Crime drops in Washington DC
Who would have thought?
According to the union, which represents the Metropolitan Police Department’s 3,000 personnel, carjackings are down 83% since federal control was enacted, while robberies dropped 46%.
Violent crime fell 22% in the seven days since federal law enforcement began patrolling D.C.’s streets, and car theft came down 21%. Assault with a deadly weapon and property crime are also each down 6%.
“While federal assistance gives us a boost, we must repeal the misguided Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Act in order to make these changes permanent,” the union wrote on X, Monday morning.
It’s not a mystery that cracking down on criminals might actually reduce crime. But Democrats seem to think that shouldn’t be the way.
The thing about crime rates, though – rising or falling – is that they are statistics, and statistics depend on how things are reported and defined. We all know they can be manipulated. So at the moment we have dueling statistics about what’s really going on in DC and elsewhere. The police have been saying that recent DC statistics – prior to Trump’s action – were artificially low.
NOTE: Here’s an interesting article on the lethality of crimes in DC.
Pretty much says it all. The statistics don’t demonstrate incompetence, they demonstrate complicity.
I’m always more than a little skeptical of certain reported international crime rates. Things like homicides per 100,000 people. In more corrupt, authoritrian regimes I’ll sometimes wonder how many murders are truly being reported in the first place, let alone if they’re actually counted in whatever official reports are released.
official figures in other countries are probably as skewed if not more so, but using apples to apples comparisons gives some basis for review,
Well if you don’t like those stats, howzaboutdeez. Complicit.
“…But Democrats seem to think that shouldn’t be the way.”
Heh, “the way” is, no doubt, gentle persuasion…but as is mentioned above, they’re COMPLICIT: they WANT high crime rates. They NEED high crime rates…since how else you gonna implement the Cloward-Piven version of “I have a DREAM!!”?
AND HOW! they do…and it’s not exactly MLK’s, nossir.
THEIR dream—of their spiritual fathers (and mothers)—is…the not-so-subtle methodology of generating crisis after crisis after crisis! Which, wonder of wonders, is amazingly flexible…since you can do it when you’re in power and also when you’re not!!
Yep, somewhere Lenin is smiling…
(Did I say “gentle persuasion”?
The ONLY thing the Democrats have been able to persuade me of is that they’re pathological liars and criminals…but maybe that’s just…moi…)
File under:
Whaddowewant? CRISIS!!
Whendowewannit? NOW!!…and forever!!
“You can’t arrest your way out of a crime problem” is right up there with “You can’t drill your way out of an energy shortage.”
“The ONLY thing the Democrats have been able to persuade me of is that they’re pathological liars and criminals…but maybe that’s just…moi…)” Barry Meislin
When the end is worthy enough, it justifies the means necessary to achieving that end. What is lying and criminality compared to saving the planet? Stopping inequality, greed and oppression? Surely these ends are worth whatever it takes to achieve them? Sing our anthem with us!
Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us, only sky
Imagine all the people
Livin’ for today
Ah
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
Imagine all the people
Livin’ life in peace
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one
Crime down?
I blame:
Trump
Climate change
The parents.
Wendy K Laubach wrote:
“You can’t arrest your way out of a crime problem” is right up there with “You can’t drill your way out of an energy shortage.”
Along with “You can’t do mass deportations” and “Walls don’t work.”
This is obviously right-wing propaganda. How could crime possibly fall when Full of Schiff and Felonia von Pantsuit both previously assured us that there was no crime in D.C. to begin with? I mean, crime can’t drop below zero, can it?
Chuck Schumer says:
“I wake up early In the morning sometimes and takea nice walk as the sun is rising around some of the Capitol and the other monuments and things, andIfeel perfectly safe.”
But fails to mention that he has a full-time security detail.
Thats curious
https://x.com/TonySeruga/status/1958143370662166836
Theres more than meets the eye with the kabuki
Crime in the suites not the streets
https://x.com/j_fishback/status/1958135516013920262
Likewise
https://x.com/EdMartinDOJ/status/1958113126194540987
You notice this pattern all around the world
https://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/what-is-raising-the-colours-about
Thought crime otoh is rampant real crime seems to be the default