California has been reducing violent encounters between residents and officers since before the racial justice protests sparked by George Floyd’s murder. It’s a trend with little fanfare.
California has been reducing violent encounters between residents and officers since before the racial justice protests sparked by George Floyd’s murder. It’s a trend with little fanfare.
It’s not red vs blue, it’s rich vs poor.
Yea but it’s also blue policy choices that are helping here.
Simple. Truthful. This needs to be repeated everywhere.
California, famously a poor state.
The vast majority of it is indeed poor. Sure there are pockets of billionaires but most people in CA are struggling. Even more so now than ever before. Especially when you factor the cost of truth and other living expenses.
People in general tend to have more personal wealth in blue states due to safety nets and other social programs red states lack.
It’s rich vs poor because it’s red vs blue
I heard people complaining about taxes all the time when I lived in us republican states. In US democrat states, only the far right was complaining. Everyone else was enjoying the public services that the taxes paid for, and most of us had been to places that claimed to have lower tax burdens (but did not) and provided far less services. Texas for example.
I think a heat map might disagree with that on a red vs blue state level, but if that map was specifically by income, I agree it would be higher in poor areas.
How to word this… poor people are killed more than rich people, but poor people are killed more often in red states than in blue. Something like that.