Trump assembles task force to crack down on D.C. crime

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Anonymous wrote:If I can carry a concealed weapon I may visit DC and spend some money more often.

Me too. Less reason to fear the roving gangs of “youths” wearing balaclavas

It's always hilarious to see the people who want to pretend they're big tough manly men are always the biggest cowards, petrified to even set foot in the big city without their emotional support gun.

Guess what, us pansy liberals live, work, and play in the city you're so scared of every day with zero fear. Who's the tough guy now?

Let's see how long you stay in DC after one of them pulls a gun on you. Most liberals have this attitude that since they are an ally, they have nothing to fear...

What's also hilarious is how cowardly conservatives think everyone else is as constantly terrified as they are.

43 years and so far so good. Statistically it'll be another 300 or so before I have to worry. If it does happen, I'll give them whatever they're asking for and again, statistically, I'll be fine. Oh no, I'll be out a phone and a wallet!

Imagine cowering in fear and spending decades living in a soulless suburban hellscape, wasting hours of your day commuting and driving endlessly to every single destination all because you're utterly petrified that somebody, sometime, might possibly take a few hundred bucks worth of consumer electronics. No thanks, I'll take decades of walkability, a 20 minute commute, and easy access to bars and restaurants.

I'm sure you'll feel just as calm and superior after having the barrel of a gun shoved in your face.

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Anonymous wrote:Their intent is to punish DC because DC is heavily Democrat-voting and because they can. They are bullies pursuing political vendettas.

Why won’t Democrats lower the crime?

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Anonymous wrote:Their intent is to punish DC because DC is heavily Democrat-voting and because they can. They are bullies pursuing political vendettas.

Why won’t Democrats lower the crime?

That would violate principles of racial equity.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I can carry a concealed weapon I may visit DC and spend some money more often.

Me too. Less reason to fear the roving gangs of “youths” wearing balaclavas

It's always hilarious to see the people who want to pretend they're big tough manly men are always the biggest cowards, petrified to even set foot in the big city without their emotional support gun.

Guess what, us pansy liberals live, work, and play in the city you're so scared of every day with zero fear. Who's the tough guy now?

Let's see how long you stay in DC after one of them pulls a gun on you. Most liberals have this attitude that since they are an ally, they have nothing to fear...

What's also hilarious is how cowardly conservatives think everyone else is as constantly terrified as they are.

43 years and so far so good. Statistically it'll be another 300 or so before I have to worry. If it does happen, I'll give them whatever they're asking for and again, statistically, I'll be fine. Oh no, I'll be out a phone and a wallet!

Imagine cowering in fear and spending decades living in a soulless suburban hellscape, wasting hours of your day commuting and driving endlessly to every single destination all because you're utterly petrified that somebody, sometime, might possibly take a few hundred bucks worth of consumer electronics. No thanks, I'll take decades of walkability, a 20 minute commute, and easy access to bars and restaurants.

You live in one of the most soulless cities in the entire country and don’t have as much local culture as Baltimore, let alone Philadelphia and New York. The sparse culture that you do have is owned and administered by the Federal Government. The borough of Brooklyn literally has more going on than the entirety of DC.

Please stop talking down to people in the suburbs who don’t want to live in a place that had 187 murders last year. If DC had New York City’s population it would have recorded over 2,100 murders. In the supposed good year for crime in DC, 2024, DC had 187 murders, no pun intended. New York had 344 and has 8.2 million people.

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Anonymous wrote:I saw an interview with the DC police commissioner who noted that the average murder suspect in DC has 11 felonies. That is absurd. Every one of those murder victims would be alive today if DC had only prosecuted and sentenced repeat violent offenders like any normal, civilized city would do. DC's focus on "equity" and "restorative justice" has been a disaster for the city - from the number of victims of violent crime to whole host of quality of life issues to a loss of tax revenue. I despise Trump, but if a change in administrations leads to a dramatic increase in the incarceration of violent men in DC I am all for it. As I think nearly everyone in the DMV is. Enough is enough. DC was a much better city ten years ago before progressives took over the criminal justice system in DC.

It’s always amusing to read takes about criminal justice in DC from those who are apparently completely ignorant of basic facts about the DC criminal justice system. The Office of the US Attorney, who is appointed by the President and is not accountable to the mayor, council, or DC electorate, prosecutes crime in DC. Issues with low rates of prosecution - so-called “no papering” - have prevailed across different administrations. In other words, find a different tree to bark up.

You’re not wrong but to pretend that Graves tenure didn’t worsen everything is an outright lie.

Not to mention the people that were crying when Jessie Liu, Trump 1’s US Atty for DC, had the audacity to prosecute repeat gun offenders in federal court where they would face stiffer penalties.