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Trump’s Got A Great Suggestion For Reporters Claiming D.C. Crime Is Not A Problem
red ^ | 08/13/2025 | Katie Jerkovich

Posted on 08/13/2025 7:37:15 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 08/13/2025 7:37:15 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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He should have just told them to do a slow roll through Anacostia at 2am.


2 posted on 08/13/2025 7:46:20 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable anima)
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Or better yet, tell them take a leisurely stroll through the DC streets around midnight. Oh, and be sure to wear some nice jewelry and carry a cell phone.


3 posted on 08/13/2025 7:50:48 PM PDT by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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I have a great idea. Take a reporter for the New York Times to the worst neighborhood in DC. Chain the reporter to a tree. Set up a trail cam to capture the action. Return in the morning to see what happened.

4 posted on 08/13/2025 7:55:46 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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This is a great idea except. They would misreport what they saw the same as they can misreport on the actual crime statistics. This tactic only works if they’re honest.


5 posted on 08/13/2025 8:03:25 PM PDT by FrankRizzo890
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There's absolutely no need for ride-alongs because...

Democrat Mayors Report Violent Crime Down 40% Since They Redefined ‘Violent’ And ‘Crime’.


6 posted on 08/13/2025 8:06:39 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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just make the reporters walk around DC when they want to travel anywhere. That would do the trick.


7 posted on 08/13/2025 8:15:55 PM PDT by Revel
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Ride-along, Hell. Make them walk a mile through these neighborhoods by themselves, unarmed, with no bodyguards.


8 posted on 08/13/2025 8:30:35 PM PDT by _longranger81
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You don’t have to go that far - just go a few blocks north of the White House and you’re in the highest crime areas of the district:

https://crimecards.dc.gov/

(White House is in the blue rectangle where it says “D.C.”)

And this is the with DC police cooking the books to mis-report crimes so the stats don’t look so bad.


9 posted on 08/13/2025 8:32:12 PM PDT by bigbob (If thou doth eff around, thou wilt findeth out)
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Firearms offenses (6 illegal handguns were seized)
Possession of a high-capacity magazine

Shall not be infringed.

10 posted on 08/13/2025 8:32:49 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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Evil bastards. Gain and retain power is all they care about, and they literally don’t care if their voters die


11 posted on 08/13/2025 8:44:59 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Ride along would be fine. But they’d find out much faster if they just went on leisurely strolls at night. They’d find out the truth, real fast, and would need to take up officers time with ride-alongs.


12 posted on 08/13/2025 9:39:08 PM PDT by vpintheak (Screw the ChiComms! America first!)
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I think they should just take a walk in a bad neighborhood at 2:00 AM. They will come out of it as Republicans (If they make it)


13 posted on 08/13/2025 9:52:53 PM PDT by Colorado Doug
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Except for Anacostia, DC turned itself around before covid.

Other blue cities such as Portland are no-go zones nowadays because the Democrats refused to do anything about crime once again.

Bill Clinton was "tough on crime" but we are seeing the Democrats return to their roots, they've always been weak on crime. NYC was Gotham before Rudy Giuliani. Even today, NYC is not that bad but that may change soon with the election of Zohran Mamdani. We will probably see 1,000,000 people flee NYC.

14 posted on 08/13/2025 10:02:49 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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They won’t do it.

100%.


15 posted on 08/13/2025 10:08:53 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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The methadone clinics open at 5 am and half of SE is in line or messing with traffic. When you miss the last I-295 exit before the bridge, you’re stuck with making the U-turn from Hell on the other side in Anacostia.


16 posted on 08/13/2025 10:23:51 PM PDT by Thrownatbirth (.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91. )
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To: Leaning Right

I actually thought DJT was going to say something very close to that.


17 posted on 08/13/2025 10:55:47 PM PDT by cld51860 ("This business will get out of control...")
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I saw that female journalist from the Washington Examiner on NewsNation who was sexually assaulted and robbed by a mugger in DC.

Shockingly, she said she went over the public crime records for DC and the police had suppressed her crime. She said there was no report of it despite her being in the hospital and having to testify (the assaulter was let out on bail and committed five separate crimes before her case came up, each time with a DC judge letting him go again).

So her being sexually assaulted was not on the crime statistics list of things getting better.

Personal note. A young woman student assistant at the university where I used to work was raped one night outside in the bushes on the campus. She had a hard time getting her mind back on studies and trying to trust people and so on and we all did our best to help her recover. She was always nervous and worried after the rape.

When the crime report mandated by the government for the university came out for that month, a woman at work was open mouthed. There was no statistic for her assault. The university made the statistic disappear. “So she doesn’t count?”

The mandatory reporting was due to the practice of covering up crimes so parents wouldn’t shun the colleges for their children to apply there. The little secrets made the colleges look safer. Sadly, even with the government demand they still cheated.

Another nearby university had a string of female students being grabbed and raped as they took a shortcut through a dark parking lot behind a convenience store. Finally one story made the regular newspaper and the police admitted there had been earlier rapes in the same shortcut area but they had decided to keep that news out of the newspaper. College didn’t want the bad publicity.

So had the women been informed, they could have avoided taking the shortcut. Dirty cops and dirty news media.


18 posted on 08/13/2025 11:29:26 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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Photos.

I loathe and despise each and every one.


19 posted on 08/13/2025 11:33:02 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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It amazes me how these idiots get elected in the first place. I assume they do so by the usual method of lying and lying and lying and making ridiculous promises they obviously can’t keep.

It’s like this clowm Zohran Mamdani running for Mayor in New York city, he claims everything will be free, free buses, free apartments, free grocery stores, oh yes and no cops who will be replaced by social workers and no prisons because prisons “are obsolete and serve no purpose”.

Who thinks like this? 3 year olds? People fall for this crap?


20 posted on 08/14/2025 12:45:59 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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