Montgomery County - 20% Rise in Murders in 2025

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The most staggering stat is that in 2021 Montgomery County had 36 murders while Arlington had 0. Yes, zero. It was Montgomery County’s worse year for homicides in 10 years.

Same pandemic, but totally different Covid policies in jurisdictions that were both governed exclusively by Dems presumably had at least something to do with this disparity.

It’s just geography. We’re next to DC and PG. you have to cross the river to get to Arlington

This is the answer.

Arlington is 36 mi.² locked in one side by a river, Montgomery is 500 square miles locked on 2 sides by DC and PG.

Crime is down everywhere. Crime is even down in Silver Spring, Maryland.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do wish the murder rate in MoCo (specifically in silver spring, of the usual demographics) skyrockets so Virginians don’t come bother me in Bethesda. Keep thinking it’s dangerous please, I don’t need your striverism

What makes you any different acting like Silver Spring is so bad?

They don’t think it’s bad. They said they wish it went up crime rate and Silver Spring has plummeted over the last few years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The most staggering stat is that in 2021 Montgomery County had 36 murders while Arlington had 0. Yes, zero. It was Montgomery County’s worse year for homicides in 10 years.

Same pandemic, but totally different Covid policies in jurisdictions that were both governed exclusively by Dems presumably had at least something to do with this disparity.

It’s just geography. We’re next to DC and PG. you have to cross the river to get to Arlington

This is the answer.

Arlington is 36 mi.² locked in one side by a river, Montgomery is 500 square miles locked on 2 sides by DC and PG.

Crime is down everywhere. Crime is even down in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Was there a land bridge in the 1990s between DC in Arlington? Is that why Arlington had a murder rate that was double Montgomery County’s between 1990-1995?

And I guess that land bridge disintegrated at some point since then because Montgomery County now has a murder rate that’s 4x higher than Arlington’s from 2020-2025.

This river theory solves everything!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bill Clinton, Obama, Hillary Clinton and Biden were all 100% behind this sentiment.

While ICE agents under this administration have engaged in some very questionable conduct, their rate of removal operations is nowhere near what occurred under President Obama, who remains very highly regarded by most Democrats and left-leaning moderates.