Simple fact: Crime goes down when people have jobs. It's not the amount of law enforcement it's economic conditions. Want to lower crime? Then get rid if trump and his disastrous economic policies that will tank the economy by years end. Watch crime skyrocket nationwide next year.
And therein is the lie of Social Darwinism. Reagan closed down factories everywhere, gutted public education, then flooded desperate inner cities w/ Central American cocaine to pay off Iran for using the American hostages as props at his Inauguration. And every Democratic President followed suit.
Christ was a Commie. We've been damned for 45 years for being insufficiently Socialist. That is why today looks like Hell. No one remembers that there WAS a post WWII middle class or the policies that created it.
it's a red herring here. These cities had LOWER crime than in previous years. Trump's actively cut the programs that helped them do so. This is a paper thin pretext for acting like the petty tyrant that he is. We got rid of stronger than him 250 years ago for less.