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   a425couple  wrote in   
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   > On 8/13/25 08:46, Michael Ejercito wrote:   
   >> https://ethicsalarms.com/2025/08/12/on-trumps-d-c-law-enforcement-take   
   >> over   
   >>   
   >> On Trump’s D.C. Law Enforcement Takeover   
   >> August 12, 2025 / Jack Marshall   
   >>   
   > a good one.  A key:   
   > > Congress or a President should have intervened in D.C.’s crime   
   > > problem long ago. They didn’t, because they were afraid of being   
   > > attacked as racist: D.C. is overwhelmingly black, and the serious   
   > > crimes are committed overwhelmingly by blacks.Trump isn’t afraid,   
   > > because Axis of Unethical Conduct calls him a racist regardless of   
   > > what he does,   
   > and he can’t lose any votes in D.C. because he never had any.   
   >>   
   >> Invoking section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act,   
   >> President Trump has deployed National Guard troops to D.C. and is   
   >> taking over the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) to “help   
   >> reestablish law, order and public safety” in the city. The   
   >> President has the power to do this for 30 days; anyone calling it a   
   >> frightening use of autocratic power is in the revolting camp of those   
   >> who believe that any legitimate exercise Presidential power is   
   >> fascistic and dangerous if this President is the one exercising it.   
   >>   
   >> Naturally, Trump being Trump, he has been exaggerating the extent of   
   >> D.C.’s problem. PBS, which, to its enduring shame, used phony   
   >> factchecking site PolitiFact to challenge Trump’s hyperboles, noted   
   >> that Trump’s stats were from 2023 and that “at least 49 other   
   >> cities in the world had higher homicide rates” in that year. Oh!   
   >> Then what’s all the fuss about? Here’s one: none of those cities   
   >> is the capital of the United States of America. D.C.’s crime and   
   >> murder rate are above the national average. The nation’s capital   
   >> should be a model of safety, public civility and fealty to the law,   
   >> not a city that’s “not as bad as it used to be and you can find   
   >> others that are even worse.”>   
   >>   
   >> It is unconscionable that D.C. is the dangerous city it is. It was   
   >> considered dangerous when I moved there to go to law school, many   
   >> decades ago. The progressive narrative to attack Trump’s move is   
   >> that level of violent crime are coming down from last year. Yes, it   
   >> is coming down from an unacceptable level and will be at an   
   >> unacceptable level still. This defensive logic is literally   
   >> Rationalization #22 “It’s not the worst thing.” Maybe not, but   
   >> it’s still terrible.   
   >>   
   >> Congress or a President should have intervened in D.C.’s crime   
   >> problem long ago. They didn’t, because they were afraid of being   
   >> attacked as racist: D.C. is overwhelmingly black, and the serious   
   >> crimes are committed overwhelmingly by blacks. Trump isn’t afraid,   
   >> because the Axis of Unethical Conduct calls him a racist regardless   
   >> of what he does, and he can’t lose any votes in D.C. because he   
   >> never had any.   
   >>   
   >> Naturally, the news media is characterizing the D.C. policing   
   >> take-over as “racist.” When a large, Democratic-run city ceases   
   >> to have a disproportionate amount of crimes committed by its black   
   >> residents, I’ll be ready to consider such complaints. Black America   
   >> has a serious crime- culture problem that will not abate until black   
   >> leadership and community leaders accept responsibility and begin   
   >> leading the community away from toxic lifestyle choices. That,   
   >> however, undermines the perpetual victim fiction, so it isn’t going   
   >> to happen.   
   >>   
   >> Absurdly, the D.C. City Council makes the prosecution of   
   >> juvenile—and often young non-juvenile—criminals an exercise in   
   >> futility. They are often not charged and if they are, seldom get   
   >> anything but light sentences. Trump’s troops won’t be able to do   
   >> anything about that, but maybe D.C.’s voters will begin to see the   
   >> wisdom of serious law enforcement.   
   >>   
   >> D.C., one must remember, elected a convicted felon ex-mayor to the   
   >> City Council, and he has a statue in the city representing him as a   
   >> hero. Many other members of the city council in the past have had   
   >> criminal records, either before or after their tenure. Many were   
   >> juvenile offenders. No wonder they are sympathetic to young   
   >> offenders.   
   >>   
   >> I heard one Democrat fuming over Trump’s latest adventure by   
   >> complaining that “he seems to think he should get involved in every   
   >> problem.” If a President has the power and opportunity to fix a   
   >> problem that other elected officials refuse to take on, he should get   
   >> involved.   
   >>   
   >> Trump’s critics look foolish and desperate attacking him for the   
   >> D.C. action, and, as is now the norm, are lying as hard as they can.   
   >> Slate: “D.C.’s 700,000 residents will live the next month under a   
   >> police force that has been openly encouraged by the President to   
   >> commit acts of brutality against civilians.” This is news for the   
   >> Trump Deranged, because they will believe anything.   
   >>   
   >   
   >   
   Crime in DC was at a 30 year low before tRump took over the police.  Now   
   you have Federal agents patrolling a park where there has been zero crime   
   in recent years.   
      
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