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   >REDLANDS, Calif. (KABC) -- A man who has spent nearly 20 years in prison   
   >for the murder of a Redlands teen that gained national attention will   
   >soon be released from prison, despite pleas from her family.   
      
   Republican voting areas in the USA are complete and utter violent   
   shitholes with record murders and violence increasing every year.    It's   
   the guns man.   
      
   It must be Republican's gift to the USA they hate so much.   
      
      
   The murder rates in Trump-voting states from 2020 have exceeded those in   
   Biden-voting states every year since 2000, according to a new analysis by   
   ThirdWay, a center-left think tank.   
      
   Why it matters: Republicans have built their party on being the   
   crime-fighting candidates, even as murder rates in red states have   
   outpaced blue states by an average of 23% over the past two decades.   
      
       Four reliably-red states consistently made the top of the list —   
       Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Missouri.   
      
   Driving the news: Third Way's report analyzed homicide data for all 50   
   states from 2000 through 2020, using CDC data.   
      
       They used the 2020 presidential election results to characterize "red   
       states" from the "blue states." The findings build on a previous Third   
       Way report that only analyzed murder rates from 2019-2020. This time,   
       they write, they wanted "to see if this one-year Red State murder   
       epidemic was an anomaly."   
      
   Zoom out: In Oct. 2022 — just before the 2022 midterm elections — a   
   record-high 56% of Americans said there was more crime where they live,   
   per Gallup.   
      
       That included 73% of Republicans and a whopping 51% of Independents.   
       Both parties rushed to spend tens of millions of dollars on crime ads   
       that month.   
      
   Between the lines: The political implications don't always match the   
   reality.   
      
       "Crime has historically been a very potent political issue. It’s also   
       very anecdote driven," said Jim Kessler, Third Way's executive vice   
       president for policy. Murder isn't the only crime committed or   
       discussed, but Third Way hopes to combat the "media and political   
       narrative that crime is a Democratic problem, occurring mostly in big   
       blue cities and fueled by lax policies," they write.   
      
   What to watch: Democratic messaging on the issue in the 2024 cycle and   
   whether there are renewed divisions between Democratic Party leaders and   
   members of Congress — particularly after party infighting blamed   
   progressives’ “defund the police” slogan for down-ballot losses in 2020.   
      
       President Biden reiterated his views just last week when he told a   
       group of bipartisan mayors gathering in D.C. that handling public   
       safety shouldn't involve defunding police departments.   
      
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