Posted on 08/20/2025 1:59:44 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Violent crime in the capital drops 22% in first week of Trump federal police control implementation.
As the wailing and gnashing of teeth over the Trump administration’s takeover of the Washington DC police force begins to fade, the results are coming in, and they are nothing short of extraordinary.
As of Wednesday afternoon, the nation’s capital has had no murders for seven days, something that had not been achieved since March and something I can find no recent record of in summer months when the murder rate is typically at its highest.
Last Monday, when a man was tragically gunned down in Logan Circle just hours after the Trump takeover, Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., took to social media to say that "Trump owns this. No word if the congressman agrees Trump also owns the lives saved this past week.
And it's not just murder, according to the local police union. Robbery dropped 46% in the week after the takeover, carjackings were down a whopping 83%, and violent crime down 22%. Who could possibly argue against that?
What DC needed was not a slow and steady approach to crime that fluctuates the rates here and there. It needed a shock to the system, and it got one. The patient is responding very well.
The lesson here, as Shakespeare put it, is "If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly," which is to say that history shows us that cleaning up urban crime is not a slow, laborious process, but one to be attacked fast and aggressively.
In his first term as mayor of New York City, Rudy Giuliani oversaw a 60% drop in Gotham’s murder rate, and a violent crime drop of 56%, much of it in his first two years.
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Democrats desperately suing to bring back murders in DC! ... not a joke! ...
White progressives love bike lanes more than children.
True.
[It’s like the Democrats want US citizens murdered]
Yep
“No doubt they have a social network monitoring the cops”
More like a great deal of DC cops are in cahoots one way or another and just telling their friends/relatives to lay low a while.
White progressives are securely entrenched in solipsism as their belief system. Al white male progressives are effeminate p___ies and the women are just nasty and fugly.
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