Posted on 08/21/2025 10:17:14 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
For years, Washington, D.C.’s so-called leaders resigned themselves to the idea that crime was inevitable. Then came President Donald Trump, who saw a problem and took the novel approach of actually doing something about it — sending in the National Guard to restore order in the capital.
The result? For the first time in ages, D.C. has gone seven straight days without a single homicide.
According to Fox45, the capital has also seen carjackings decrease by 83%, “robberies by 46%, car thefts by 21%, and overall violent crime is down 22%.”
Sgt. Betsy Smith of the National Police Association said Washington, D.C.’s police department is suffering critical staffing shortages, which is an issue since “More police generally equals less crime.”
Of course that simple truth runs counter to everything the left has preached for years. They’ve championed defunding the police, smeared law enforcement as systemically racist, and sneered at Trump’s efforts to make Washington not just safe, but livable again. In fact, they’ve told us for days now that Trump’s efforts actually make D.C. unsafe.
The Center for American Progress (CAP) wrote that “these deployments … fail to address the district’s real public safety priorities.” CAP argued that the deployment of the National Guard “will threaten public safety in the nation’s capital.”
D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb said the deployment “undermines public safety” while one D.C. resident, Mara Lasko, told CNN that she doesn’t think the National Guard makes people feel safer.
“I don’t think they’re actually doing anything productive to make our city a safer place,” Lasko said.
Of course the data disproves their opinions.
But their outrage was never really about the National Guard — or police in general — making the streets safer. Nobody actually...
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Actually, Rudy showed us how to clean up a city after what he did in NYC. For a while, we were following his lead. But we moved away from "broken windows" policing after 2020 so here we are today.
Oh, I remember it well.
“Was referring to Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, where he fostered the idea of giving the serfs just enough to keep them on the plantation forever.”
And therein lies the problem.
It’d start a firestorm (or at least a sh*tstorm) but when is a major figure like Trump gonna speak straight to the blacks and say something like “To the Democrat Party, you are all collectively nothing but slaves. They want you in economic chains, not steel chains. They offer you just enough to keep you on their side - but never come up with a plan to help you succeed. All these urban planners and social justice crusaders are getting ahead just fine - but you’re not. It’s time to break the chains of poverty and dependence. But the Democrats don’t want you to”.
Very true. Hope an investigation into the demoncRATS running DC bank accounts are definitely in order. Wonder how much taxpayer monies went into those accounts and any offshore bank accounts.
Now that's a novel concept.
That's mighty close to Yellowstone's 'Take him to the train station'.
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