Posted on 08/13/2025 6:27:12 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
Left-wing journalists and their Democrat friends have been shrieking since Monday about how gloriously safe Washington, D.C., is, and how, as one particularly low-IQ White House correspondent stated, there is a “nonexistent crime crisis” in the nation’s capital.
Homelessness? “Not a problem,” they say. Homicide? “What homicide?” they’ll interject, despite the city having clocked its 100th homicide this year on Monday.
The cowardice and shame in their voices are palpable. First, because they know, from their own life experience, that they are lying, and, second, because, even if they have not experienced D.C.’s crime in a while, it just means they have reached a level of pseudo-immunity unavailable to the countless normal people who have to deal with D.C.’s lawlessness on a daily basis.
And yet, just one day after President Donald Trump took control of the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department with an express purpose of handling homeless vagrants and crime rampant in the city, The Federalist’s own office door was blockaded by a belligerent, drunk homeless man screaming profanities.
It was not just the vagrant leaning against our door. He was joined by two others crowding the sidewalk directly outside.
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A kakistocracy on full display.
If they really believe this, have them dress for a night on the town, then go out and walk the streets in DC until dawn. See how many of them survive the night.
Have you seen their “chief?” Proof that DEI is beyond failure. It’s a travesty.
Correct.
You can’t believe anything far-left “journalists” say. They’ve been taught to lie their entire lives. Learn the truth, turn off the “yellowstream media”.
The chain of command thing really is mind boggling. I understood chain of command probably before age 10 (Army brat upbringing), and understood it well by age 12 from studying military history.
For the chief of DC police to not understand the term/concept is frightening. She should be removed immediately just for that, let alone their crime problems.
She gets the diversity trifecta, and then some.
Then deal with the weeds in front of the building. It looks like it's an abandoned property.
“You can’t believe anything far-left “journalists” say”
One thing they are saying is that VIOLENT crime is down. That doesn’t include all crime. I suspect most crime is nonviolent.
“despite the city having clocked its 100th homicide this year on Monday.”
This would be about 160 homicides on an annualized basis. This is a reduction compared to the Biden years, and the same as Trump’s first term. In the Biden years (2021-2024 inclusive) it averaged 222. In Trump’s first term (2017-2020 inclusive) it averaged 160. Curiously murders even fell in the year prior to Trump’s election and rose in the year prior to Biden’s election.
Why the pattern? I think people know who will be more tolerant of crime. That applies both to criminals and to police departments. People may also sense when political change is likely.
Here’s a story from early 2017, around the time of Trump’s inauguration. There were planned demonstrations against laying a pipeline near alleged Indian burial grounds. A Marxist relative advised a young liberal relative not to attend because of Trump.
“””If they really believe this, have them dress for a night on the town, then go out and walk the streets in DC until dawn. See how many of them survive the night.”””””
Have them act out the movie Warriors. You get dropped off at the other end of town and have to make it home by dawn.
From the drunken panhandlers to the drug injecting zombies to the little monster thugs from fatherless homes to the full-time career criminals, there is only one group to blame for this- the leftist democrats.
If we ever want to cure this cancer in our society, we need to vote every one of them OUT and NEVER let them back in. The only thing that stops this disintegration is consequences and making shame great again.
Democrats have never met a criminal, thug, gangbanger, bum, street person, drug addict, or illegal alien that they didn’t want to protect; it would appear that the above are the natural constituency of the Democrats ...
IT TOOK NO TIME AT ALL FOR THE STATISTICS DC HANDED TO REPORTERS & FEDS:
THE STATISTICS FOR ASSAULTS-—MINOR & FELONY-—WERE NOT LISTED IF “NO WEAPON” WAS USED!!!! ZERO...
DIDN’T THE DOGE GUY GET SEVERELY BEATEN UP TRYING TO STOP A CAR JACKING-—AND THEY “ONLY” USED FISTS?
WHEN YOU “LEAVE OUT” THE STATISTICS THAT DO NOT “INVOLVE A WEAPON”—YOU ARE NOT TELLING THE TRUTH.
D C MAYOR HAS SOME “SPLAINING” TO DO, IMO
HOW MANY OTHER CITIES ARE EQUALLY GUILTY OF OMISSIONS???
They are just mad because they want more blacks assaulted, robbed and killed.
Well, that dig was uncalled for. It's the main street of the black entertainment district—restaurants, jazz clubs, etc.—and Howard University, the top tier of the historically black colleges.
Their timidity in waiting for hours and hours to demand response is typical white college kid behavior. They need to learn the code: “He must have a gun. He threatened to shoot us.”
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