The cities with the highest violent crime rates in the US are Anniston, Alabama and Bessemer, Alabama. Why doesn't Trump move the military there? DC doesn't even make the top 50. Violent crime in DC is lower than when Trump was last president and has declined the last 3 years. And yes, among the lowest rates in three decades. This is an authoritarian power grab by Trump. He wants to attack and lock up immigrants, minority groups, the poor, and the homeless. Not stop crime. Yes, crime is lower in Moscow because of authoritarian rule. You folks want the lowest crime rates? Please move there.
Thank you for the detailed observations as an actual resident there. NO sarcasm. I went to DC and had no issues but that was in '05. While I don't agree with everything Trump does this might be a good start. The key is--how long can they sustain an NG presence? If the NG leaves the criminals could come out of the woodwork again.
Just to be clear, I wasn't intending to voice support for the national guard presence, and I went out of my way to point out that a lot of the blame goes to the federal officials who are supposed to be prosecuting crime. While the DC police need more officers, the main problem isn't that we can't catch people; it's that we let them go. That's especially true for minors, who are responsible a lot of the recent disorder. They're engaged in performative lawbreaking for fun because they know that there are no consequences.
My main point was just that the crime is a real issue, whatever the stats say. It's not necessarily apparent to a non-resident because high income neighborhoods still look like high income neighborhoods (beer gardens and goldendoodles), but if you live there, it's going to affect your qualify of life eventually. Someone you know will be a victim. You'll get harassed or pushed by teenagers when you're minding your own business. You'll 100% hear gunshots regularly. More stores have armed guards out front, or they lock everything up.
Have I personally been robbed, assaulted, or carjacked? No. But that doesn't mean living here has been pleasant. If three teenagers surround you, threaten you, and walk for multiple blocks within a few feet of you, you're not going to feel safe.
The cities with the highest violent crime rates in the US are Anniston, Alabama and Bessemer, Alabama. Why doesn't Trump move the military there? DC doesn't even make the top 50. Violent crime in DC is lower than when Trump was last president and has declined the last 3 years. And yes, among the lowest rates in three decades. This is an authoritarian power grab by Trump. He wants to attack and lock up immigrants, minority groups, the poor, and the homeless. Not stop crime. Yes, crime is lower in Moscow because of authoritarian rule. You folks want the lowest crime rates? Please move there.
Everyone here knows this is fake. Many red states have sky-high murder rates and opiate usage, but Trump will never, ever call out Republican leadership. Nor will he call out white violence, as when the lawmakers in Minnesota were shot, or the quadruple Idaho murders.
This is 100% selling against Democrats, by banging the Klansman drum. Trump has been playing that instrument for 40 years, ever since he tried to kill 5 innocent teens in the Central Park Five affair. Raised a Klansman, started his political career a Klansman, and will end it as one, too.
This may make the law abiding public feel better about something being done about thugs and violent crime but that is all it is, window dressing.
As long as the black community doesn’t address their out of wedlock birthrates, it’s rates of fatherless families which the census bureau notes guarantees a 3 times rate of youth truancy and violence and 5 times incarceration rate by the age of 35, they will continue to victimize the civilized world.
No white guy, white cop, good citizen of any color or culture can change it and nothing is going to change until the first step is at least achieved.
That is to acknowledge it, talk about it and the responsible citizens within the black community fix it.
Thank you for the detailed observations as an actual resident there. NO sarcasm. I went to DC and had no issues but that was in '05. While I don't agree with everything Trump does this might be a good start. The key is--how long can they sustain an NG presence? If the NG leaves the criminals could come out of the woodwork again.
Just to be clear, I wasn't intending to voice support for the national guard presence, and I went out of my way to point out that a lot of the blame goes to the federal officials who are supposed to be prosecuting crime. While the DC police need more officers, the main problem isn't that we can't catch people; it's that we let them go. That's especially true for minors, who are responsible a lot of the recent disorder. They're engaged in performative lawbreaking for fun because they know that there are no consequences.
My main point was just that the crime is a real issue, whatever the stats say. It's not necessarily apparent to a non-resident because high income neighborhoods still look like high income neighborhoods (beer gardens and goldendoodles), but if you live there, it's going to affect your qualify of life eventually. Someone you know will be a victim. You'll get harassed or pushed by teenagers when you're minding your own business. You'll 100% hear gunshots regularly. More stores have armed guards out front, or they lock everything up.
Have I personally been robbed, assaulted, or carjacked? No. But that doesn't mean living here has been pleasant. If three teenagers surround you, threaten you, and walk for multiple blocks within a few feet of you, you're not going to feel safe.
Even if true, none of that requires troops on the streets (who are, incidentally, doing nothing. It's a mere Trump photo op). It's all a deflection from the Epstein files. Release them.
Everyone here knows this is fake. Many red states have sky-high murder rates and opiate usage, but Trump will never, ever call out Republican leadership. Nor will he call out white violence, as when the lawmakers in Minnesota were shot, or the quadruple Idaho murders.
This is 100% selling against Democrats, by banging the Klansman drum. Trump has been playing that instrument for 40 years, ever since he tried to kill 5 innocent teens in the Central Park Five affair. Raised a Klansman, started his political career a Klansman, and will end it as one, too.
KKK was and is Democrats.
Formed out of the former Confederacy before they turned Republican under Jim Crow.
This may make the law abiding public feel better about something being done about thugs and violent crime but that is all it is, window dressing.
As long as the black community doesn’t address their out of wedlock birthrates, it’s rates of fatherless families which the census bureau notes guarantees a 3 times rate of youth truancy and violence and 5 times incarceration rate by the age of 35, they will continue to victimize the civilized world.
No white guy, white cop, good citizen of any color or culture can change it and nothing is going to change until the first step is at least achieved.
That is to acknowledge it, talk about it and the responsible citizens within the black community fix it.
This may make the law abiding public feel better about something being done about thugs and violent crime but that is all it is, window dressing.
As long as the black community doesn’t address their out of wedlock birthrates, it’s rates of fatherless families which the census bureau notes guarantees a 3 times rate of youth truancy and violence and 5 times incarceration rate by the age of 35, they will continue to victimize the civilized world.
No white guy, white cop, good citizen of any color or culture can change it and nothing is going to change until the first step is at least achieved.
That is to acknowledge it, talk about it and the responsible citizens within the black community fix it.
White America isn't the "civilised world". It's simply a continuing bastion for white supremacy. How "civilised" were 3 centuries of slavery and a century of Jim Crow and now the white supremacists in the WH? (Yeah - it is properly called the "White" House. That's who it's for.)
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