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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

You want to be taxed the same as Bergen County, NJ?[/quote]

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? [/quote]

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, [/quote]

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? [/quote]

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