Said ABC News anchor Kyra Phillips, quoted in the NY Post.
But the numbers!
August 15, 2025
"I can tell you firsthand here in downtown DC where we work, right here around our bureau, just in the past six months, you know, there were two people shot, one person died..."
"... literally two blocks down here from the bureau. It was within the last two years that I actually was jumped walking just two blocks down from here. And then, just this morning, one of my co-workers said her car was stolen, a block away from the bureau. We can talk about the numbers going down, but crime is happening every single day because we’re all experiencing it firsthand, working and living down here...."
Said ABC News anchor Kyra Phillips, quoted in the NY Post.
Said ABC News anchor Kyra Phillips, quoted in the NY Post.
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"Said previous ABC News anchor Kyra Phillips." Comments tangentially supporting Trump policies ensure an early retirement from the MSM business.
Lately I've been watching After Party with Emily Jashinsky on YouTube. She recently had two other women on her show. All three had worked and lived in DC for a number of years. All three were under the impression that crime in DC had gotten out of control. Even going so far as saying something like everyone in DC knows someone who has been affected by a major crime. After Party. I believe Emily is from Wisconsin too originally.
Yah, that’s not the narrative Kyra.
Yeah, but did anybody get smacked with a Subway sandwich like literally two blocks away??
I heard my cousin Sally who works like two blocks away said they're putting litter boxes on the street corners so the homless people who identify as cats have a place to piss! Your tax dollars at work!!!
Trump is not perfect, and I have been guilty of criticizing him when he is in the arena fighting valiantly against forces arrayed against him on all sides, and has been forced to make concessions to them at times, but he is the best president that I can recall in my lifetime. Reagan was pretty good, but I was too young and didn't care about politics at the time, so I will leave him out of the discussion. I was a good Democrat and the only Republican I ever voted for was a judge "because she was a women" I am not kidding and ashamed to confess. So after Reagan, who did wake me up, yes, I am a "Reagan Democrat" who never went back. Trump is the best.
Anecdote must always trump data!
Maybe Sidney Sweeney was a cultural moment that signals a turning point.
Oh, it’s not so bad. Chances are you won’t be killed… I think.
Except for the DOJ's weaponization of hoagies, DC is actually pretty safe.
"Anecdote must always trump data!"
Yes, even as we have seen the data cooked time after time, even as cops stop arresting criminals because they know that the charges will simply be. dropped.
This kind of hit and run rhetoric is all the left has. No opportunity for discussion here, no, just some statement that seems true, if you assume a whole bunch of other conditions, such as the integrity of the statistics. This is why the left can't do an unscripted three hour show.
"Comments tangentially supporting Trump policies ensure an early retirement from the MSM business."
People really don't understand how insular and incestuous the "news" business is. They can't understand how it is that ALL media tow the same line.
The reason is that they still practice blacklisting. The ONLY people who survive in their careers in the "news" business are people willing to advance the chosen narrative. All others are removed from employment.
The destruction of a career you paid sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars to obtain; the loss of your home to mortgage default; the removal of your children from your home for neglect ... these are powerful motivating forces that you can threaten people with if they don't tow the line.
It's the same with lawyers.
When you have folks like botfly redefining assault as free speech, you can see how crime is down. Shoplifting is reappropriating as is carjacking. If you don’t like it, you’ll get more speech. Shame. Shame.
"Mark said...
Anecdote must always trump data!"
In a recent analysis of textual statements regarding the levels of crime in the Washington D.C. area, an absolute majority, at 75%, supported the proposition that violent crime was a significant problem. Only 8.3% supported the proposition that violent crime was not a significant problem. 16.7% were non-responsive. (n = 12)
Leftists don't mind having others become "statistics."
Now do Baltimore, just up the road from DC. The police aggressively patrol the tourism and entertainment Inner Harbor and Fells Point region downtown, but much of the city is a burned out Detroit-style wasteland and public dump. Don't miss the beverage sellers and window washers who'll approach you at many stoplights. Don't miss the mountain of stolen pay-to-rent bikes. Don't miss the imprisoned mayor, as convicted for selling (bribing) bulk children's books.
Blue cities. Blue states. They demand respect. Give them the respect they deserve. Equity. Equity. Equity.
Stop noticing things Kyra, pretty soon they will call you Steve Sailer
A clear statement from a media figure. Imagine that.
Doubleplus ungood.
Sure, who needs sinking statistics when we can have rising fear? In Trumpland, fear trumps facts — and that’s how we get solutions at the whim of one man that don’t even match the problem.
Apparently, if you live your whole life in DC you have only a 2% chance of being murdered. That's not so bad.
What are black people saying about it. Of course white liberals are against it.
Once again, Dems force themselves into taking the losing end of 80/20 issues. They can't help themselves.
You can add the sub chucker to the DC crime stats. If he any guts he would have thrown his shoe.
Dems ought to take their shitheel bag of tricks and have sexual Congress with themselves.
It’d be pretty ironic if, after the good cops work in DC works well and people across the country see how effective it is, people understand how to improve their own areas and vote accordingly. The Texas +5 redistricting may be swamped by D districts turning red. Everyone wants to be safe in their neighborhoods.
"In Trumpland, fear trumps facts"
"fear trumps facts"
"facts"
I'm not sure that word means what you think it means.
Supposedly the numbers in DC have been cooked. So, is crime going down? Maybe maybe not.
if my town had a murder rate FIVE TIMES the national average..
and the town leaders said:
"WELL, the murder rate is DOWN 0.0000045% from last year!
i would NOT be impressed.
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