@Real Music,
Real Music wrote:
El Paso Sheriff Blasts Donald Trump's 'False Narrative'On Border Crime.
Donald Lyin' Trump was quoting Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in his claims about El Paso's crime rates and the barrier here. Paxton, in turn, pulled these claims straight out of his butt. El Paso has never been a city with one of the highest violent crime rates in the country. At worst its rates have been middling. Between 1985 and 2014, its rate reached the highest point in 1993. The rate drastically fell from that point since to the level where
El Paso was rated as one of the top safest cities in the nation, decades before construction of the barrier commenced in 2008. Illegal immigration played a small part in these crimes, the great majority of it being perpetrated by American citizens. The barrier was immaterial to these statistics.
According to a January
article by the El Paso Times,
Quote:Former El Paso Police Chief Russ Leach told the El Paso Times in 1997 that people are quick to credit law enforcement as crime rates ebb and flow, but the residents of El Paso are actually behind the city's safety.
"It's not the police, and it's not the conditions in the community: It's the people,” he said at the time.
There's a disdain in the rest of Texas for El Paso seeing as how the population tends to vote Democratic in a blood red state, and is more than eighty percent Hispanic.
Generally speaking, we're pretty laid back people.
EPTimes report
