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Anonymous wrote:Why are people so hell bent on painting
the District in such a negative light? What is to be gained?

What is to be gained by not confronting the rising crime head on?

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, all the Murdoch outlets are pushing this story.

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

Which part of the statistics is disinformation?

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.

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!

Anonymous wrote:Why are people so hell bent on painting
the District in such a negative light? What is to be gained?

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Anonymous wrote:The story says one issue specific to DC is that our attorney general is elected, not appointed, and that our attorney general refuses to prosecute the vast majority of arrests made by the cops

I’m not bothering to click, but if that’s the difference, an editor needs to be fired. The DC Attorney general is not allowed to prosecute felonies

It doesn't say this. It says we have an appointed USAO rather than an elected DA.

Exactly. And that is true.

However it is also true that our elected AG, who is supposed to prosecute most juvenile crime, seems to be failing effectively do so. So, in that respect, being elected does not seem to have moved the needle.

I mean yes, he is appointed by Biden, and obviously the memo these appointees are getting in the last few years are to push a progressive criminal justice reform agenda in the wake of George Floyd.

But also yes Fox News is a right wing mouthpiece and are running this sorry probably to sent democrats on crime.

So yes everyone is right. It’s sad that crime is rising. It’s sad that progressive criminal justice policies seem to let criminals know they have a free pass because all they’ll get is restorative justice. It’s sad that looking up violent criminals works better. Yeah I get we need to attack the root causes of poverty and fund wrap around services and all that sht, but we also neee to be strict on crime.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, all the Murdoch outlets are pushing this story.

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

Which part of the statistics is disinformation?

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.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, all the Murdoch outlets are pushing this story.

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

Which part of the statistics is disinformation?

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.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, all the Murdoch outlets are pushing this story.

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

Which part of the statistics is disinformation?

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.

Anonymous wrote:A coming ballot initiative that would allow independent voters to vote in primaries would help. That would help break the grip the far left has on city council.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, all the Murdoch outlets are pushing this story.

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

Which part of the statistics is disinformation?

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.

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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.

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.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, all the Murdoch outlets are pushing this story.

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

Which part of the statistics is disinformation?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The story says one issue specific to DC is that our attorney general is elected, not appointed, and that our attorney general refuses to prosecute the vast majority of arrests made by the cops

I’m not bothering to click, but if that’s the difference, an editor needs to be fired. The DC Attorney general is not allowed to prosecute felonies

It doesn't say this. It says we have an appointed USAO rather than an elected DA.

Exactly. And that is true.

However it is also true that our elected AG, who is supposed to prosecute most juvenile crime, seems to be failing effectively do so. So, in that respect, being elected does not seem to have moved the needle.

I mean yes, he is appointed by Biden, and obviously the memo these appointees are getting in the last few years are to push a progressive criminal justice reform agenda in the wake of George Floyd.

But also yes Fox News is a right wing mouthpiece and are running this sorry probably to sent democrats on crime.

So yes everyone is right. It’s sad that crime is rising. It’s sad that progressive criminal justice policies seem to let criminals know they have a free pass because all they’ll get is restorative justice. It’s sad that looking up violent criminals works better. Yeah I get we need to attack the root causes of poverty and fund wrap around services and all that sht, but we also neee to be strict on crime.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The story says one issue specific to DC is that our attorney general is elected, not appointed, and that our attorney general refuses to prosecute the vast majority of arrests made by the cops

I’m not bothering to click, but if that’s the difference, an editor needs to be fired. The DC Attorney general is not allowed to prosecute felonies

It doesn't say this. It says we have an appointed USAO rather than an elected DA.

Exactly. And that is true.

However it is also true that our elected AG, who is supposed to prosecute most juvenile crime, seems to be failing effectively do so. So, in that respect, being elected does not seem to have moved the needle.