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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There were five shootings Friday night! Trump’s crime fighters aren’t doing a good job. Let MPD do what they were doing before. Crime was coming down. Although as unemployment goes up and the economy gets worse, crime will increase.[/quote]

BUT BUT BUT some jerkoff said Dump's police state is successfully lowering violent crime! Say it ain't so![/quote]

On August 11 there were 100 murders in 2025. As of September 2 there were 104. That’s an objectively big difference in the murder rate. [/quote]

Exactly.   Can’t argue with positive results.

Was downtown at Nationals game and no gang bangers in site, but saw NG 5 times, with weapons, and they were really nice, smiled and said hello.  They seemed to be having a good time also.

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If you think that is some kind of hard data you’re a big idiot. NG is patrolling safe areas to make a show of force that Trump controls us. It is disgusting and I feel violated and angry every time I see their ugly camo and absurd body armor. [/quote]

Hard data is that there have been 4 murders since August 12, when the NG came in, in a city that was averaging more than 14 murders per month this year.

What hard data do you have? [/quote]

I know enough to know that one month isn’t a good comparator. [/quote]

How about 4 more months until the end of the year? If there are 4-8 murders a month instead of the 14/month we had from January to July will you admit it works? How long do you need? [/quote]

DP butting in. Even if it works, how is it sustainable? Deploying the NG in DC costs $1 million a day. If they are the answer to DC‘s crime problems, please explain how their presence is sustainable. [/quote]

They can never answer this one. And they want to expand this price tag to other cities.

Waiting periods for gun purchases alone can drop gun deaths by 17%. Coupled with other laws used by other states, even more.

But somehow they are not willing to 'pay' that price no matter how many people and children it saves. [/quote]

DC has some of the strictest gun laws in the US. 10 day waiting period. They actually tried to ban handguns in 2007 and a federal court overruled it. We still have a semiautomatic and assault style weapons ban.

Doesn’t make a difference because surprise surprise criminals aren’t legally purchasing firearms, they’re either purchased illegally or they use the ghost gun kits [/quote]

They go to more permissive states to buy guns. [/quote]

DC doesn't prosecute gun crimes. You can have the toughest laws in the nation, but if prosecutors aren't prosecuting and judges aren't judging, the laws are worthless. [/quote]

So, why haven’t the Feds done better by DC?  In DC, aren’t the judges and the prosecutors all Federal positions?  
Sorting that out doesn’t have the same cachet as bringing in the military to harass the imagined hell hole, I guess. [/quote]

I have read some things that they are staffing up USAO. I hate Trump, but would admit this is a good thing along with better prosecution for violent offenses. But the military occupation just looks like q waste, honestly and it is not a realistic, sustainable solution. Criminals are holding back most likely because of fearing DC is no longer playing on the prosecution end, so shootings are lower in high crime areas like SE and NE. Not because of rando National Guard picking up trash on the mall. [/quote]

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