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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

I agree that right wing media exacerbates wedge issues.

But as a dc resident, a reader of crime stats, and basically someone who lives where the crime is happening, I wish you could put aside your own bias on this issue.

Can you elaborate how you lean? For example , Are you broadly in favor of restorative Justice over incarceration? Do you deny crime is rising? Even the Mexican embassy warned its citizens about massive increases in crime and they’re not right wing. I mean Wapo reports on it. It is happening. You just seem to want to deny it because maybe it puts a dent in your views of progressive criminal justice reform efforts, which tend to be lenient.[/quote]

Most of DC is blue.  But most of DC is not deeply deeply far left.  But our polarized political system, which has resulted in the red parts of the country electing wing-nuts like Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor-Greene and Lauren Boebert, has resulted in DC being afflicted at the other end of the spectrum with Charles Allen, Brianne Nadeau and Brian Schwalb, who are hell-bent on the implementation of criminal justice policies which endanger us all.  [/quote]

You forgot to list the Mayor - the city's Chief Executive, who runs the Police Department and sets policies in dozens of agencies - among those who have failed in their attempts to reduce crime.   Letting our elected leaders off the hook for their failures is one of the reasons why we have this problem.[/quote]

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