{"id":111196,"date":"2025-07-10T19:47:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T00:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=111196"},"modified":"2025-07-10T19:47:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T00:47:43","slug":"111196","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=111196","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/patrickbetdavid\/status\/1943335175489720691\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Patrick Bet-David<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An interesting pattern.<br \/>\nHere are the 10 U.S. cities with the highest homicide rates and the last time each had a Republican mayor:<\/p>\n<p>1. St. Louis, MO \u2013 1949<br \/>\n2. Baltimore, MD \u2013 1967<br \/>\n3. New Orleans, LA \u2013 1872<br \/>\n4. Detroit, MI \u2013 1962<br \/>\n5. Cleveland, OH \u2013 1989<br \/>\n6. Memphis, TN \u2013 1967<br \/>\n7. Las Vegas, NV \u2013 1975<br \/>\n8. Kansas City, MO \u2013 1991<br \/>\n9. Newark, NJ \u2013 1953<br \/>\n10. Chicago, IL \u2013 1931<\/p>\n<p>Bad policies destroy great cities.<br \/>\nIf the leadership doesn\u2019t change, you have 3 choices:<br \/>\n\u2022Change the policies<br \/>\n\u2022Change the city you live in<br \/>\n\u2022Accept the consequences<\/p>\n<p>But choose\u2014because doing nothing is a decision too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Bet-David An interesting pattern. Here are the 10 U.S. cities with the highest homicide rates and the last time each had a Republican mayor: 1. St. Louis, MO \u2013 1949 2. Baltimore, MD \u2013 1967 3. New Orleans, LA \u2013 1872 4. Detroit, MI \u2013 1962 5. Cleveland, OH \u2013 1989 6. Memphis, TN &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=111196\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goobermint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111197,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111196\/revisions\/111197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}