Here’s the part you’re not supposed to say out loud:
Most of America doesn’t look like the crime statistics you hear quoted on cable news. A relatively small number of cities drive a disproportionate share of the nation’s homicides—and they’ve been run under the same political leadership and policy assumptions for decades.
That doesn’t mean violence isn’t real.
It means the problem isn’t evenly distributed.
And pretending it is keeps us from asking harder questions about what actually works.
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