by #AlexHenderson in #AlterNet:

"Ever since President Richard Nixon's 1968 campaign, the GOP has been portraying itself as the party of law and order — often equating liberal and progressive policies with high crime rates. Yet many European countries that are more liberal than the U.S. also have much lower rates of violent crime."

https://www.alternet.org/we-could-do-it-differently/

#crime #Republicans #GOP #US #Europe