Mass crime is caused by mass unemployment and poverty . In our system, a free enterprise system, government does not control the economy. City governments do not control the city economy; city governments do not cause unemployment and poverty . Therefore , city governments do not cause mass crime . These facts - and they are the truth - very thoroughly and certainly refute the rightwing , racist claims that Democrats have “done in “ the cities .

Mass crime is caused by mass unemployment and poverty . In our system, a free enterprise system, government does not control the economy. City governments do not control the city economy; city governments do not cause unemployment and poverty . Therefore , city governments do not cause mass crime . These facts - and they are the truth - very thoroughly and certainly refute the rightwing , racist claims that Democrats have “done in “ the cities .

It is an economic law of free enterprise that there is always mass unemployment and poverty, and therefore mass crime , and most of it in cities because by definition the populations are more concentrated. Anyway it has harmed cities . It’s always been like this . See Dickens on London , for example.

And of course , 95% plus of the _people_ in cities are not criminals . So, it’s gross and ignorant slander to call cities “criminal.” Cities are the People, the CITIZENS, most struggling to make ends meet , but celebrating life somehow , nonetheless, despite more crime. Like mass crime , mass abandoned buildings are deemed the city government’s responsibility. But the buildings were abandoned by the private sector, not the city government. They are dumped on the city with its limited funds . The mass of abandoned buildings is not the city government’s fault at all. High crime rates are not the city government’s fault AT ALL.

Greater violent crime is caused by the ridiculous current Republican, not Democrat ,Supreme Court interpretation of the 2nd Amendment; not by Democratic city governments . Mass violent crime is a sacrifice on the altar of gun manufacturers' profits.