From the Heritage Foundation, I'm Michelle Cordero, and this is Heritage Explains. Recently, some on the left have tried to advance their arguments by claiming that rising crime rates are due to policies pursued by red states.

Here's former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on CNN.

If you look at real crime statistics, which they're not interested in examining, the states

with the highest crime levels are states run by Republicans.

That's just a fact.

And here's Larry Krasner, District Attorney of Philadelphia, on a local Fox News station.

These states in the United States that have a rate of homicide that is 40% higher are MAGA states.

They are Trump states.

I'll say it again.

The rate of homicide in Trump states as compared to Biden states, take all 50 of them, is 40% higher.

You know Republicans say the opposite.

It's all the blue cities.

Republicans lie.

I mean, let's just get down to it.

Republicans lie.

One liberal organization called The Third Way even went so far as to publish a study, arguing

that Republicans are to blame for the spike in murders across the country, and that study was picked up by dozens of liberal media outlets.

But facts are powerful and stubborn things.

Heritage recently released a new report, a rebuttal to the Third Ways report that shows that Democrat policies and Democrat-led

cities and counties are responsible for rising crime rates in these red states. In fact, in the 30

American cities with the highest murder rates, 27 have Democratic mayors. Today, we have one of the authors of this report on to explain more.

Cully Stimson, a widely recognized policy expert in crime control, is the deputy director of Heritage's

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