Basically if you look at the cities and compare them to NYC, which was out of control, it is basically the liberal policies that are running those cities. NYC under Giuliani allowed his police to use different methods to clean up his cities. Rahm Emanuel in Chicago and like the Philly Mayor here are taking tools away from the police to lower the gun violence and one of the biggest tools that can be used but the ACLU screams, is when the police use stop n frisk, which was used in NYC along withe the "Broken Windows" theory applied, which if you have ever been to N Philly or those neighborhoods, you can see none of that being applied because people will scream racism and over zealous infringement of the 4th amendment by the police. Just my 2 cents, there are thousands of citizens who deserve to have their children and themselves be safe and those cities are not doing it

Whats causing the spike(real or perceived) in violence/crime in American cities recently.

F rudi what a racist, ignorant POS. First of all urban America was the first place corporate America took the jobs from.where was the money for retraining? Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Bush 1/2 did jack SH*t. When did your hear them say anything and they knew what was happening. I was a young man in the 70's they did nothing but carp about liberals just like we going to see now. I cannot remember anything the GOP did to fix poverty in my lifetime. But they will use that bs as a prop to get racist whites to vote for them just like Trump just did. Now watch and see what they do for those working class folks in the red states.i will be surprised if they do anything

Two,the white cops never mess with the real bad asses aka the killers in the big cities, they always messing with poor everyday folks over trivial bs that they escalate into violence. When have you heard about them shooting somebody in Chicago or any other big city who has been terrorizing an area for years? Freaking never,somebody else takes those A-holes out.

Three I have lived in the red dominated states do they have prisons? Yes they freaking do .the GOP dominates a lot of these states, and folks get killed in them every day, and they suck to live in on top of that.you damn cannot pay me to live in them now

Also, the cost of living drove a lot of the blacks with roots in the Carolinas, Virginia, GA back to cheaper areas where they had a chance to buy a home.They have been leaving in droves, why do you think all the deep south red states trying to come up with all that Jim Crow voter suppression crap

Please keep up with the comments. Showing your true colors. FYI Nobody has paid me to live in MS my whole life. I pay taxes on the contrary. Move to California if you don't like it. And Trump has already done a lot for me. First, I invested 100 percent in my company's stock at 80 a share. It was stagnate the last 3 years under Obama, but the day after the election it jumped up to 92 dollars a share and I have an almost 30 percent rate of return. Thanks Trump. Second, for the last 3 years I was barely getting 40 hours a week, but after the election I am working most Saturdays which pays time and a half and have even gotten Sundays, which pays double time. So, personally, from a Red State Perspective, Trump has already helped Me and My Family out more than Obama ever Did. Thank you Trump for starting to make America Great Again.

I averaged 90,000 during the Obama yrs but I can see this ignorant bastard costing me job if he keeps pissing off the Arabs and the Chinese and they start canceling orders,just like gw bush bs cost me my job in 2003. I moved out of a red state to a blue state by the way in 2008. I have lived in 10 big cities in red and blue states,the quality of life is better in the blue states if you have marketable skills. Mississippi? my mother lives in Meridian, I have visited her ever since she moved back down there from b-more in 1978 that is how I know the GOP has done jack shit and they run that place. i will be there in May

showing colors? get real the folks talking all that liberal this and that bs refuse to look at how the gop never solved any social issues or even attempt to.

BlackFam, didn't you hear? Trump called his boss and personally wanted to thank him for his vote with the extra hours

Nothing personal, Yates. I don't know you but you gotta admit that's a little far fetched. I take it you gave credit to Obama for every good thing that happened to you over the past 8 years?

Yates well said....and the fact the democratic party is sooo out of touch with middle america speaks volumes of their position on many issues, as someone who lives in the south but does make it 1xmonth to the NE, you can see totall differences in ideas and social issues, teh south labled as racist is totally disrespctful for all the good people that live in these areas. The US is a better place when there are 2 or more competent political parties but the dems haved moved so far out of touch it is destroying themselves and many cities. There needs to be a dem that leads and distances the party from the celebs and the alt left, that is running and ruining the democratic party

I posted back in November about this bullshit. I live in FL, we have everyone/thing here. I don't believe nor follow everyone else's ideas nor should anyone follow mine. I go to NYC for the weekend and holy shit. Just about had to beat some miserable homosexual's ass on the subway. A simple conversation turns into "you're from the red state that made us lose the election." I was proud of myself for not getting nasty but listening to his reasoning for getting a bunch of heads to turn to our direction. But after a few minutes I had to stick the knife deeper and tell him that me and the three guys surrounding him voted for trump. Everyone else looked the other way. If we were younger he could've had a horrible recovery. My point is, you need to mind your business and respect everyone's views. My journey in life brought me to my belief in certain ideologies. As long as you don't present an immediate threat to my family and country, do what you gotta do to make yourself happy.