Montgomery County - 20% Rise in Murders in 2025

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Trump needs to take notice and send in the national guard and ICE.

Obama had ICE work directly with major crime units. Perhaps a better president would do the same again some day,

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Trump needs to take notice and send in the national guard and ICE.

National Guard does nothing. And ICE is here. 80% of ICE detentions have been people with no prior criminal record.

So the 20% who are criminals don’t count? I don’t understand your point. I want rapists and armed felons deported if they shouldn’t be here in the first place and I’ve never voted Republican in my life.

The problem is that this tough on illegal immigrant criminals is the mainstream position for nationwide Democrats and has been for some time, but is somehow viewed as right wing by a lot of the wackos who are in Montgomery County politics. Bill Clinton, Obama, Hillary Clinton and Biden were all 100% behind this sentiment.

No, the 20% are the ones that the feds have always gone after. The other 60% are the ones that ICE now detains to meet quotas alone.

So all the illegal immigrants Obama deported were all violent criminals? Even you don’t believe that.

Obama was so good at his job and foreign relations that he helped countries and more people voluntarily moved from the US to Mexico than the other way around,

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bergen County NJ has 988,000 people, is right across from New York City, and recorded 0 murders in 2025. The median HHI in Bergen County is $4,000 LESS than Montgomery County.

We need to do better.

You want to be taxed the same as Bergen County, NJ?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Bergen County NJ has 988,000 people, is right across from New York City, and recorded 0 murders in 2025. The median HHI in Bergen County is $4,000 LESS than Montgomery County.

We need to do better.

You want to be taxed the same as Bergen County, NJ?

Help explain how Arlington has 4 murders in 3 years compared to Montgomery County’s 65. There aren’t a bunch of rich white people up and down Columbia Pike and along Four Mile Run Drive. Taxes are low and gun laws are more lax. What are Dems doing there that’s keeping the murder rate so low?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For additional context in 1995 PG had 147 murders, DC had 320, and Montgomery County had 20. To be just as dangerous, if not 20% more dangerous, as it was at the height of the crack epidemic is not good. Especially when PG’s and DC’s murder stats are a fraction of what they were then.

Montgomery County’s population in 1995 was about 800,000. It’s about 1.1 million now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For additional context in 1995 PG had 147 murders, DC had 320, and Montgomery County had 20. To be just as dangerous, if not 20% more dangerous, as it was at the height of the crack epidemic is not good. Especially when PG’s and DC’s murder stats are a fraction of what they were then.

Also 1995 was not the height of the crack epidemic.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Bergen County NJ has 988,000 people, is right across from New York City, and recorded 0 murders in 2025. The median HHI in Bergen County is $4,000 LESS than Montgomery County.

We need to do better.

You want to be taxed the same as Bergen County, NJ?

Help explain how Arlington has 4 murders in 3 years compared to Montgomery County’s 65. There aren’t a bunch of rich white people up and down Columbia Pike and along Four Mile Run Drive. Taxes are low and gun laws are more lax. What are Dems doing there that’s keeping the murder rate so low?

Because Arlington is 1/6 the size… Montgomery county has areas the size of Arlington with 4 or less murders in 3 years.

Potomac, darnestown, olney, Cloverly,

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Bergen County NJ has 988,000 people, is right across from New York City, and recorded 0 murders in 2025. The median HHI in Bergen County is $4,000 LESS than Montgomery County.

We need to do better.

You want to be taxed the same as Bergen County, NJ?

Help explain how Arlington has 4 murders in 3 years compared to Montgomery County’s 65. There aren’t a bunch of rich white people up and down Columbia Pike and along Four Mile Run Drive. Taxes are low and gun laws are more lax. What are Dems doing there that’s keeping the murder rate so low?

Because Arlington is 1/6 the size… Montgomery county has areas the size of Arlington with 4 or less murders in 3 years.

Potomac, darnestown, olney, Cloverly,

You judge murder rates by population size and Arlington has nearly 1/4 the population of Montgomery County (244,000 vs 1.076 million). Even if you multiplied Arlington’s murders by 4 to account for the population difference we’re still at 16 for Arlington from 2023-2025 and 65 murders for Montgomery County.

And your argument doesn’t hold water for Fairfax either, which has a lot of rural areas as well. Fairfax had 43 murders from 2023-2025 and has 1.17 million people, 100,000 more than Montgomery County. During this same period Montgomery County had 65 murders, which is a 40 percent higher murder rate without even factoring in Montgomery County’s larger population.

Fairfax County is run almost exclusively by Dems. They have less taxes. They have looser gun laws. Why do they have far less murders and what Dem politicians can we elect in Montgomery County that will give us the kind of public safety outcome Fairfax has?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For additional context in 1995 PG had 147 murders, DC had 320, and Montgomery County had 20. To be just as dangerous, if not 20% more dangerous, as it was at the height of the crack epidemic is not good. Especially when PG’s and DC’s murder stats are a fraction of what they were then.

Also 1995 was not the height of the crack epidemic.

Should we mark that year at 1991, when DC recorded 490 murders while Montgomery County recorded 28 murders? That 28 murder figure in 1991 is just 4 murders shy of last year’s total for murders even though DC is a MUCH safer city now by any metric. This should trouble everyone, but it is NBD for some reason.

https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/ROA-Times/issues/1993/rt9312/931220/12200022.htm

[Anonymous]

Jawando has a criminal reform plan to turn Montgomery County into PG County

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For additional context in 1995 PG had 147 murders, DC had 320, and Montgomery County had 20. To be just as dangerous, if not 20% more dangerous, as it was at the height of the crack epidemic is not good. Especially when PG’s and DC’s murder stats are a fraction of what they were then.

Also 1995 was not the height of the crack epidemic.

Should we mark that year at 1991, when DC recorded 490 murders while Montgomery County recorded 28 murders? That 28 murder figure in 1991 is just 4 murders shy of last year’s total for murders even though DC is a MUCH safer city now by any metric. This should trouble everyone, but it is NBD for some reason.

https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/ROA-Times/issues/1993/rt9312/931220/12200022.htm

Moreover, in 1991 there were 10 murders in Arlington and in 1995 there were 15 murders in Arlington. Between 2023-2025 there were a total of 4 murders in Arlington.

Meanwhile, Montgomery County had 20
murders in 1991 and 28 murders in 1995. Between 2023-2025 there were 65 murders in Montgomery County.

To me, this paints a stark picture about local political choices and the effects that policy differences have on the trajectory of a county. We need to do better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For additional context in 1995 PG had 147 murders, DC had 320, and Montgomery County had 20. To be just as dangerous, if not 20% more dangerous, as it was at the height of the crack epidemic is not good. Especially when PG’s and DC’s murder stats are a fraction of what they were then.

Also 1995 was not the height of the crack epidemic.

Should we mark that year at 1991, when DC recorded 490 murders while Montgomery County recorded 28 murders? That 28 murder figure in 1991 is just 4 murders shy of last year’s total for murders even though DC is a MUCH safer city now by any metric. This should trouble everyone, but it is NBD for some reason.

https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/ROA-Times/issues/1993/rt9312/931220/12200022.htm

Moreover, in 1991 there were 10 murders in Arlington and in 1995 there were 15 murders in Arlington. Between 2023-2025 there were a total of 4 murders in Arlington.

Meanwhile, Montgomery County had 20
murders in 1991 and 28 murders in 1995. Between 2023-2025 there were 65 murders in Montgomery County.

To me, this paints a stark picture about local political choices and the effects that policy differences have on the trajectory of a county. We need to do better.

If you adjusted for population size in 1991 and 1995 to accurately compare the murder rate, Arlington would have had more than double the murder rate of Montgomery County back then. Arlington had around 180,000 people, while Montgomery County had more than 800,000 people during the 90s.

Local political decisions matter.

[Anonymous]

Didn’t our diversity went up by 20% too?

[Anonymous]

Here are the press releases regarding all murders:

https://www2.montgomerycountymd.gov/mcgportalapps/Press_Police_Filter.aspx?cat=homicide&id=47

I looked through some of them, and of the crimes that had been solved, they were not random -- seemed to be one family member shooting another, two people who knew each other getting into a fight, etc. I'm not even sure how to go about preventing stuff like that. But perhaps the PPs who think this is about "political choices" have some ideas.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Bergen County NJ has 988,000 people, is right across from New York City, and recorded 0 murders in 2025. The median HHI in Bergen County is $4,000 LESS than Montgomery County.

We need to do better.

You want to be taxed the same as Bergen County, NJ?

Help explain how Arlington has 4 murders in 3 years compared to Montgomery County’s 65. There aren’t a bunch of rich white people up and down Columbia Pike and along Four Mile Run Drive. Taxes are low and gun laws are more lax. What are Dems doing there that’s keeping the murder rate so low?

Because Arlington is 1/6 the size… Montgomery county has areas the size of Arlington with 4 or less murders in 3 years.

Potomac, darnestown, olney, Cloverly,

You judge murder rates by population size and Arlington has nearly 1/4 the population of Montgomery County (244,000 vs 1.076 million). Even if you multiplied Arlington’s murders by 4 to account for the population difference we’re still at 16 for Arlington from 2023-2025 and 65 murders for Montgomery County.

And your argument doesn’t hold water for Fairfax either, which has a lot of rural areas as well. Fairfax had 43 murders from 2023-2025 and has 1.17 million people, 100,000 more than Montgomery County. During this same period Montgomery County had 65 murders, which is a 40 percent higher murder rate without even factoring in Montgomery County’s larger population.

Fairfax County is run almost exclusively by Dems. They have less taxes. They have looser gun laws. Why do they have far less murders and what Dem politicians can we elect in Montgomery County that will give us the kind of public safety outcome Fairfax has?

Every time you lose an argument you find another county to discuss.

NJ -> Arlington -> Fairfax … what next?