Posted on 08/20/2025 8:18:49 AM PDT by DallasBiff
When President Trump launched an effort to address crime in Washington, D.C., he argued that the source of the city's problems was clear.
"This dire public safety crisis stems directly from the abject failures of the city's local leadership," Trump said from the White House last week. "The Democrats are weak on crime. Totally weak on crime," he later added
Throughout his time in office, Trump has criticized Democratic-led cities for what he calls "radical left" policies on criminal justice. Those attacks have grown sharper in recent days, as the president took the extraordinary step of nationalizing the D.C. police force and deploying the National Guard — all while signaling other cities may be next.
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I’ll never understand why an entire political party loves criminals and crime all the while hating law-abiding citizens who want a peaceful life.
Democrats supported defund the police, the rise of antifa, BLM, radical prosecutors who do not prosecute crime, short sentences, early release, revolving doors, radical lawyers, the utterly stupid idea of using social workers instead of police, and cooking the books to hide the result.
Is ANYBODY surprised that that toxic cocktail of anti-social policy led to a huge growth of crime?
If slavery was still around and Trump tried to end it, demonicRATS would oppose him.
Another stat to add to the list:
DC Invests More in Policing Than Any Other Large City
In 2022, Washington DC was the city with the largest per capita police force in the country with 543 officers per 100,000 residents
[1 officer per 184 people]
The ten cities that employed the most police officers per capita in 2022 were:
Washington DC: 542.91 per 100,000 residents
Chicago, IL: 454.61
Las Vegas, NV: 444.05
New York City, NY: 440.26
Detroit, MI: 393.23
Philadelphia, PA: 384.74
Memphis, TN: 313.37
Boston, MA: 301.31
Miami, FL: 299.17
Los Angeles, CA: 236.86
(http://congress.gov/.../HHRG-118-JU08-20231012-SD003.pdf,
Democrats HAVE TO be weak on crime because criminals are one of their key base constituencies.
See Post #5.
Notice the language difference in NPR since their funding was cut.
Before the headline would have read...”Trump replicates Kristallnacht in DC”
You might say it was just a terribly stupid political miscalculation (for some reason) but then you remember that the democrats did this in the 70s (then it got cleaned up), then they did it again in the late 80s/early 90s (then it got cleaned up) and here they are again. They WANT this for the USA, clearly. Why? Not sure. Overton window stuff I guess.
When “protected classes” are exempt from prosecution for crimes, you get more crimes from these protected classes.
“... signaling other cities maybe next” ?
Trump has explicit authority for DC, as it is governed by Federal laws. He cannot do what he is doing in DC un other cities.
Either the author didn’t know that, or she just wanted to flame the readers
Dim Dem crime policy: Criminals commit crime, and get rewarded. Normals get assaulted and suck it up.
That's funny and true.
The Demonrat’s want voters, and they don’t whether they are American citizens, or citizens of North Korea or South Timbuctoo!
Back when Pelousy was Speaker Of The House, she set up Federal Capitol Police offices in Florida and Kalifornia.
Perhaps President Trump could create an Executive Order to establish a Federal Capitol Police office in every sanctuary city and State. The Executive Order could have the title The Pelousy Refund, Reinvigorate The Police Order.
Their behavior reminds me so much of an addict. Gets clean, slips up once, back to addiction for another decade, gets clean again, slips up once again and back to another decade of addiction. There seems to be no ending the cycle.
In addition to its largest per capita police Department in the nation, the Metropolitan police Department, DC has the Capitol police, the park police, many people working security at government buildings and museums and many military people. Only the completely terrible Democrat policies had DC such a crime ridden place.
A few addicts manage to end the cycle. Let us hope and pray that Trump is able to end the cycle of rampant criminality in DC.
Slavery is still around.
The Democrats had to pivot to destroying the family and cultivating dependence in lieu of forced labor.
Democrats use the black community to harvest votes, not labor.
They have the illegals for the labor, but are trying to transition to also have them harvest votes as more blacks walk away from the Dems.
Democrat-run cities wanting to defund law enforcement, which is usually the first department to be cut, let crime run rampant then claim crime is down. Of course crime and violent crimes appears to be down if you won’t let your police officers arrest people, or you dismiss charges after criminals are arrested, or you lower charges from a felony to a misdemeanor, which goes on regularly.
In the Democrat mind, criminals are victims of racism or other sins of the privileged class. They have no idea of how bad these criminals are.
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