Big story in WSJ on violent crime in DC

[Anonymous]

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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?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Neither DC crime, nor the border, nor inflation are real issues.

Great trolling!

[Anonymous]

Seems telling that people are more upset about the messenger than the message

[Anonymous]

The New York Times has also written about how crime is way down in big cities except DC

[Anonymous]

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

You or the reporter has missed a nuance, DC has a federally appointed USA who prosecutes adult and some juv crime, judges are also appointed and courts are federally funded. Since 2017, so under 3 different presidential admin appointees, the "no paper" rate has been increasing, topping out at 67%. The constant in that time has been the career prosecutors, there have been several USAs over that span.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/04/politics/black-prosecutors-dc-gun-cases/index.html
Resources are also an issue, attorneys are detailed from other fed agencies to help, many with no criminal prosecution experience.

DC also has an elected AG, under the Home Rule Act. He prosecutes, or doesn't, most juvenile crime.

[Anonymous]

It's really peak DC to try to write off actual data because the publication telling you about it is right-leaning. It's so incredibly lazy, and speaks volumes about our voters who got us into this mess.

[Anonymous]

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

I’m not bothering to click, but if that’s the difference, an editor needs to be fired. The DC Attorney general is not allowed to prosecute felonies

[Anonymous]

A gang of teens ransacked the CVS in Columbia heights the other day. Crazy shit like that is becoming normalized here

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

I’m not bothering to click, but if that’s the difference, an editor needs to be fired. The DC Attorney general is not allowed to prosecute felonies

But our AG prosecutes all juvenile crime, so it's a pretty important issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

I’m not bothering to click, but if that’s the difference, an editor needs to be fired. The DC Attorney general is not allowed to prosecute felonies

It doesn't say this. It says we have an appointed USAO rather than an elected DA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A gang of teens ransacked the CVS in Columbia heights the other day. Crazy shit like that is becoming normalized here

The next complaint will be about businesses not wanting to operate in high crime areas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

I agree that right wing media exacerbates wedge issues.

But as a dc resident, a reader of crime stats, and basically someone who lives where the crime is happening, I wish you could put aside your own bias on this issue.

Can you elaborate how you lean? For example , Are you broadly in favor of restorative Justice over incarceration? Do you deny crime is rising? Even the Mexican embassy warned its citizens about massive increases in crime and they’re not right wing. I mean Wapo reports on it. It is happening. You just seem to want to deny it because maybe it puts a dent in your views of progressive criminal justice reform efforts, which tend to be lenient.

[Anonymous]

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

I hope it doesn't actually say that. Maryland has an elected attorney general. Virginia has an elected attorney general. In fact, everyone has an elected attorney general except Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Tennessee, Wyoming, American Samoa, Puerto Rico, and US Virgin Islands.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

I’m not bothering to click, but if that’s the difference, an editor needs to be fired. The DC Attorney general is not allowed to prosecute felonies

It doesn't say this. It says we have an appointed USAO rather than an elected DA.

Exactly. And that is true.

However it is also true that our elected AG, who is supposed to prosecute most juvenile crime, seems to be failing effectively do so. So, in that respect, being elected does not seem to have moved the needle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:


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


I agree that right wing media exacerbates wedge issues.

But as a dc resident, a reader of crime stats, and basically someone who lives where the crime is happening, I wish you could put aside your own bias on this issue.

Can you elaborate how you lean? For example , Are you broadly in favor of restorative Justice over incarceration? Do you deny crime is rising? Even the Mexican embassy warned its citizens about massive increases in crime and they’re not right wing. I mean Wapo reports on it. It is happening. You just seem to want to deny it because maybe it puts a dent in your views of progressive criminal justice reform efforts, which tend to be lenient.

Most of DC is blue. But most of DC is not deeply deeply far left. But our polarized political system, which has resulted in the red parts of the country electing wing-nuts like Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor-Greene and Lauren Boebert, has resulted in DC being afflicted at the other end of the spectrum with Charles Allen, Brianne Nadeau and Brian Schwalb, who are hell-bent on the implementation of criminal justice policies which endanger us all.