Detroit, MI - Mayor Mike Duggan - DEMOCRAT Oakland, CA - Mayor Jean Quan - DEMOCRAT Memphis, TN - Mayor A C Wharton - DEMOCRAT St. Louis, MO - Mayor Francis G. Slay - DEMOCRAT Cleveland, OH - Mayor Frank G. Jackson - DEMOCRAT Baltimore, MD - Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake - DEMOCRAT Milwaukee, WI - Mayor Tom Barrett - DEMOCRAT Birmingham, AL - Mayor William A. Bell - DEMOCRAT Newark, NJ - Mayor Ras Baraka - DEMOCRAT Kansas City, MO - Mayor Sly James - Independent (but probably a DEMOCRAT) http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/democrats-run-highest-crime-cities-america
The ten poorest are also democrat. Buffalo Cincinnati Cleveland Miami St. Louis El Paso Milwaukee Philadelphia Newark http://eaglerising.com/1912/democrats-run-americas-ten-poorest-cities/
The fact that all of our very poorest cities are run by Democrats doesn't prove that Democratic policies lead to poverty, but it sure suggests it. Fortunately, sociologists and economists have studied some of our older cities long enough to figure out what's going on. We now know why Democratic policies lead to poverty. Two Harvard economists described the "Curley Effect," named after Mayor James Curley of Boston who was elected to Boston's Board of Aldermen in 1904 despite being in prison on a fraud conviction when the election was held. Mayor Curley showed Democrats how to win elections by taxing productive people and channeling the proceeds to less well-off groups. This bought Irish votes. As taxes went higher, productive citizens who tended to vote Republican fled to the suburbs, which tipped the balance further and further in favor of Democratic candidates. In cities like Baltimore and Detroit, registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by 8 to 1 or more. Is it any wonder that they've become single-party cesspools with no hope for change? Driving productive citizens away may be good politics but it isn't good economics. 100 years ago when Henry Ford introduced the Model T, Detroit was the "place to be" for ambitious entrepreneurs. Tens of thousands of blacks were drawn from the South to fill well-paying jobs in the industrial North. After years of liberal misrule, Detroit has fallen so far that "black flight" has become common and major parts of the city are turning back into wilderness. Baltimore hasn't suffered quite as badly, but it, too, shows the damage done by Democratic policies. In 1950, Baltimore's median income was 7% above the national average; in 2011, after 48 years of Democrat misrule, it's 22% below. Boston, where the Curley effect originated, was in worse shape in 1980 than Baltimore is now, although it never got as bad as Detroit or Newark. In 1980, Boston's population had fallen 30% in the preceding 30 years and its crime rate was higher than Baltimore's today. Now, Boston is booming and crime has dropped. What turned it around? Did Republicans take over city hall? Not exactly; state voters trimmed the excess taxes and productive people moved back in. Massachusetts voters finally had enough and adopted a Proposition which forced Boston to cut taxes by 75%. Just as California's Proposition 13 cut taxes enough to revive San Francisco and Oakland, people returned to Boston. Its population rose 10% since 1980 and its crime rate is now 25% lower than Baltimore's. Alas, tax reform seldom comes from within. In Baltimore's election last Sept. 13, the incumbent, who'd promised an inconsequential tax cut of 2% spread over 9 years, won re-election just as a classic big-city Democrat won the Mayor's office in Washington, DC. Turnarounds in Boston, San Francisco, and Oakland couldn't come from within because the Democratic political machine had too much muscle after so many years of robbing the cities and driving away affluent voters. It took statewide initiatives to slash tax rates so that the cities could survive. http://www.scragged.com/articles/democrat-disaster-cities
My contention is it not the color of the skin. imo one of the main drivers are the economic incentives created by the handouts. those handouts have destroyed the need for inner city men to provide for their family. Women don't need to be selective about their mates... but they need to have kids to get the govt money. These problems were predicted by David Stockman and others like the austrian school of economics decades ago. Blacks used to have fine family structure... why did that breakdown... that is the issue.