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It's a very strange reaction by Politico's senior editor Michael Schaffer to the federal takeover of the Washington, D.C. police force. In fact you could categorize that reaction as disappointment as you can see in his Thursday piece expressing amazement as to "Why Washington Residents Aren’t Flooding the Streets to Protest Trump."As if to emphasize that disappointment, the subtitle chimes in with this frustrating (for Schaffer) observation: "DC is built for protests. But after Trump’s takeover, they aren’t happening."Where, oh where are the mass protests against the federal takeover of the DC police? Let us take a journey with poor...

VIDEOYeah, when you try to prove that crime in Washington, D.C. is low by focusing solely on a gentrified neighborhood in Northwest D.C. as this snarky Lib did, it means she is such an expert on generating FAKE NEWS that she should get a job as a reporter at the NBC News4 station in Washington, D.C.. Watch what happened just days after NBC News4 reported the FAKE NEWS about supposedly plunging crime stats in DC. Karma is a bitch but it also can be HILARIOUS as when News4 reporter Ted Oberg got the smug smacked off his face by an...

The nation's capital ended the year with a massive spike in homicides. No, D.C., nor any other major city, is seeing crime levels return to that of the 1990s. Nevertheless, it's a somber statistic for a city whose police force is at its lowest levels in ten years. In all, the city witnessed 162 homicides within its limits, a 54 percent increase (via FoxDC): On the final day of the year, we asked a community leader, a police officer and the mayor about what is causing all of this violence. Paul Trantham, an ANC commissioner in Ward 8, represents one of the...

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two congressional aides abducted from their Capitol Hill apartment foiled a robbery attempt early Wednesday by offering to retrieve money from a House office, where police made an arrest and took custody of a second gunman waiting outside in a car.</p>