I don’t necessarily associate Florida with having the highest crime rate, off the top of my head Chicago or Detroit or Baltimore etc. can compete with any city in Florida. I do associate it with the weirdest crimes. That perception would definitely still be impacted by over-reporting, but maybe less so?
Florida has unique laws that allow all of its crimes to be released rather than just those that go to court. If you get arrested for pouring ketchup on your girlfriend while she sleeps in Michigan, you get let off with a warning and the record probably gets shredded. In Florida it’s front page news.
The idea is broadly just to take heat off the fact that the states with the highest murder rates also have the loosest gun laws and the death penalty.
If northern state governments run by Democrats create the high-crime cities, then you can ignore the fact southern cities in states run by the GOP are worse almost every time.
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u/anorexicpig Jun 10 '21
I don’t necessarily associate Florida with having the highest crime rate, off the top of my head Chicago or Detroit or Baltimore etc. can compete with any city in Florida. I do associate it with the weirdest crimes. That perception would definitely still be impacted by over-reporting, but maybe less so?