the first two paragraphs are recapping something that happened on CBS News. then this is the 3rd paragraph:
The New York Times’ David W. Chen, in an article published on Labor Day 2025, emphasizes that some of the most violent cities in the U.S. are in red states.
and then the entire rest of this article is just quoting from that NYT article, adding nothing of his own.
here are the following paragraphs. emphasis added to show how he’s just quoting the same guy from the NYT over and over again.
“When Tennessee’s Republican governor, Bill Lee, dispatched his National Guard troops to Washington to support President Trump’s crackdown on crime,” Chen reports, “Democrats and other critics wondered why he didn’t keep them within state lines. Memphis, after all, has long been one of the most dangerous cities in the country, with a murder rate about twice as high as the nation’s capital, according to FBI statistics. Nashville has a higher rate of violent crime than Washington as well.”
The New York Times reporter continues, “The same questions could be asked of other Republican governors like Greg Abbott in Texas, Mike DeWine in Ohio and Mike Kehoe in Missouri, since cities under their purview all have higher rates of violent crime than the nation’s capital. Yet no Republican governor has asked for federal intervention.”
Chen notes that the “image of red-state governors mustering uniformed troops for duty in blue-state cities” has “left many Americans with the foreboding sense of a nation dangerously divided, perhaps even drifting toward open conflict.”
Chen explains, “Kansas City, St. Louis and Springfield, Mo.; Birmingham, Ala.; Cleveland, Dayton and Toledo, Ohio; Tulsa, Okla.; Memphis and Nashville; Houston; Little Rock, Ark.; Salt Lake City; and Shreveport, La., all have crime rates comparable to Washington’s, according to FBI statistics…. Indeed, Republican governors who have so far declined to ask the president for an intervention in their cities might be tempted to rethink that stance.”
I don’t know if they still have journalism classes in high school. but if they do, a high school kid would get a poor grade on this. you can’t just copy-paste an NYT article and turn it is as your own homework.
The New York Times has a paywall. This article isn’t journalism, it’s thinly veiled news liberation.
7/10 of the most violent cities (>100k population) in the country are in red states. Chicago and Boston, Trump’s next stated targets, are 92/200 and 71/200, respectively. Houston, The US’s fourth largest city behind Chicago, has a violent crime rate more than double Chicago’s, placing it at #16 most dangerous. Nashville, comparable in population to Boston, has a violent crime rate almost double Boston’s, placing it at #18.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_crime_rate
