Leading Causes of Death

• Heart disease: 695,547.
• Cancer: 605,213.
• COVID-19: 416,893.
• Accidents (unintentional injuries): 224,935.
• Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 162,890.
• Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 142,342.
• Alzheimer's disease: 119,399.
• Diabetes: 103,294.

Don't believe Covid is just a virus like the flu. Don't flirt with an early demise. Get your vaccination.

 

Average charge for COVID-19 hospitalization, by state
Alia Paavola - Wednesday, October 20th, 2021

The cost of a complex and noncomplex COVID-19 hospitalization in each state varies, according to a new interactive map from Fair Health, an independent nonprofit focused on enhancing price transparency in healthcare.

To determine the average cost of both a complex and noncomplex COVID-19 hospitalization across states, Fair Health used its most recent FH Total Treatment Cost COVID-19 benchmarks, which were determined from its database of millions of billed medical claims across the U.S.

For the cost breakdown, Fair Health defined a complex COVID-19 hospitalization as one in which a patient is admitted to the hospital and required ventilation or admission to the intensive care unit. The total charge includes ICU costs, ventilator costs and costs for room and board of increased complexity. In comparison, a noncomplex COVID-19 hospitalization is one in which a patient is admitted to the hospital but does not require ventilation or admission to the ICU. This includes charges such as room and board, laboratory testing, imaging and IVs.

The state with the highest average charge for a complex COVID-19 hospitalization is Nevada, at $472,213. The lowest is in Maryland, where facilities charge an average of $131,965.

Here is the average charge for a complex COVID-19 hospitalization and noncomplex COVID-19 hospitalization in each state:

Alabama
Complex: $279,604
Noncomplex: $51,511

Alaska
Complex: $417,208
Noncomplex: $108,870

Arizona
Complex: $361,540
Noncomplex: $95,966

Arkansas
Complex: $242,358
Not complex: $42,568

California
Complex: $461,780
Noncomplex: $111,213

Colorado
Complex: $350,456
Noncomplex: $72,068

Connecticut
Complex: $239,251
Noncomplex: $55,660

Delaware
Complex: $272,929
Noncomplex: $43,767

District of Columbia
Complex: $277,806
Noncomplex: $44,433

Florida
Complex: $355,450
Noncomplex: $67,620

Georgia
Complex: $292,931
Noncomplex: $61,254

Hawaii
Complex: $245,665
Noncomplex: $67,393

Idaho
Complex: $303,873
Noncomplex: $95,584

Illinois
Complex: $277,078
Noncomplex: $54,574

Indiana
Complex: $242,582
Noncomplex: $41,064

Iowa
Complex: $278,396
Noncomplex: $51,641

Kansas
Complex: $308,910
Noncomplex: $53,269

Kentucky
Complex: $246,423
Noncomplex: $43,244

Louisiana
Complex: $274,374
Noncomplex: $42,681

Maine
Complex: $302,704
Noncomplex: $71,036

Maryland
Complex: $131,965
Noncomplex: $31,339

Massachusetts
Complex: $209,209
Noncomplex: $62,894

Michigan
Complex: $207,926
Noncomplex: $35,082

Minnesota
Complex: $262,910
Noncomplex: $44,631

Mississippi
Complex: $301,713
Noncomplex: $73,901

Missouri
Complex: $275,719
Noncomplex: $53,514

Montana
Complex: $220,851
Noncomplex: $97,905

Nebraska
Complex: $253,189
Noncomplex: $58,798

Nevada
Complex: $472,213
Noncomplex: $102,115

New Hampshire
Complex: $256,069
Noncomplex: $62,621

New Jersey
Complex: $377,198
Noncomplex: $87,301

New Mexico
Complex: $272,593
Noncomplex: $98,336

New York
Complex: $272,746
Noncomplex: $72,163

North Carolina
Complex: $234,988
Noncomplex: $44,977

North Dakota
Complex: $210,995
Noncomplex: $41,695

Ohio
Complex: $255,776
Noncomplex: $41,605

Oklahoma
Complex: $373,128
Noncomplex: $59,413

Oregon
Complex: $261,022
Noncomplex: $82,907

Pennsylvania
Complex: $373,506
Noncomplex: $77,844

Rhode Island
Complex: $242,162
Noncomplex: $72,971

South Carolina
Complex: $302,258
Noncomplex: $75,381

South Dakota
Complex: $266,635
Noncomplex: $45,100

Tennessee
Complex: $292,556
Noncomplex: $58,281

Texas
Complex: $378,052
Noncomplex: $63,647

Utah
Complex: $261,593
Noncomplex: $96,611

Vermont
Complex: $253,036
Noncomplex: $70,792

Virginia
Complex: $279,741
Noncomplex: $46,183

Washington
Complex: $334,224
Noncomplex: $80,336

West Virginia
Complex: $216,126
Noncomplex: $43,311

Wisconsin
Complex: $269,412
Noncomplex: $53,268

Wyoming
Complex: $353,623
Noncomplex: $102,772

https://www.beckershospitalreview.c...ge-for-covid-19-hospitalization-by-state.html

 

By the way, this is old information Dec 2022

 

‘It Shouldn’t Be Vilified’: Fox News Doctor Slams DeSantis For Attacking Covid-19 Vaccine
By Jamie FreveleSep 18th, 2023, 12:41 pm

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) recently advised his constituents under the age of 65 that they shouldn’t get the new Covid vaccine, but one doctor is saying his approach is wrong — on Fox News.

Dr. Marc Siegel, a Fox News contributor and regular commentator, appeared on America’s Newsroom with hosts Bill Hemmer and Dana Perino to discuss the fentanyl crisis as well as the comments by DeSantis. And Siegel not only expressed his disagreement with DeSantis, but said that giving people the freedom to choose whether or not they should get the vaccine “doesn’t mean denigrating” it.

Siegel also made clear that it’s not a governor’s decision to make, saying: “I think he did a great job at the beginning of the pandemic with nursing homes, with keeping businesses open, with keeping schools open. Hurray for that. He should not be weighing in on vaccines.”


First, he expressed his confidence in the new vaccine:

This particular vaccine is quite safe. It’s a tiny bit different than the previous one. It’s been looked at. Yes, the pharmaceutical companies should be more transparent. Yes, I’m very confident in this vaccine.

But then he went even further into why DeSantis should not be making medical decisions for the people living in his state:

But let me tell you where this vaccine decision should be made: not at a governor pulpit, but in a doctor’s office. It shouldn’t be vilified. Choice, Dana, doesn’t mean denigrating something. How about we bring it to the doctor and the patient? I say to the patient, ‘When did you have Covid last? I don’t want you to have this vaccine. You just had Covid. You had a bad reaction to the last vaccine. I don’t want you to have that.’ I make my recommendations, and the patient decides. Over the age of 65 for sure is the high-risk group. But I want to be able to do it on a one-on-one basis.

Watch the video above via Fox News.


https://www.mediaite.com/news/it-sh...lams-desantis-for-attacking-covid-19-vaccine/

 

In September, 2022, DuhSantis caused 49 migrants to be flown from Texas to Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. And Now:
Migrant case moves forward to Texas grand jury
https://www.mvtimes.com/2023/09/18/migrant-case-moves-forward-texas-grand-jury/

 

Law violators still breaking the law and still in this country.

 

Behind the scenes, Ron DeSantis is making things worse for Kevin McCarthy
The Florida governor strategized Wednesday with leaders of the House cadre pushing Speaker Kevin McCarthy to the brink.



Ron DeSantis speaks during a fundraising event.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis talked on the phone Wednesday with conservative Reps. Chip Roy, Thomas Massie and Bob Good. | Charlie Neibergall/AP Photo

By EUGENE DANIELS

09/14/2023 11:25 AM EDT

In the high-stakes fight that is threatening to shut down the federal government next month — and tear House Republicans apart — Ron DeSantis is taking sides.

The Florida governor spent about 30 minutes on the phone Wednesday with conservative Reps. Chip Roy of Texas, Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Bob Good of Virginia — leaders of the cadre that is pushing House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to embrace a shutdown if Democrats won’t agree to hard-right policy demands.

DeSantis’ message, according to a person familiar with the call: “I got your back. Keep fighting.”

The call is the latest signal that DeSantis is working to insert himself into the spending fight on the Hill in a bid to elevate his standing among Republican primary voters.

“Ron DeSantis knows that both parties — including the current and previous administration — are to blame for Washington’s reckless spending spree,” said DeSantis campaign spokesperson Andrew Romeo. “He is urging congressional Republicans to hold the line in this current spending standoff and end days of rubber stamping multi-trillion dollar spending bills that harm the American people.”

DeSantis spent three terms in the House and is a founding member of the House Freedom Caucus, the hard-line group that is pushing McCarthy to fight harder against Democrats on spending and other members — and threatening his gavel if he doesn’t.

Still, it’s notable DeSantis is associating himself with McCarthy’s internal foes as tensions inside the House GOP reach a boiling point. Inside a closed-door conference meeting Thursday, McCarthy exploded at his critics.

“If you think you scare me because you want to file a motion to vacate, move the fucking motion,” he said, referring to the ouster maneuver that has been discussed by Good and other lawmakers.

The person who described the phone call did so on the condition of anonymity. A spokesperson for Roy, who has served as an informal leader of the conservative splinter group, declined to comment. A spokesperson for McCarthy did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment on DeSantis’ role.

In other recent signs of his interest in the spending fight, DeSantis released a video knocking the “D.C. establishment” for spending too much. And in an interview with CBS’ Norah O’Donnell, he blamed both Democrats and Republicans for overspending.

DeSantis has shown much more attention to the spending clash than the GOP presidential frontrunner, former President Donald Trump, who has generally left McCarthy alone to handle fiscal matters.

Trump has recently been more interested in another aspect of internal House GOP politics — the push to impeach President Joe Biden, which was formalized by McCarthy on Tuesday after months of pressure from Trump and his allies.

Rachael Bade and Olivia Beavers contributed to this report.

 

Ethics? We don't need no stinking ethics. We don't even believe in the Constitution let alone the rule of law.



Florida ethics cases sit on DeSantis’ desk as he vows to ‘break the swamp’
Skyler Swisher, Orlando Sentinel
Tue, September 19, 2023 at 10:26 AM MDT·7 min read
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As Gov.

vows to clean up Washington if elected president, dozens of ethics orders seeking to punish the misdeeds of Florida politicians have been languishing on his desk in Tallahassee.

The Republican governor hasn’t signed an ethics order since Jan. 28, 2021, according to his official website. Until he takes action, politicians and public employees won’t have to fork over thousands of dollars in fines, even if they settled their ethics cases and admitted wrongdoing.

The list of ethics charges includes a former Orange County commissioner who failed to disclose she had a financial interest in a vote. Another case involves a Manatee County commissioner who made headlines for adding herself and four others to a VIP list for the COVID-19 vaccine when it was in short supply.

The backlog signals that Florida isn’t serious about enforcing ethics laws, said Ben Wilcox, research director at Integrity Florida, a government watchdog group.


“It is a bad message to public officials out there that they can maybe get away with violations of Florida’s ethics laws,” he said.

Forty-two pending orders recommending penalties await the governor’s action, according to an Aug. 24 report from Kerrie Stillman, executive director of the Florida Commission on Ethics.

Under Florida law, fines can’t be collected in those cases until DeSantis signs off on the commission’s recommended penalties, said Lynn Blais, a spokeswoman for the ethics commission.

“The commission has no power to impose its recommended penalties,” she said. “Only after it is imposed is the attorney general’s office able to collect.”

‘Start doing his job’
One of those recommended orders involves former Orange County Commissioner Betsy VanderLey, who voted to steer about $100,000 in county money to an engineering firm that was also paying her in an undisclosed conflict.

Environmental activist Chuck O’Neal filed an ethics complaint against VanderLey in the summer of 2020, and she agreed to pay a $1,000 fine in December 2021.

O’Neal was surprised to learn DeSantis hasn’t imposed penalties, more than three years after he filed the complaint.

“There doesn’t seem to be any accountability in Florida state government whatsoever,” O’Neal said. “You can have the governor dismiss elected officials doing their jobs, yet ones found in violation of ethics complaints have no repercussions.”

The governor’s slowness in signing ethics orders doesn’t square with his recent, high-profile suspension of Orange-Osceola State Attorney Monique Worrell, O’Neal said.

“He needs to quit running around Iowa going to picnics and start doing his job as governor here in the state,” O’Neal said.

DeSantis accused Worrell, a Democrat, of not aggressively prosecuting crime, saying she was “clearly and fundamentally derelict” in her duties. Worrell called the governor’s action politically motivated.

The reason for the ethics backlog is unclear. Jeremy Redfern, a DeSantis spokesman, did not respond to a request for comment. The issue has flown mostly under the radar in Florida politics, although it was noted in a 2020 USA Today Network report and then again in a WFLA television report in July.

On the campaign trail, DeSantis is vowing to take a tough stance on corruption in Washington, telling voters he wants to “break the swamp” if elected president.

“We need a new era of accountability with these agencies in D.C., and we will bring that on day one with me,” DeSantis said at one event.

High-profile cases
The list of recommended orders involves both Republicans and Democrats and includes several high-profile cases.

Vanessa Baugh, a former Manatee County commissioner, came under scrutiny for creating a VIP list for a COVID-19 vaccine pop-up event in February 2021 when the shot was in high demand that included herself, a developer and three others. Baugh has been an ardent supporter of DeSantis, voting to name a park after the governor.

The commission found she violated the ethics code by using her office to deviate from the county’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution policy, and Baugh, who said she chose not to receive the vaccine at the pop-up event, agreed in November to pay an $8,000 fine.

Action is still pending on a recommended $20,000 fine for no-party spoiler candidate Alex Rodriguez over ethics charges stemming from a 2020 South Florida state Senate race.

Rodriguez pleaded guilty to criminal charges that he accepted $45,000 in bribes as part of an alleged “ghost” candidate scheme that prosecutors say was orchestrated to siphon votes away from former Democratic state Sen. José Javier Rodríguez.

The list also features former Apopka Mayor Joe Kilsheimer, who faced allegations that he vacationed at the taxpayer’s expense by improperly billing expenses during a national mayors’ conference in 2017. Kilsheimer agreed to reimburse the city $668 and pay $2,500 in penalties.

Some cases involve Democrats, including former Broward County Mayor Dale Holness and Dustin Daniels, the chief of staff when Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum was mayor of Tallahassee.

Holness agreed to pay $1,000 in an ethics charge that he repeatedly failed to accurately disclose his income as required by state law. The commission found Daniels violated the ethics code by using city equipment to send a campaign-related mass email, recommending a $1,000 fine.

Mark Herron, a Tallahassee lawyer representing seven people on the list, said his clients usually are “ready, willing and able” to pay the fines.

But “they are not beating down the door saying please get him to sign the final order,” Herron said.

‘Toothless tiger’
Florida law limits the ability of the Ethics Commission to enforce the ethics code, which deals with abuse of office and other standards of conduct, said Wilcox, research director for the government watchdog group.

“People have called the Commission on Ethics a toothless tiger,” he said. “It’s not any fault of the Commission on Ethics for lack of aggressiveness. It’s the fact the Florida Legislature has not allowed that agency to be a really effective enforcer of ethics laws.”

The ethics commission cannot self-initiate an investigation and must receive a sworn complaint to open a probe. That is like only allowing the police to stop a speeding car if another driver calls and complains, Wilcox said.

If the commission deems a complaint legally sufficient, it is investigated, and the commission votes on whether to find probable cause that a violation occurred. If that happens, officials accused of wrongdoing can request a hearing before an administrative judge. They also can try to settle the case with the commission.

The commission can recommend penalties, including fines, reprimands and even removal from office. But it’s up to agency heads to enforce those penalties.

Recommended penalties against most public officers, employees, or candidates are forwarded to the governor.

Findings against state representatives and senators are referred to the House speaker and Senate president. Legislative leaders also have not been aggressive in levying penalties against legislators who commit ethical violations, Wilcox said.

As of late, the nine-member ethics commission has been shaken up by revelations that its chairman violated a state law barring public employees from serving. Glen Gilzean landed a $400,000-a-year job as administrator of DeSantis’ Disney oversight district in May and continued to serve as ethics chairman until resigning from the ethics board last month.

The new chair is Ashley Lukis, a lawyer whose husband served as DeSantis’ chief of staff.

One of DeSantis’ recent picks has sparked controversy. He appointed Tina Descovich, a co-founder of the conservative education group Moms for Liberty. Under state law, the ethics commission — appointed by the governor, House speaker and Senate president — must be bipartisan with no more than five members belonging to the same party.

Criticism that Florida’s ethics commission isn’t effective is unwarranted, said Caroline Klancke, director of the Florida Ethics Institute.

Earlier this year, lawmakers doubled the maximum fine from $10,000 to $20,000 for an ethics violation and increased government transparency by expanding financial disclosure requirements for local officials.

“Florida has some of the most extensive ethics laws applicable to public officers and employees in the entire country,” said Klancke, a former general counsel and deputy executive director for the ethics commission.

But O’Neal, who filed the ethics complaint against VanderLey, said he sees a need for improvements based on how his case was handled.

“If we are going to have an ethics commission, it should function in a timely manner, dispense a just penalty and have that penalty enforced somewhat concurrently with the ethics violation,” O’Neal said.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-ethics-cases-sit-desantis-162600484.html

 

You fucking retards definitely don't know the constitution! So much so, you had to put a fucking warning label on it!!!! Fucking scumbags!!!!

 

And who is getting hurt the most? The children of Florida.

It takes a while to show up but I have seen it more than once myself. Once a school system comes under attack they lose their best people and especially their best teachers first. Because they can get jobs somewhere else. Then no quality people want to move into a snake pit so the incompetent and dysfunctional begin to grow. Until eventually parents figure out their kids can't get into the colleges they want of get the jobs they want because they are basically uneducated. But by then there is years of distraction and some of those kids are damaged for the rest of their lives. All just because some demagogue believes "owning the libs" will make him president. So who gives a fuck about the kids.


Florida is undergoing a public school 'brain drain' – and it's all Ron DeSantis' fault: columnist

Adam Nichols
September 20, 2023, 3:40 PM ET



(Photo via AFP)


Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has quietly moved away from much of his anti-woke crusade, swayed by tanking poll results that suggest his campaign to become president is in big trouble.

But a columnist wrote Wednesday his policy shift has not altered his conservative attack on his state’s education system – and it’s created a severe “brain drain.”

“DeSantis has enacted multiple 'educational gag orders' that criminalize classroom discussions of race, gender identity, and ugly historical realities that might make white students 'feel guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress,'" wrote Kali Holloway in The Nation.

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She went on, “The end result is an exodus of teachers, and what Florida Education Association (FEA) head Andrew Spar has called “one of the worst teacher and staff shortages” in the state’s history.’

Spar said teachers across the state have told him they want out of the career, beaten by encroaching right-wing politics and threats of legal action if they inadvertently teach the wrong thing – coupled with low pay.

Halloway reported that, in January 2019, when DeSantis was sworn in as governor, the state had 2,217 teacher vacancies in K-12 public schools.

In January 2023 it had 5,294 and, in August this year, 7,000.

The exodus from public schools is reflected in higher education. His takeover of the state university New College, filling its board of trustees with his allies, drove 40 percent of faculty to quit.

DeSantis has shrugged off any suggestions of an impending educational brain drain,” wrote Holloway.

“ Of the New College faculty departures, he said, “If you’re a professor in, like, you know, Marxist studies, that’s not a loss for Florida.”


https://www.rawstory.com/desantis-education/

 

And for the rest of the story (there's always the rest of the story when it's wrong story and stumbler) .........​

Rankings: Education - States With the Best Education (usnews.com)
The quality of a community’s schools can be central to a family’s aspirations. And though public education has largely been a local matter for school boards and states that allocate most of schools’ funding, the federal government has played a large role for the past several decades. The No Child Left Behind Act, for example, put in place annual testing requirements for states, while the Every Student Succeeds Act enshrined the annual testing requirement but rolled back the federal government’s involvement in K-12 education.

In evaluating the best states for education – one of eight categories driving the overall Best States rankings – U.S. News examined metrics tied to both higher education and the space from pre-kindergarten through high school. Learn more about the best states for education below, and see the Best States methodology for a detailed look at the data behind the Best States rankings.

Florida Rankings | US News Best States
Florida attained statehood in 1845, yet not until a pair of railroad barons built lines down the Atlantic and Gulf coasts in the late 1800s and early 1900s did the state take off, spurring the phenomenal growth of what’s now the third-most populous state.

Henry Flagler arrived aboard the first train to Key West, southernmost point of the U.S., in 1912, marking completion of his Florida East Coast Railway linking the East Coast from north to south. In his path, he left grand hotels – the Hotel Ponce de Leon in St. Augustine, and the Breakers and Royal Poinciana in what became known as Palm Beach. Another Henry – businessman and steamship owner Henry Plant – pushed rail lines down Florida's West Coast.

With millions of visitors each year to its beaches, major amusement parks centered around Orlando and cruise ships departing from ports on both coasts, tourism is a major contributor to Florida's gross domestic product. The state’s agriculture industry is also robust, with Florida groves producing many of the country's oranges and a winter vegetable industry that makes agriculture a year-round enterprise.

Tourism, which pays a sizable share of the state’s sales tax, also has enabled Florida to remain among the states without a personal income tax – adding a lure as the nation’s leading retirement haven.

The state has 1,197 miles of coastline and a land mass of 53,630 square miles. It’s 792 miles by land from Pensacola in the far northwestern Panhandle to Key West at the end of the archipelago that stretches south of Miami, and along the way there is no natural elevation higher than 345 feet – on a ridge of the Panhandle. No state has a lower peak.

With several large cities, the state also has a sizable system of state universities and community colleges. The University of Florida in Gainesville and Florida State University in Tallahassee have been rivaled in enrollment by the University of South Florida in Tampa, University of Central Florida in Orlando, and Florida International University in Miami. Among the best known private institutions: University of Miami.

 

Busted: DeSantis' camp was told Florida's crime-reduction stats were bogus — but touted them anyway

Matthew Chapman
September 20, 2023, 5:47 PM ET



(Photo by Octavio Jones/Getty Images)


Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has made a claim that crime in the Sunshine State is at a "50-year low" under his leadership a key selling point on the presidential campaign trail. But according to NBC News, staffers at the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) told his camp that it wasn't true – and they ran with it anyway.

“The ethics of what we were reporting, we knew the numbers were bad,” said one FDLE employee. “We foot-stomped it to leadership over and over again; they did not care. They did not care.”

Multiple staffers told NBC that top officials at FDLE pressured departments to hand over numbers knowing they were incomplete, with another employee saying, “The numbers gave the governor and the [executive office of governor] what they wanted. They were looking for a particular narrative.”

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The issue stems from a recent change to Florida's crime reporting system. For decades, the state has used "summary" crime reports, meaning that a single incident with multiple crimes only reports the most serious crime. In 2021, the federal government ordered all states doing this to submit "incident-based" reports instead, which capture every crime in one incident — but several counties in Florida have not updated their systems yet and can't fully report their crime data.

Despite this, say staffers, FDLE leaders treated the numbers they did have as a comprehensive list of all crimes – knowing that it wasn't.

“The governor’s office wanted to say outright that we were at a 50-year crime low and we told department leadership, verbally and in writing, that was not accurate because of the deficiencies in the data,” said yet another staffer. “We went back and forth several times and we agreed, after being heavily pushed, to say we were trending in that direction.”

FDLE's spokeswoman Gretl Plessinger pushed back on the accusation, saying, “Florida’s crime rate is indeed at a 50-year low, and criticism about FDLE’s robust data collection methods is unfounded. Despite your assertions, no current or former employee has ever expressed concerns to FDLE leadership regarding the calculations.”

DeSantis was touted as the strongest alternative to former President Donald Trump for the 2024 nomination after he handily won re-election as governor last year, but voters and donors alike have soured on him after a series of campaign missteps, and he is trailing Trump by more than 40 points in the latest polling average.

A recent CNN poll in New Hampshire found DeSantis barely clinging to fifth place in that state, behind Trump, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.



https://www.rawstory.com/desantis-crime/

 

Hellooooo Nikki!

 

Nikki doesn't stand a chance vs Trump.

 

Fact-checking Ron DeSantis' 2023 State of the State claims about crime

Crime rate
"Florida's crime rate stands at a 50-year low."

DeSantis' talking point is accurate.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement shares crime data from local law enforcement agencies with the FBI for its Uniform Crime Reporting program. The most recent state data available is from 2021. That year, Florida had a crime rate of about 1,952 crimes per 100,000 residents — nearly a 10% decrease from 2020.

That 2021 crime rate is the lowest recorded in Florida since 1971. It's worth remembering that the quality depends on the accuracy of the information supplied to the state, and local agencies have made errors before. The COVID-19 pandemic may have contributed to the decline, but its effects are still being studied.

Hear a claim during the legislative session we should fact-check? Email us at truthometer@politifact.com.

 

Not so fast...
DeSantis Claims Florida’s Crime is at a ‘Record Low.’ But He’s Using Incomplete Data
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/06/20/desantis-florida-crime-rate-incomplete-data

"Only 49 agencies from Florida, representing less than 8% of police departments, were included in an FBI federal database last year, according to a Marshall Project analysis. This means more than 500 police departments in Florida — including most of the largest agencies, like the Miami Police Department, the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office, and the St. Petersburg Police Department — are missing from the national context. Florida’s participation rate is the lowest of any state in the country."