Big story in WSJ on violent crime in DC

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Anonymous wrote: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

can you please post the raw data of AG prosecutions vs AG denial of prosecutions? Or let me know where to get it for free? Thx.

I don’t think anyone disputes the AG declines to prosecute 67 percent of arrests

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, all the Murdoch outlets are pushing this story.

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

Which part of the statistics is disinformation?

The emphasis of the coverage is the issue. No one said these aren’t important issues, they’re just really not the most urgent ones. So the wall-to-wall coverage like they’re crises or something is what’s objectionable.

You are right, DEI funding and programs are more urgent. As is the funding and building of bike lanes - urgent!!! Crime - meh. It’s okay kids are having their shoes stolen in a public library. Not urgent!

Oh yeah if one ward 3 white dude on a bike gets hit on Connecticut avenue we have to spend billions of dollars completely reworking our transportation system and talk about it endlessly.

But if murders are up 40 percent, robberies are up 70 percent, car thefts have more than doubled, teenagers are looting drug stores — it’s oh crime is not that big of deal, why are you obsessed?

Maybe we could find a white cyclist from Tenleytown who was a victim of a violent crime? Then people would care?

I’m not sure why you presume that you are the only one who does care? Would you prefer that Ward 3 had elected the guy deploying the dog whistle over the voucher recipients? Would that convince you that they care more? And what the hell does this have to do with cycling?

Our government doesn’t give a shit about crime (it would be sad if they were actually trying to reduce crime and these were the results). But bike lanes? They are happy to talk about that all day long. You know there was a cyclist killed several years ago, right?

When the mayor picks the head of diversity training to run the entire police force, it’s a pretty good sign that putting bad guys in prison is not the top priority

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Anonymous wrote: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

can you please post the raw data of AG prosecutions vs AG denial of prosecutions? Or let me know where to get it for free? Thx.

I don’t think anyone disputes the AG declines to prosecute 67 percent of arrests

Exactly. Democrats protect criminals and attack law-abiding Americans.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, all the Murdoch outlets are pushing this story.

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.

+1

I rarely take the "facts" as presented by the Murdoch empire as facts. The fact is that Murdoch writers and presenters are not really journalists.

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This DC crime wave leads me to two conclusions:

1. The police have not been sufficiently defunded.

2. We need to continue voting for progressives.

Stay the course!

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Anonymous wrote:This DC crime wave leads me to two conclusions:

1. The police have not been sufficiently defunded.

2. We need to continue voting for progressives.

Stay the course!

Actually, I propose that we hire everyone in DC as a violence interrupter. DC would be a crime-free utopia.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, all the Murdoch outlets are pushing this story.

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.

+1

I rarely take the "facts" as presented by the Murdoch empire as facts. The fact is that Murdoch writers and presenters are not really journalists.

It works both ways - CNN and MSNBC have an agenda too. Very hard to get unbiased info these days.

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The crime wave and the do not prosecute any crimes comes from Trump Derangement Syndrome. What this is is the overwhelming desire to do EVERYTHING opposite of Trump. For instance. Trump supports locking violent criminals up. So democrats automatically want the opposite.

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Anonymous wrote:This DC crime wave leads me to two conclusions:

1. The police have not been sufficiently defunded.

2. We need to continue voting for progressives.

Stay the course!

DC “Progressives” won’t rest until the crime rates in the various DC wards converge. That’s their view of what “equity” and “inclusion” mean.

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Anonymous wrote:I want bike lands and a safe city. I think most dc voters share this vision.

This is what is preventing commuters from outside of DC and that is what we need. Bike and bus lanes are the death of DC.

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Anonymous wrote:The crime wave and the do not prosecute any crimes comes from Trump Derangement Syndrome. What this is is the overwhelming desire to do EVERYTHING opposite of Trump. For instance. Trump supports locking violent criminals up. So democrats automatically want the opposite.

This is it. Why else would Democrats essentially ignore skyrocketing crime — in the biggest cities across America?

The “defund the police” demands of Democrats hurt poor people more than anyone else.

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Right Proper is leaving Shaw because the crime is bananas

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, all the Murdoch outlets are pushing this story.

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.

+1

I rarely take the "facts" as presented by the Murdoch empire as facts. The fact is that Murdoch writers and presenters are not really journalists.

Do you take a gun to the face and a brick to the head as facts? I do.

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I hear Duterte is looking for a job. I’d vote for him.

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Anonymous wrote:You are off the rails dude. Seriously. It was assault and unregistered weapon and he has no priors. Not that it was egregious but this is not the case I would pull as an example of soft on crime.

Perfect example for why crime is so bad in this city now. Guy walks into a bar, completely unprovoked pulls a gun on the owner while he's sitting with his 4 year old son, says he's going to end him, starts attacking him, gets the gun knocked out of his hand and tries to grab it again, leaves.

And thinking he should have gotten more than 8 months means you're "off the rails" to some people here.

+1 It's hard for me to believe that anyone thinks ok for that guy to be walking freely among us.

Many do, esp DC Justice Lab and those they fund, including those on the DC Council.