Big story in WSJ on violent crime in DC
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Notes DC is a huge outlier compared to other big cities
“The district has had 216 homicides this year, 38 percent more than at this point in 2022” “By contrast, killings are down this year in big cities from coast to coast: by 24 percent in Los Angeles, 19 percent in Houston, 18 percent in Philadelphia, 12 percent in Chicago and 11 percent in New York City.” Owners of Right Proper tell WSJ theyre leaving Shaw because the crime is out of hand |
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| I wonder if this will affect development. I would not be inclined to invest here at the moment. |
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| Yeah, all the Murdoch outlets are pushing this story. |
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And I bet you are dismissing the truth of the problem because you don't like the messenger. Says more about your bias than theirs. |
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Way to lose any argument when that’s all you have. Hope you stay safe. |
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+1 |
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Do you dispute the data? |
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Who publishes the facts in a story is irrelevant. https://www.wsj.com/us-news/violent-crime-is-surging-in-d-c-this-year-we-just-stood-there-and-screamed-380f3c69 Perps could become violent if stores try to stop retail theft. If stores go to containment methods who stops violence against shoppers outside the store? Correlation between massive retail theft now PC referred to as shrinkage and DC regs relaxing on street vendors. https://nextcity.org/features/washington-dc-street-vendor-regulations-reforms A WSJ comment was about weed. Got off a metro and then walked through so many getting high that 10 minutes later smebody asked me if I had been smoking-"please don't on our premises". |
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| The story says one issue specific to DC is that our attorney general is elected, not appointed, and that our attorney general refuses to prosecute the vast majority of arrests made by the cops |
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It isn’t just the Murdoch companies. It’s the entire right-wing media conspiracy Hillary spoke accurately about back in the 1990s. It’s actually amazing how predictable it is. What wedge issues are they going to blow out of proportion and then cry bias that the professional news media isn’t following suit? It’s a little like the Daily Wire’s bizarre fascination with culture war stories about Northern Virginia. The right wing media complex is hell-bent on disinformation |
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Neither DC crime, nor the border, nor inflation are real issues. |
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| DC residents have only themselves to blame. |
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Do you mean the right wing conspiracy of which HRC spoke when Bill was denying "his contacts" with Monica Lewinsky? |
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Of course, noted in text of article. Free link to article in Reddit link above. Could not post archive link here directly due to filters. |