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From: bax02_spamblock@baxcode.com
J D wrote in news:XnsB33D8B66AA5C24043B@0.0.0.1:
> On 16 Aug 2025, a425couple posted some
> news:cr1oQ.8854$S8Ne.2740@fx45.iad:
>
>> On 8/13/25 10:18, Baxter wrote:
>>> a425couple wrote in
>>> news:SG2nQ.6865$4dS5.5228@fx16.iad:
>>>
>>>> On 8/13/25 08:46, Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>>>> https://ethicsalarms.com/2025/08/12/on-trumps-d-c-law-enforcement-t
>>>>> a ke 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.
>>>>>
>> ---
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>> -----
>>>>> 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.
>> ------
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>
>> Baxter, quit being a knee jerk TDS jerk.
>> The crime rate was STILL VERY BAD,
>>
>> It turns our that the population in Washington DC, Portland, and
>> Seattle is all close to the same. I will just list homicides
>> here because they are SERIOUS, and more likely to be properly counted
>> than a number of other crimes.
>>
>> - - - - - - - - 2020 - 2021 - 2022 - 2023 - 2024
>> Washington DC 198 - 226 - 203 - 274 - 187
>> Portland 55 - 92 - 101 - 73 - 71
>> Seattle 53 - 41 - 54 - 69 - 61
>>
>> Does Baxter really want to claim that in our nation's capital,
>> where our leaders and many international people have to live
>> that we should think a three time higher rate is just fine?
>> And those poor citizens certainly deserve our good efforts.
>
> All run, or should we say ruined by Democrats and their policies.
>
> DC population 678,972
> Portland 615,267
> Seattle 764,753
> St Louis* 269,259 - 294 Murders in 2024.
> Memphis 607,581 - 297 Murders in 2024.
>
> *Over the last 20 plus years, between 2000 and 2023, the population of
> St. Louis decreased by 65,183.
>
> If you want to reduce crime, hold miscreants accountable and enforce
> the laws. Democrats refuse to do either.
>
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But party rule does not drive crime. Consider DeSantiss state, Florida.
Its homicide rate was roughly 50 percent higher than New Yorks in 2021.
Floridas two most populous cities, Jacksonville and Miami, each had a
homicide rate more than double New York Citys last year, even though
both had Republican mayors.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/31/briefing/crime.html
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