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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]Yeah, all the Murdoch outlets are pushing this story. [/quote]

It isn’t just the Murdoch companies. It’s the entire right-wing media conspiracy Hillary spoke accurately about back in the 1990s.

It’s actually amazing how predictable it is. What wedge issues are they going to blow out of proportion and then cry bias that the professional news media isn’t following suit?

It’s a little like the Daily Wire’s bizarre fascination with culture war stories about Northern Virginia. The right wing media complex is hell-bent on disinformation [/quote]

Which part of the statistics is disinformation?[/quote]

The emphasis of the coverage is the issue. No one said these aren’t important issues, they’re just really not the most urgent ones. So the wall-to-wall coverage like they’re crises or something is what’s objectionable. [/quote]

You are right, DEI funding and programs are more urgent.  As is the funding and building of bike lanes - urgent!!!  Crime - meh.  It’s okay kids are having their shoes stolen in a public library.  Not urgent![/quote]

Oh yeah if one ward 3 white dude on a bike gets hit on Connecticut avenue we have to spend billions of dollars completely reworking our transportation system and talk about it endlessly.

But if murders are up 40 percent, robberies are up 70 percent, car thefts have more than doubled, teenagers are looting drug stores — it’s oh crime is not that big of deal, why are you obsessed?[/quote]

Maybe we could find a white cyclist from Tenleytown who was a victim of a violent crime? Then people would care?[/quote]

I’m not sure why you presume that you are the only one who does care? Would you prefer that Ward 3 had elected the guy deploying the dog whistle over the voucher recipients? Would that convince you that they care more? And what the hell does this have to do with cycling?[/quote]

Our government doesn’t give a shit about crime (it would be sad if they were actually trying to reduce crime and these were the results). But bike lanes? They are happy to talk about that all day long. You know there was a cyclist killed several years ago, right?[/quote]

[b]When the mayor picks the head of diversity training to run the entire police force[/b], it’s a pretty good sign that putting bad guys in prison is not the top priority[/quote]

+1  And she has very little actual experience running a large urban police force. All this would read like satire if we didn't actually live here.[/quote]

She is from the PARK POLICE.

My understanding is that many senior officers in MPD are about to hit retirement. None were willing to take on chief job. I think Bowser thought that her ties to churches were a plus somehow re: juveniles. I don't follow that line of thinking, but it seems to be something they are trying to emphasize. [/quote]

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