Trump Orders National Guard to Washington, D.C., and Takeover of City’s Police

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Wonder if they will ask about the crime statistics investigation in this presser?

The first thing NY Times did was point out that DC was far from the highest crime city in America and that crime in DC was at a historic low. But that was its print content, not sure what people asked in front of the Emperor in Chief.

Is it though?
DC Police Commander Suspended, Accused of Changing Statistics:
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/dc-police-commander-suspended-crime-statistics/3959566/

There are also a tremendous number of quality of life crimes and harassments that simply don’t get reported and that also don’t occur with comparable regularity in other big cities and capitals.

[Anonymous]

For a capitol city, DC is pretty embarrassing. I don't trust Trump but something should be done about exorbitant tax rates leading to terrible outcomes across the board, from education to infrastructure to crime.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wonder if they will ask about the crime statistics investigation in this presser?

The first thing NY Times did was point out that DC was far from the highest crime city in America and that crime in DC was at a historic low. But that was its print content, not sure what people asked in front of the Emperor in Chief.

Is it though?
DC Police Commander Suspended, Accused of Changing Statistics:
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/dc-police-commander-suspended-crime-statistics/3959566/

There are also a tremendous number of quality of life crimes and harassments that simply don’t get reported and that also don’t occur with comparable regularity in other big cities and capitals.

Where was your outrage when Trump brought in illegal teen modeling agency ?

Or not released Epstein files?

Or when he stole from
9/11 first responders?

DC has a low crime rate the criminals are in the WH! Why the hell are we paying to open his golf courses in Scotland?

The national debt is 37 Trillion and climbing while Americans lose jobs

[Anonymous]

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ALREADY—> 14 <— HOMICIDES in DC this MONTH, and it’s only August 11th.

Not even close

THREE. not 14. THREE.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wonder if they will ask about the crime statistics investigation in this presser?

You mean all the falsified reports and under-reporting by MPD ? They have been “cooking the books” for years to make crime appear lower than it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For a capitol city, DC is pretty embarrassing. I don't trust Trump but something should be done about exorbitant tax rates leading to terrible outcomes across the board, from education to infrastructure to crime.

What Ward do you live in?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For a capitol city, DC is pretty embarrassing. I don't trust Trump but something should be done about exorbitant tax rates leading to terrible outcomes across the board, from education to infrastructure to crime.

Clearly someone didnt live here in the 80's, when U St and H St was a war zone and Mayor Barry was in LA for the Redskin Superbowl while 20 inches of snow kept the roads covered for ober a week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For a capitol city, DC is pretty embarrassing. I don't trust Trump but something should be done about exorbitant tax rates leading to terrible outcomes across the board, from education to infrastructure to crime.

Clearly someone didnt live here in the 80's, when U St and H St was a war zone and Mayor Barry was in LA for the Redskin Superbowl while 20 inches of snow kept the roads covered for ober a week.

That doesn't mean conditions are now acceptable. Barry set a very low bar.

[Anonymous]

LOL! I wonder how much this literal walk in the park costs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:LOL! I wonder how much this literal walk in the park costs.

Hilarious! Are they at least picking up trash? How about seeing how much soft serve costs?

[Anonymous]

Amazing how they can deploy national guard, but they couldn't on J6.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
ALREADY—> 14 <— HOMICIDES in DC this MONTH, and it’s only August 11th.

Not even close

THREE. not 14. THREE.

Republicans are lying POSs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Amazing how they can deploy national guard, but they couldn't on J6.

“Amazing” is one word for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For a capitol city, DC is pretty embarrassing. I don't trust Trump but something should be done about exorbitant tax rates leading to terrible outcomes across the board, from education to infrastructure to crime.

People.

Can we please get this right.

DC is the capital city. The Capitol is a building with a dome.

Carry on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in NYC. Despite what the Trump-ites will tell you, it's a fairly safe city, especially if you stay out of certain high crime areas.

Recently, the most publicized and scariest crimes are those taking place in the subways. This started during the pandemic when ridership went way down and the homeless moved in. (Some of the homeless who did are somewhat mentally competent and realized that they were actually less likely to get covid living in the subways than in the shelters.) There was room for them to stretch out in the subway and platforms with fewer riders.

As conditions worsened in the subways, fewer people were willing to ride them. And the fewer people who rode them, the more dangerous it became to ride them. Of course, some crime occurs during rush hours, but most violent crime occurs when there are few people around.

So, congestion pricing for vehicular traffic was a huge win. It raises money to fix the subways and buses--which is badly needed because revenue was way down during covid and is still down vs pre-pandemic. Less revenue means less money for maintenance. It meant more people would take the subways and that would mean less violent crime.

But of course, Trump wants to stop congestion pricing--presumably because the ex-urbanites who do hour plus commutes into the City are more likely to vote for him than NYC residents. This means less money to maintain the subways and as they get dirtier, the rat population increasebs. Ridership goes down; there's more crime and then the stupid Trumpites say Gotham is a horrible place and needs Trump to save it.

Add to that the fact that the Trump Supreme Court declared NYC's gun laws unconstitutional and forced the City to water them down. But , of course, it's the Democrats' "liberal" policies that are causing crime--yeah, right.

best quote of the day "I live in NYC. Despite what the Trump-ites will tell you, it's a fairly safe city, especially if you stay out of certain high crime areas."

LOL there should be no "high crime areas."