What’s the state of violent crime in Houston and Harris County? It’s complicated.
By Brady Stone
Houston Chronicle
September 12, 2022
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Two months from Election Day, the debate over crime and public safety in Harris County already has hit a boiling point.
Democratic leaders insist crime is down and they are supporting law enforcement. And their Republican challengers are
staking their campaigns on the opposite assertion: crime is out of control, and Democrats are to blame.
In reality, the situation is
much more complicated than that.
It's true, violent crime
has spiked in Houston and Harris County. But the same can be said of
nearly every large city and county in the nation — and Houston is far
from the most dangerous city in the country.
Criminologists also point to many possible factors underpinning the
crime surge, making it impossible to sum up the situation by pointing to
a single statistic or policy decision.
“It's not a Republican thing or a Democrat thing, especially with the
increase over the last four years. It's been a national increase,
clearly,” said New Orleans-based criminologist Jeff Asher, who added
that Houston’s murder rate is “middle of the pack” for
major American cities.
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Who takes advice from a criminologist from New Orleans?
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