statistics don't lie much but those with agendas do, and here are statistics you may wish to be aware of centered on murder and those who do it;

Let’s imagine that someone compiles a list of the most dangerous cities in the world based on murder rates arranged in descending order; the list contains 50 cities, all of them with populations of over 200,000. About a quarter of the way down the list, after the appearance of a number of cities all located in Mexico, Venezuela, and Brazil, a US city pops up, giving it the dubious distinction of being the most dangerous city in the US with a population of over 200,000. Now imagine we hear that the mayor of that city is going to defund the city’s police department, and the move is supported by the US Representative in whose district the city lies.

Well, we don’t have to imagine it; it’s already happened. According to this article, the city is St. Louis; the mayor is Tishaura Jones; and the US Representative is Cori Bush, the same Cori Bush who tweeted that our country is “racist AF”. Oh, and here’s the actual list of the world’s most dangerous cities; St. Louis comes in at number 13. Mayor Jones is cutting 4 million dollars from the police department’s budget and eliminating 98 currently vacant officer positions. Congresswoman Bush’s take:

Previous administrations spent more per capita on policing than all comparable cities, building a police force that is larger than that of any city comparable to St. Louis.

But even as more and more money has gone into policing the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department continues to be the deadliest police force in the nation, year after year — all while violence in our communities continues to skyrocket.........read more.........