If we're gonna talk about the data involving criminal justice policies, we've gotta be clear about this.
Almost no criminal justice policy is even as broad as a state-wide initiative. An exception to that is New York's cashless bail system, which might as well be rebranded as revolving-door jails, which is a statewide (and dumb) policy.
Almost every other issue is at the local level.
Louisiana is usually a Republican leaning state. New Orleans is a deep blue area of the state. The problems in New Orleans of having an average response time of over two hours to a 911 call isn't state wide. The issue of 911 calls about a rape in progress being downgraded to non-emergency isn't a state-wide issue, it's a New Orleans issue. When the New Orleans DA chose not to prosecute a man who car jacked a woman at gun point and was found in possession of the car and the gun after being tracked from the scene of the crime by the woman's mobile device that was still in the car because it wasn't equitable to prosecute a black man at the accusation of an Asian woman, that's a New Orleans problem.
Even though Arizona went to Biden, Arizona is generally a red state. Tempe isn't a red city. It's a blue freaking city. The twenty-five minute response time to a 911 call is a Tempe issue, not an Arizona issue.
Even in Republican led states that are among the highest statistically in violent crime, all of the violent areas of those states are run by Democrats and woke prosecutors.
If we're going to see what the real problem is, we have to acknowledge who's passing the policies that are leading to these spikes in violent crime.