to bring down crime rates?
By the way, 8 of the bottom 10 states are blue states.
