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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]First, every murder is tragic and I don't mew  to downplay how horrible that is.

But the percentage jump is unnecessarily misleading because the numbers are so low.

And if you dig into them more, many are domestic violence. Men killing their mothers, their wives, etc. That doesn't make it less disturbing. But it's not stranger violence or gang violence or drug dealer violence.

I'm not saying there isn't more to be done, but it's not really worth sounding an alarm.  I think a helpful measure would be looking at non fatal shootings too. And aggravated assaults. I believe both were down significantly for 2025.

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I think it’s worth sounding an alarm when Montgomery County is consistently more dangerous than its counterparts in DC suburbs with similar demographics.

Montgomery County’s most dangerous year was 2021, where 35 murders were recorded. In Fairfax, which is diverse and has as many people and is deep blue, there were 21 murders that year. In Arlington there were 0. Yes, zero!

What can we learn from these Democrat politicians in these diverse, deep blue suburbs that we can bring to Montgomery County? There has to be something to learn from a county that has 244,000 people like Arlington and records 0 murders in a year when we had 35. To think otherwise is pure hubris and ignorance.

What Democrat politicians should I vote for to reverse this trend and make the county safer and more in line with these places?[/quote]

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