Jackson crime: Barbour says it harms state

The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 5/24/7

“Jackson is important to everybody in Mississippi,” Barbour told the Editorial Board. And Jackson’s crime problem “is harmful to the whole state.”

Barbour is hesitant to say that Jackson should have more state money to control crime.

It’s a good argument, he said, that since the city hosts the state government, it should have more state resources.