Drowning out the truth about cities Democrats have run into the ground

Dan O'Donnell writes an exhaustive piece about how black lives have fared in cities run by Democrats. The piece is filled with relevant facts, and ends this way:

By every conceivable metric, black lives are worse off in Democrat-controlled cities.

Murder rates are higher, violent crime rates are higher, poverty rates are higher, child poverty rates are higher, black unemployment rates are higher, schools are worse, and populations are more segregated. Black lives are even more likely to be lost in police shootings in Democrat-controlled cities.

Yet politicizing police shootings is how the Democratic Party tells the nation that black lives matter, joining a chorus of misinformation that drowns out the truth about the cities that they have run into the ground: If black lives really mattered in those cities, then why haven’t black lives improved in the decades that Democrats have controlled them?

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