Said ABC News anchor Kyra Phillips, quoted in the NY Post.
But the numbers!
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"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.
DC had 1200 Robberies and 750 homicides and assaults with a deadly weapon in 2024. These are the "adjusted" figures. Thats 100 robberies and 65 homicides and deadly assaults a month.
"Driving home, my staff lives here on the Hill reminded me: Don't stop at a stop light until you're out of town. If I see a red light late at night and there's very little traffic, I slow up and don't stop. Because of carjackings. You're stopped at a light, people walk up with a gun and there's just nothing you can do. Just run the light."
Senator Joe Biden, in the well of the US Senate, 1992
Biden, along with Hillary Clinton, were the first to bring needed attention to the problem of black Super Predators (their words) in our nation's capital. And nothing has changed. The population of Washington DC is out of whack. Nationally, blacks make up only 13% of our population ... but in DC, it's 44% blacks and they are in the majority of all other races.
Let me put it this way Vault;
Trump: "Already they're saying, 'He's a dictator!" The place is going to hell and we got to stop it. So instead of saying 'he's a dictator' they should say 'we're going to join him in making Washington safe.' They say 'he's a dictator!' and then they end up getting mugged."
Nowhere did he deny the dictator claim. I get why he’s telling his critics they don’t get it. He’s exasperated a problem to the point that “it’s going to hell” he has “got to stop it” so therefore, that need trumps him being a dictator. He’s fabricated a five alarm fire and how he goes about putting it out is all that matters.
Shortly after- Tom Homan: “President Trump doesn’t have a limitation on his authority to make this country safe. There’s no limitation.”
This comes straight from the- create an authoritarian regime playbook.
City of Washington DC quietly settles lawsuit with Police Sergeant who exposed department systematically misclassifying crimes
Your problem Mark is not that Democrats are all dishonest lying pieces of shit.
It is that you all are too stupid to realize the truth eventually becomes known.
…playbook, as mischaracterized by a d-bagging, bumfuzzled, manure-filled m👀k.
When I was going to school at Ft. Belvoir during the first year of the Reagan administration, some of the guys would go to 14th Street in DC to party. I went once and it was the most dystopian place I had ever seen. The hookers, pumps and drug dealers were more aggressive than Mexican timeshare salesmen in Cabo San Lucas.
Howard said...
When I was going to school at Ft. Belvoir during the first year of the Reagan administration, some of the guys would go to 14th Street in DC to party. I went once and it was the most dystopian place I had ever seen. The hookers, pumps and drug dealers were more aggressive than Mexican timeshare salesmen in Cabo San Lucas.
The only thing that separates the average criminal in DC from the average politician and political staffer is the class and ability of the latter to plan ahead a day or two.
That White collar crime needs to be punished more severely in this country should not be more obvious.
There's no crime problem so long as the "right" people aren't the victims. There isn't enough propaganda or propagandists to cover up the problem when the "right" people become victims.
“But the numbers!”
Figures don’t lie but liars can figure. The numbers were altered to hide the truth. This is yet another example of Larry’s First Law in action. Anything is possible if you lower your standards far enough.
"Stopping crime is fascist, and DC doesn't have a crime problem anyway, so there!"
If any breathing adult still thinks government produced data has not been 'fixed', call me. I'm sure I could sell you something.
@FormerLawClerk, when I saw your figure of 44% I about jumped out of my chair. A few mouse clicks later I discovered that you’re quite right. I remember when the black population of the District was closer to 80%!
Being unusually charitable today, I will assume that the commentators upthread are unaware that DC just settled with a whistleblowing former Metro police sergeant for exposing that her captain had directed her and the other police officers
In that district to improve the statistics by the simple expedient of reclassifying certain crimes as lesser offenses. For those following up on the story, the sergeant’s name is Charlotte Djossou.
NW used to be safe when NE and SE had horrible crime and murders. Now gentrification is being reversed. Black youts discovered they could get away with a lot in white areas if they didn't actually kill white people.
some journalists, a libtard pro-crime type, who was on BHTV got shot in DC in the chest at night. He cooperated with the mugger, but got shot just for the fun of it. Can't remember his name, Buelter maybe? Anyway, he made of point of not changing his beliefs after being shot.
Plus, Matt Yglesis supposedly got punched in the face while out walking in DC. So, I guess crime isn't all bad.
Brian Beutler - that was the guy. 2008. Good God has time flown!
There are precedents of handmade tales in sanctuary states, planned parenthood, transgender grooming, every child left behind, redistributive change schemes (e.g. shared responsibility, rent control), [catastrophic] [anthropogenic] climate change, phobias of all colors, JournoLism, etc., that warp time, space, perception, and statistics.
@Ralph L: "Black youts discovered they could get away with a lot in white areas if they didn't actually kill white people."
Check out Metro (WMATA) news on gate jumping over the last several years. During the COVID era and afterwards, some stations had 90%+ no-pay riders because of the waist-high pay gates. The WMATA then introduced higher barriers and placed police at many gates. "Arrests are made." Still, there are many gate doublers and jumpers. They are always always always from one racial group.
Georgetown and NW avoided the Metro lines and stations back in the planning era decades ago, and that area still has relatively low crime.
Cut Mark some slack. This blog is probably the only place he gets out of his bubble. I listened to NPR yesterday afternoon. They pounded on "the numbers are down".
ah beutler, they didn't punch him enough, all of the journolisters, in fact,
@Big Mike: "I saw your figure of 44% I about jumped out of my chair. A few mouse clicks later I discovered that you’re quite right. I remember when the black population of the District was closer to 80%!"
Gentrification has progressed across DC from west to east since the 1980s. NW/Georgetown was always ultra white. Now, black residents have been displaced all along the middle north-south strip from the zoo to downtown to Capitol Hill and in the southern Waterfront and Navy Yard areas. Waterfront and Navy Yard received a load of investment money and have many of the newest offices/residential building in the city.
The Nationals baseball park has many luxury apartments and condos next door, including some with field view patios. Crime is highest on the far east side and in the very poor region south of the Anacostia river. The downtown homeless and theft issues follow from Biden's pandering to the Woke and equity voters in response to George Floyd/BLM/TDS.
"DC just settled with a whistleblowing former Metro police sergeant for exposing that her captain had directed her and the other police officers
In that district to improve the statistics by the simple expedient of reclassifying certain crimes as lesser offenses. For those following up on the story, the sergeant’s name is Charlotte Djossou."
Funny, they didn't mention that on NPR.
I see the new troll trying to create a State of Fear about Trump using the argument that Trump is fomenting fear of crime in DC.
greg sargent is like mikey, and sort of stupid,
Is it anecdote if it's said by a journalist? Isn't that news?
..."Maybe Sidney Sweeney was a cultural moment that signals a turning point...."
Maybe even a pair of turning points.
It's amazing how the Democrats are selling out and just openly becoming pro-crime. "We have to defend the murderers and rapists!" they scream. "Mean Old Dicatator Trump wants to arrest these poor people who rape and murder and loot and burn! That's what dictators do! A free society means unlimited crime!"
Since when do we need to be mugged and have our wives and daughters raped in order to prove we are American? I'd like Mark and the rest of the left to explain why we are supposed to never do anything about crime, whether it's from their precious illegals, or their precious inner city Yutes.
Back when Guiliani ran NYC, he cleaned up the place and got crime way down.... and Democrats hated him for it. Why do they love crime and criminals so much?
I think there are places in this country - a few - where violent crime and property crime are worse than in DC, but Trump's focus on DC, where he has clear authority to act on these antisocial phenomena, accomplishes a few things:
1. It reinforces the fact that he continues to try to do the things voters elected him to do. Law and order was one of his platform planks and here he is, working on it.
2. It shows the country that we are done with Defund the Police - as we should be. Who are the brave social workers who are to be sent in unarmed to settle domestic disputes in the high-crime areas of any of our cities? Who was supposed to do that job?
3. It has a salubrious effect - we should all hope - on the culture of what should be a wonderful city. Just as New York enjoyed a renaissance in the years after Giuliani cracked down on all crime including those little irritating criminal acts that previously were ignored because they weren't seen as worth it, DC could become a place where people feel lively and confident as they freely walk around, instead of clinging to the walls with their eyes darting every which way.
But the fact that Trump didn't think it was Job 1 to deny that he's a dictator is more important than his trying to Make DC Great Again, to coin a phrase. You know, most people would just look at his actions - obeying laws, obeying court orders, going through proper channels, acting only on Constitutional authority - but for the left, he also has to be all "I am not a crook!" Sure, Ronald. That would work great. Trump could say, "Of course I am not a dictator," and your response would be, "AHA! You see?? He has to deny it in order to get away with it!"
Original Mike said...
I listened to NPR yesterday afternoon.
i recommend, that ALL of you (left/right/middle) listen to the current NPR. It's Really quite informative, interesting, and entertaining.
informative; in showing you HOW extremely slanted it is NOW.
interesting; in showing for bizarre the ideas they push are.
entertaining; in that it's far better to laugh, than to cry.
now, i'm sure some of you are going to say:
"big deal! i listened to NPR in the '80s, and it was slanted then too"
which is Why i think y'all NEED to listen to it today.
i WAS listening to it (in the '70s, '80s, '90s, aughts, teens)
and Yes, it WAS slanted then..
The current level of slant is at least an order of magnitude higher.
It's not just US Democrats who love, love, love crime. Look at what England allows to flourish in Rotherham. Or across Germany and France.
Yet not a single leftist criticizes what China does or North Korea. I would imagine unsanctioned crime in Pyongyang is not high, as they execute you rapidly. Sure, the crimes of the leftist regime are appalling (and no Democrat criticizes that, that I can tell), but you probably can walk the streets before curfew and with your papers....
But let Trump or anyone else start arresting the criminals, and its total freak out time. I see it happen within state government too.. "How DARE you suggest we arrest the drug dealers and homeless criminals! You MONSTER! You racist!!!!! REEEEEE!"
there is so much effort and profit in ruin, its quite extraordinary, and they masked it with the delta house follies, january 6th,
It really is amazing, gilbar. I listen to NPR occasionally in the modern era, but it is hard. I have a visceral reaction to biased news; makes me mad. But I learned something yesterday; now that I'm not paying for it, it didn't make me quite so angry.
ALL THINGS CONSIDERED earlier this week had a piece on:
EXPERTS: Why it is SO BAD that people no longer Trust Experts.
NPR had 2 NPR people interviewing each other
(THOSE were The Experts)
and while they mentioned that "people" no longer 'trust' "experts", they NEVER mentioned ANY Reason WHY people don't trust "experts"; just went On and On about how people SHOULD
it was Truly eye opening.. and Scary
but don't trust ME.. listen for yourself
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/08/nx-s1-5494569/how-a-distrust-of-experts-is-shaping-government-policy-under-trump
yes the invaders, al hijra want to pay the UK for Clive and the Mutiny or something, no one in fiction except stephen leather goes near this story,
Now that they've lost their funding, an important shift has happened with respect to NPR - and it's on the part of the listener. Formerly, when I listened to NPR it was always with a sense of deep disappointment and occsional outrage when I got the full dose of their bias, knowing how badly and how far down they had thrown themselves.
But now that they no longer receive taxpayer funding, my mindset has shifted. Now, they're a parody channel, an object lesson, and case of 'just desserts'. It's easier to listen to them now, with that outlook. They don't hear themselves, but at least they're going to starve doing it.
The screaming progressive liberal is running out of places to go now, places of comfort where they can stick their head in the sand, and that's a good thing. Reality is just around the corner, and it bites.
I liked keillors guy noir parody, and some other materials,
I was a religious All Things Considered listener back in the day. I've evolved. So has ATC.
you mean devolved,
all things considered, same with 'wait wait don't tell me'
Actually Leland, I was pointing out how Trump was grooming the Basket of Gulibles to eat out of his hands. Just admit it, a dictatorship wouldn’t be all that bad under Trump. Otherwise, you’re donning the blue jersey.
you look at london where the satrap khan has banned knives and guns, next stop passion fruit,
The 16.7% that were non-responsive in the survey cited by The Vault Dweller were likely dead.
If somebody wants facts and figures here ya go (Link to Steve Sailer post including the much shared graph of murder by race in DC from 1999 to 2024). Dead bodies are kinda hard to hide or mischaracterize so serve as a pretty good proxy for overall crime. Maybe 2024 is lower than the 1990s, or a bit lower than 2022 but still well above the early 2000s. And the racial distribution makes me think our lefties here are channeling Don Giuseppe from the Godfather, "They're animals anyway, so let them lose their souls."
The left, lie.
recall as we were all watching media footage of the masses of illegals flooding border. The Soviet-Democratic press insisted - our lying eyes!
Most secure border evvvah!
DC's crime problem is not the false data plugged in by the liar Soviets. It's day to day life - like most democratic run cities.
That said - the data that is real - is the data that tells the story of out of control crime. Soros demanded it and paid for it.
@Vance regarding global blue tolerance for urban crime.
This follows from relatively wealthy urban voters trying to atone for their wrongs and "be good" through shallow compassion and public virtue signalling. This is happening after the urban left's systematic destruction of traditional religions over the last several decades, and as new quasi-religious dogmas filled the vacuum.
You can live with old and imperfect religions for evermore, or you can try to destory the old ones only to have nutty knee-jerk new ones rise in their place.
Stalin, Mao, Women are identical to men, Transgenderism is not mostly mental illness, Systemic racism matters more than personal accomplishments or violent crime, etc.
why does Soros hate the west, the real life Blofeld, or the leader of Thrush, there is the question, we know how he bought off the intelligentsia after he was sanctioned for insider trading, unless that was part of the deal, in the first place I first heard of him when he was pushing for drug
legalization through his mouthpiece Ethan Nadleman,
"you mean devolved,"
The idea that evolution means improvement is not correct. Evolution is just change.
I guess I could have said "change".
"But the numbers!"
What are you going to trust- the numbers or your lying eyes?
2 car-jackings a day in DC.
To the Soviet-D's -this is fine.
Evolution is just change.
Show me the fitness function!
Progress is monotonic. Liberal is divergent. Conservative is moderate. Principles matter.
Last night on Gutfeld, Joe DeVito said Trump is going to save more DC black lives than BLM ever did.
RR
JSM
Neil Patel
@NeilPatelTDC
"The guy screaming “fascist” and hurling his sub sandwich at a rank-and-file cop just doing his job in DC was literally a DOJ Criminal Division employee — and the 'Free DC' activist group protesting Trump’s crime crackdown in the city is actually led by people with criminal records? This is all so bonkers, and yet so perfect.
Message to those running the Democrat Party: Normal people are not going to be on your side on any of this. The corporate media’s bogus reporting can no longer save you. Our national fever has broken, and you can’t bully people into accepting the insanity anymore. Thank God."
"@Big Mike: "I saw your figure of 44% I about jumped out of my chair. A few mouse clicks later I discovered that you’re quite right. I remember when the black population of the District was closer to 80%!""
Population down. Crime down.
I report, you decide.
if he was a little fatter, he would be played by will ferrell,
Whenever the black population of a city exceeds their overall population percentage, you get problems. If 12 percent of DC was black instead of 44 percent, the crime rate would plummet.
You know it, I know it, even Bob Dole knows it.
"Two people have been shot! Call a social worker!"
Defund the police reminds me of the old joke:
"Quick, get this man to a hospital!"
"But I'm a Christian Scientist!"
"Quick, get this man to a reading room!"
Remember Biden's turnaround from "Defund the police" to "Fund the police." That creature was utterly shameless.
Bowser has gone off to Martha's Vinyard for the rest of the Summer. She fights for her voters but prefers to do it from a distance..
I had an extremely liberal guest visit, who believes everything they say on MSNBC, and I suggested that we cross the border into Canada, Quebec, specifically, which is very close by, and enjoy a nice breakfast at a delightful little café I know, and he wouldn't cross into Canada because he did not want to deal with the "fascist border guards" coming back into the US. I think his real fear was to discover that he had been lied to as thoroughgoingly as Inga has been.
The left:
Personal anecdotes from locals = do not count!
Radical leftist basement dwelling opinions = count!
Whether crime in DC is "down" from some selected point in the past is irrelevant. Being a U.S. combat soldier in Vietnam was way "safer" than in WWII, but you still wouldn't exactly welcome the prospect of being drafted into the army circa 1968.
The question is whether DC crime is too high, and whether something can be done about it. Polls of DC residents suggest that crime there is way too high; and it's obvious that people generally (not just residents, but also commuters and actual or would-be visitors) perceive the district as being unsafe.
Unfortunately, all of our inner cities are significantly crime-ridden because urban spaces have been allowed to be taken over by homeless people, the mentally ill, drug users, etc.
Dem leaders generally don't want to do anything about it, not because they "love crime," but because everyone knows that the only solution to crime is prosecuting offenders and sending them to jail. But that would mean more black men in prison, which is something that black women, in particular, find more objectionable than high crime rates.
White liberals are also opposed to high rates of black male incarceration because it makes it hard to hold and to convince others of the belief that disparities in life outcomes for blacks and whites are due to events that happened centuries ago rather than events that are happening now.
In other words, the blowback Trump is getting from the left concerning urban crime is all about race.
But, in the year before Trump issued his takeover, attacks on people named Kyra Phillips had dropped 100%.
Dogma: at least here in DC, the homeless/mentally ill/druggie population looks like America. Mostly white males about my age (uh oh....). Getting them off the street would not be a racist or national-chauvinist exercise.
The violent crime though is mostly military-age black males shooting military-age black males. Trump, as a "do what works" guy, might be in a unique position to combine proactive enforcement of the criminal laws with a root-causes approach, such as job training or my two pet projects, Janissary Schools and Postmodern Homesteading.
I'm not familiar with the applicable law, but if fedgov can take over the DC police, maybe it can take over the DC public schools, for instance.
The anti-crime effort doesn't have to be either/or - it can be both/and. Trump as a guy who doesn't come from either camp could be the "and."
RR
JSM
Ronald and Mark,
If, at the end of Trump's takeover, murder in D.C. has dropped just 25%, what will you say about it?
Anyone who was in law enforcement in urban areas knows that the police are pressured to avoid charging certain offenses if possible. They look bad to the pols in charge.
Seemingly never mentioned either is that often people in these areas don't bother calling the police. Using myself as an example, years ago I had a night burglary to my vehicle while I was asleep. When I discovered it I didn't bother making a police report, knowing that the police would not process the car, and it would've been a waste of time.
Anyone who believes urban crime statistics are accurate "data" lives in a Leftist fantasy world. But you Leftists please continue advocating for the criminals.
"If, at the end of Trump's takeover, murder in D.C. has dropped just 25%, what will you say about it?"
Hell, if it saves one life, it's worth it!
Aren't liberals fond of that reasoning?
That Democrats would prefer a crime-ridden DC that they control to a safe DC that Trump runs, indicates that Lucifer is not the only one who prefers to rule in Hell than to serve in Heaven.
Oh, the vapors. Hang out in South Central sometime.
Trump, not that long ago was bringing attention to what it called a 25% drop in crime in DC just since they took over the government. And they credited that drop of crime to Trump.
And they said strong law enforcement is making the city safe again. So by their own measure, crime was dropping. And it's a little strange now for them to suddenly come back and say, wait, let's just forget what we said before.
"So by their own measure, crime was dropping."
Gee, it'd be a shame if it dropped some more, wouldn't it?
This democrat defense of criminality is a sight to behold.
Can't believe there's no mention of the Wire and their frequent use of the term "juking the stats". That's a time-honored tradition for failing cities!
OT:
I heard on a local news station that Gov. Polis was going to release 2.5 million for the wildfires.
Meanwhile – I heard from Barb Kirkmeyer – that Polis and the Dems have budgeted a yearly 50 million for free healthcare for illegal migrants.
priorities of horrible D's.
Kak - we heard you the first time ,the second time, the 3rd time.
Trump's mere existence lowers crime. Sorry that bothers you.
Reality - crime is off the charts in DC- and Trump is doing something about it.
Sorry that bothers you.
Actual NYT headline: with additional layered visuals.
Soviet Democrats and the Soviet NYT want to abolish the US Constitution.
Ah the numbers indeed. The D.C, Mayor's office says that the homicide rate is really down in the last couple of years so no help is needed. Yes it's down--from 42 homicides per 100,000 people to "just" 26 homicides per 100,000. Other capitol cities have homicide rates in the mid low single figures. The Police Union in DC says the statistics re declining crime rates are "cooked"--if not to say bogus. People in the street in DC experience the reality, no matter what the Mayor and her cronies say.
“ If, at the end of Trump's takeover, murder in D.C. has dropped just 25%, what will you say about it?”
Yancey, that’s the classic future-hypothetical trap — setting me up to bless the policy before there’s evidence, or look wrong later if the numbers drop for other reasons. The reality is, D.C.’s crime rate was already falling sharply without troops in the streets. If murders drop, I’ll want to know if it’s from a real plan — targeted policing, community trust, investigative work — or just a lucky trend hijacked for political credit. Otherwise, we’ve let a power grab masquerade as a crime-fighting strategy.
"The reality is, D.C.’s crime rate was already falling sharply without troops in the streets."
Nobody's buying this.
Jeremy--"Hamsterdam."
Yancey, that’s the classic future-hypothetical trap — setting me up to bless the policy before there’s evidence, or look wrong later if the numbers drop for other reasons.
Nice cop-out, Chuckie-Boy. How about--"Sure, I'll eat crow if that happens, but it's never going to happen." You'd still be wrong, but not a total weasel.
What "other reasons" would cause crime to drop by 25%? Another covid shutdown? A nuke? A revival of spanking as a disciplinary method?
Original Mike, Nobody’s buying it in Trumpland because fear is cheaper than facts — and nobody there sees it as an authoritarian move. But could anyone in Trumpland even pause to consider that it just happened to pull the cameras and conversations away from Epstein, the Big Ugly Bill, prices skyrocketing, and a pathetic July job growth?
Kyra Phillips isn't buying it.
Boat guy, plenty of “other reasons” have caused big crime drops in U.S. cities — targeted gang takedowns, new local leadership, community policing programs, economic shifts, even seasonal patterns. D.C.’s numbers were already falling sharply before the Guard rolled in, so if we see another 25%, it makes sense to look at all the factors before giving one man the credit.
And yet, crime stats aren’t a subscription service — they stay true whether Kyra Phillips “buys” them or not.
"Yancey, that’s the classic future-hypothetical trap...."
Sounds like a standard non-engaging setup for a future evasion to me. Why not tell us what will convince you that this plan is working, and why not start by recommending that the cooked books be corrected to a DOJ-approved reporting baseline? You know - just to keep it all on the up-and-up, and according to Hoyle?
isn't it NEAT?
when, out of the blue, a poster shows up;
and his posts are surprisingly viciously anti-Trump?
when i don't remember EVER seeing a port from them before..
but ALL Sudden like, they're posting 10 times a day (or more), and Every Post is a democrat talking point?
out of curiosity Ronald J. Ward? who are you? and where have you been?
I'm guessing that you're a "life long Republican"?
that just HAD To speak up, about How Horrible Trump is
i decided to go, and look.. Looks like i found out!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_James_Ward
Gilbar, not a “sudden Democrat,” just someone who believes results and facts matter — call it anti-bad-policy if you like.
Aggie, you seem to want me to grade the term paper for proof before it’s written.
OK, 26 homicides per year per 100,00 (one every other day) is just peachy. Got it.
D.C.’s numbers were already falling
Repeating the same lie that so many people have already debunked including the original post doesn’t make you seem smart. It makes you inauthentic. You are free to do it, and even think it is working on achieving your goal. It tells us that your ability to lie lacks restraint.
"...Aggie, you seem to want me to grade the term paper for proof before it’s written... "
No, that's not it at all. I challenged you to describe what success in your mind would look like, and you chose not to, which is an evasion: Criticizing the actions of Trump without taking a stake on your own values, staying safe way up in the bleachers. Those are Bad Faith arguments, mate. You're a phoney.
Leland, I’m not repeating a “lie” — I’m pointing to publicly available crime data showing violent crime in D.C. has been falling for months before the Guard deployment. Debating whether that trend is meaningful or whether it justifies extreme measures is fair; dismissing the numbers outright as a “lie” isn’t. If we want an honest discussion, let’s stick to documented facts and context, not labels.
“Trump, not that long ago was bringing attention to what it called a 25% drop in crime in DC just since they took over the government. And they credited that drop of crime to Trump.
And they said strong law enforcement is making the city safe again. So by their own measure, crime was dropping.”
Trump says…
Never mind!
Aggie, in my view, Trump is a master showman — tossing out stink bombs, fanning the smoke into a five-alarm fire, and then taking credit for saving the building while often walking away with the loot. That’s exactly how I see the D.C. operation: a stepping stone for more smoke to advance authoritarian goals.
But that’s my opinion, not fact. On measurable terms, I’m not evading — success would look like sustained drops in violent crime, verified by independent, DOJ-approved reporting, alongside improved community trust and effective investigations. I’ll stake my view on facts, not fear or political theater.
I’m pointing to publicly available crime data
Even that is a lie. You provided no source. You never mentioned a source. You simply say it is available. If you pointed to the source, everyone would be able to determine the credibility of your source, and the whole topic is the authoritative data you likely depend on is fraudulent. We know this because the people that committed the fraud are being punished and the whistleblower just got a large settlement.
https://freebeacon.com/crime/a-dc-police-sergeant-exposed-her-superiors-for-misclassifying-crimes-to-make-stats-look-low-the-city-just-quietly-settled-her-lawsuit/
If you want to claim the DC crime statistics are "documented", you need to address charges such as this: A DC Police Sergeant Exposed Her Superiors for Misclassifying Crimes To Make Stats Look Low. The City Just Quietly Settled Her Lawsuit., which you appear to have steadfastly ignored.
Leland, et al, you’re correct that there have been legitimate concerns about crime data integrity in D.C., such as the MPD whistleblower case where some crimes were allegedly misclassified, and the city quietly settled the lawsuit. That’s an important caveat.
That said, the broader trends are well-documented and supported by multiple sources: DOJ data show violent crime in D.C. fell 35% in 2024, including a 32% drop in homicides, 39% drop in robberies, and 53% drop in carjackings according to justice.gov. Year-to-date 2025 data show violent crime down 26% and homicides down 11% compared to the same period last year per mpdc. Independent verification confirms that violent crime is at the lowest levels in decades.
So while it’s fair to scrutinize data collection, the overall trend — a sustained drop in violent crime — is real. Acknowledging reporting flaws doesn’t negate the broader, verifiable decrease in crime.
Where does the DOJ get its numbers. I imagine they get them from the DC police. Do you have knowledge to the contrary?
"and why not start by recommending that the cooked books be corrected"
You might as well advocate for eliminating voting fraud while you're at it, for all the good it'd do.
Because neither are going to happen as long as the left has anything to say in the matter.
I still want to know why a murder every other day is acceptable.
@Ronald J Ward: "Acknowledging reporting flaws doesn’t negate the broader, verifiable decrease in crime."
DC has become ever more white and ever less black. Then, check out the national rates for black versus white crime. This is the main story and the only real story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Washington,_D.C.
The government has reported raw numbers because many people don't want to show the horrifying percentage differences; they make you do the math yourself...
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/tables/table-43
" there have been legitimate concerns about crime data integrity in D.C."
Every metric that has been devised to measure the success or failure of our government has been completely corrupted by the employees of that government.
It starts with crime statistics, but that's not where it ends. Jobs data, unemployment, virtually every economic measurement done by the government, immigration statistics - YOU NAME IT.
You cannot trust ANY of these numbers because you can't trust the people GIVING you those numbers. They have a VESTED INTEREST in looking good.
Why, we might run their asses right out of town if these numbers don't look good, so of course they're going to fuck with these numbers to make it look good. We might do worse. Historically, some of them would get hung if the numbers weren't right.
Stop TRUSTING your government and your elections: It's all fake.
"Independent verification confirms that violent crime is at the lowest levels in decades."
You do know you have to back that up, right? What "independent verification" are you claiming?
I just learned that in DC, when the crime is committed by a juvenile, it doesn't count as a "crime" in the DC crime stats, except in those rare cases where the juvenile is prosecuted as an adult. But if a group of 15 year olds rape or carjack someone, that's not a "crime" for the purposes of DC stats.
Their stats are a joke.
Acknowledging reporting flaws doesn’t negate the broader, verifiable decrease in crime.
As you continue the lie because you haven't provided verifiable crime statistics. None. As Original Mike asks, what is the source of your data. Quoting DOJ numbers that are based on fraudulent data submitted by DC, doesn't verify anything. Here's the DOJ from 10 days ago: https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/fbi-releases-2024-reported-crimes-in-the-nation-statistics
"The FBI’s crime statistics estimates, based on reported data"
Where does that come from? The FBI uses data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Did you know the published Homicide data in May of this year. You wrote:
"DOJ data show violent crime in D.C. fell 35% in 2024"
The BJS latest dataset published in May 2025 is for year 2023. So where does your 2024 data come from? And wait, you also wrote:
"Year-to-date 2025 data show violent crime down 26% and homicides down 11% "
Where does that data come from? Did you verify the source as I did?
As I said, you are still lying. It is all you seem to do.
BTW, you might not have "click for more" on this post. Even Althouse is calling BS on this nonsense:
"But the numbers!"
And you come in the comment section and continue to make a fool of yourself and of the Democrat Party. I don't mind. I hope you continue. Rusty already warned you, but you refused to listen.
Mike, I asked Albert Ingles (aka “AI”) and Albert says; “ 2
2024: Crime Remains on Downward Trend - St. Louis Metropolitan ...
The year-to-date (YTD) crime comparison for 2025 shows a significant decline in violent crime, including homicides and property crimes, compared to both the same period in 2024 and pre-pandemic (2019) levels, with significant drops in car thefts, motor vehicle thefts, burglaries, and robberies being reported across many U.S. cities. While most crimes have fallen, domestic violence and drug offenses have remained steady or seen slight increases in some areas.”
Don’t trust Albert? Fair enough, Albert needs factchecking himself.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/violent-crime-dc-hits-30-year-low
https://time.com/7309133/dc-crime-stats-trump-national-guard/
https://www.factcheck.org/2025/08/trump-distorts-violent-crime-statistics-in-ordering-takeover-and-troops-to-d-c/
https://mpdc.dc.gov/page/district-crime-data-glance
https://stateline.org/2025/07/24/violent-crime-continues-to-drop-across-us-cities-report-shows/
But I do get it — the whistleblower story is dramatic, and it makes for a good Eureka moment. But cherry-picking one incident doesn’t erase years of independent data showing violent crime in D.C. has been falling sharply. Let’s judge trends by the full picture, not by the most sensational exception.
"I still want to know why a murder every other day is acceptable."
Because Trump. Simple as that.
The left stepping on another rake.
If they could simply keep their mouths shut on the basic 80/20 issues, they wouldn't have to deflect and project their insanity onto us when we start laughing at them.
But, they can't. They just can't admit Trump might be right on ANY issue. Or at least not scream out in defiance of common sense when he makes a move.
So, rake-stepping it is.
Please continue.
I can't believe this is the hill they want to die on.
Good on her.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/violent-crime-dc-hits-30-year-low
There's a link to the data:
https://mpdc.dc.gov/page/district-crime-data-glance
But the guy that generated that data just got put on administrative leave as the Union has called that specific data fraudulent. So when our liar writes:
"But I do get it — the whistleblower story is dramatic, and it makes for a good Eureka moment. "
He doesn't want to admit that the whistleblower story is from 2020. She just got a settlement this year.
Police Commander Michael Pulliam however was put on leave in July of this year. https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/dc-police-commander-suspended-crime-statistics/3959566/
They are two different stories of fraud at MPD, but the DOJ data from 3 January 2025, according the MPD Union, is fraudulent: "The union claims police supervisors in the department manipulate crime data to make it appear violent crime has fallen considerably compared to last year."
You are literally relying on the very data that the DC police themselves say is fraudulent. And because you have to lie about it, you fraudulently claim this has nothing to do with the data you rely on by pointing to a different story about a whistleblower that dates back to 2020.
If, at the end of Trump's takeover, murder in D.C. has dropped just 25%, what will you say about it?
That it would've happened anyway no matter what Trump did.
Leland, I see what you’re pointing out — there are two separate issues at MPD. The 2020 whistleblower case, which I referenced, exposed misclassification and was settled this year. The July 2025 administrative leave of Commander Pulliam involves separate concerns about data integrity.
That said, the DOJ and multiple independent sources continue to report that violent crime in D.C. remains on a downward trend, with 2024 seeing the lowest violent crime levels in decades, and year-to-date 2025 continuing the decline.
Isolated controversies or administrative actions don’t erase the broader, verifiable trends. It’s fair to scrutinize the data, but cherry-picking specific events to dismiss the full picture misrepresents what’s happening on the ground.
You really think those sources are independent, Ronald? I picked one, the factcheck.org article. References back to the DC police data are sprinkled throughout it. In fact, it's hard for me to imagine where independent numbers would come from.
We often joke that Trump could cure cancer and the left would bitch about it. Look no further than this thread for proof.
Our newest, non-stop blathering leftist troll would trot out some discredited study and claim cancer rates were already falling, so why did Trump have to do anything?
Why bother engaging in someone so dishonest?
"Why bother engaging in someone so dishonest?"
The only winning move is not to play.
I know.
I understand the concern about relying on sources that reference MPD data. Even accounting for potential reporting issues, multiple independent sources — including the DOJ, academic crime studies, and cross-city longitudinal analyses — confirm that violent crime in D.C. has been declining sharply in 2024 and year-to-date 2025.
The key point is trends, not absolutes. Isolated controversies, administrative leaves, or misclassifications don’t erase the fact that violent crime is down compared to previous years. Cherry-picking these events to dismiss the full picture misrepresents the reality on the ground.
That said, I get why some insist that crime has “spiked” — it’s the very premise used to justify a military presence in D.C. Without the perception of a crisis, the narrative doesn’t hold. This isn’t the first time we’ve seen exaggerated claims: record inauguration attendance, claims of widespread voter fraud — it’s all part of a pattern of framing the story in a way that amplifies perception over reality.
By the way, what were those July job numbers again? 2 million? 2.5 million?
Rare and safe doesn't mean what they allege it means. #HateLovesAbortion
"multiple independent sources — … — confirm"
You have demonstrated no such thing. You simply declare it, time and time again.
"Why bother engaging in someone so dishonest?"
I just scroll right by our newest incarnation of Chuck. If we could see right through his dishonesty before he was banned what kind of un self aware maroon would think they would slip by now.
For starters, this ain’t my first rodeo. I’ve probably been banned from more blogs than most of you have even visited. Let’s cut to the chase.
I gave five links — not good enough. An AI-generated summary — still not good enough. I suggested other ways to verify the data — you didn’t even try. This is a classic case of intellectual channeling: defending the story, not examining the facts. At this point, there’s nothing I can show you that will matter, because the narrative is what counts.
Here’s the deal: the problem isn’t source credibility — it’s the underlying narrative. Claiming D.C. is a violent-crime crisis is the very premise justifying troops in the streets. If the numbers show crime is falling, the whole story collapses. DOJ reports, city stats, independent studies — none of it matters if it undermines the fear that props up the policy. It’s political theater masquerading as public safety.
And while we’re at it, those July job numbers — 6.7 million? Or was it 2.5? Maybe they’ll just stop reporting them altogether. Can’t have reality getting in the way of all the “winning,” right?
"I gave five links — not good enough. "
You could have 500 links. The numbers in them are not independent. They stem from the same source.
You're not a scientist, are you Ronald?
“ You could have 500 links”
Hold your cards everyone, I think we have a BINGO!
I’m pretty sure that’s pretty much exactly what I said.
"By the way, what were those July job numbers again?"
Loser on one topic, so now you want to talk about another topic in which a person was fired for making up data?
"For starters, this ain’t my first rodeo.
No doubt, but you still suck at it.
"Here’s the deal: the problem isn’t source credibility — it’s the underlying narrative. "
Your narrative is pointless because it is incredulous.
"I gave five links"
falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus
If Bob uses a radar gun to measure the speed of a pitch during a baseball game, five different people ask him "How fast was it"? and you ask each of those people what they were told, that doesn't count as five independent measurements of the speed of the pitch.
"You're not a scientist, are you Ronald?"
Climate scientist, maybe.
I can tell you from bitter personal experience that crime statistics in Massachusetts have been fake since at least the pandemic. I've had a police officer tell me, to my face, "we have orders not to enforce that law" (with regard to underage pot using AND selling), and I have seen police simply not bother to forensically analyze a phone to figure out who sold a fatal fentanyl dose: "they all use Snapchat and it's not worth trying to get that information," and to wait 30 days before looking at a doorbell camera so that any video had been overwritten.
The classification and reporting of crimes--even deaths--is fake exactly for the purpose of creating happy-looking 'statistics' to show how safe and wonderful our town and state are.
None of this will be fixed until the entire management layer of law enforcement is removed and replaced by experienced front-line people, and that's not ever going to happen without some kind of federalization / martial law / takeover. It's very sad that things have come to this point, and very dangerous, but in the end the country is not going to survive with the complete corruption of these institutions, so the risk of using extraordinary means of fixing them seems to be worth taking. Chemotherapy is essentially drinking poison, but sometimes the only way to survive is to drink that poison.
"By the way, what were those July job numbers again?"
Loser on one topic, so now you want to talk about another topic in which a person was fired for making up data?
Oh no no no Leland, you seem to be trying to convince others that you don’t get it at all while you’re actually arguing with someone that only exist in your head, rent free at that.
I’m trying to (actually did) draw a parallel of the job number lie with the D.C. crime rate lie. If the D.C. crime rate claim comes up short, the ground under your feet for justification crumbles. Likewise, if his lie of “rigged job numbers” is exposed, the emperor stands naked. It means the job numbers pretty much sucked, as statistics show.
So enlighten me, what were those job numbers?
If the D.C. crime rate claim comes up short, the ground under your feet for justification crumbles.
No, no it doesn't. You keep referring to a percent change in the DC violent crime rate. As an example, the last of your links points to an aggregate drop of 17% in homicide rate over 42 cities and 6 years. Taking a look at DC by itself, the decrease in homicide over that period is 1%, according to the Council on Criminal Justice report that your link uses as its source (which also relies heavily on DC Metro stats like everything else, as discussed at length here). One percent.
But let's say the violent crime rate overall in DC really did fall 30% or whatever it was from its most recent high (which I think was 2023, but every time I switch windows to refer to a source, my phone erases my comment here for some reason, so I may be wrong about that year and WILL NOT check). It's still very unacceptably high. If 30% lower than an epically terrible number remains a terrible number, the percent drop does not constitute "end of crisis." It is still a crisis.
"It is still a crisis."
The crisis is that the Democrats are not currently in charge, unable to continue with "Business as Usual", are seeing the results of their prior actions being made public and normal people are starting to notice.
Please, Ann, all balls can be associated with dance, even those balls called testes that are contained in the male scrotum, whenever a male animal dances to music in a ballroom.
Wear your mask. Get your shot. Crime is down. NYC will be underwater by 1999. And watch out for that Y2K thing.
Were serious.
I’m trying to (actually did) draw a parallel of the job number lie with the D.C. crime rate lie.
Yeah, I noticed the parallel: another topic in which a person was fired for making up data
Please botfly, find the right post to comment under.
Ronald J. Ward said...
Leland, I see what you’re pointing out — there are two separate issues at MPD. The 2020 whistleblower case, which I referenced, exposed misclassification and was settled this year. The July 2025 administrative leave of Commander Pulliam involves separate concerns about data integrity.
That said, the DOJ and multiple independent sources continue to report that violent crime in D.C. remains on a downward trend, with 2024 seeing the lowest violent crime levels in decades, and year-to-date 2025 continuing the decline.
So you know the data is fraudulent.
And you continue to cite it.
You just can't make up this level of stupid.
> You just can't make up this level of stupid
No, indeed you can't. But what makes you think that's what it is, rather than deliberate, knowing, dishonest repetition?
Wilber: you are now part of the problem and should report the car break-in if you don't want to keep being part of the problem. I wonder if Kyra Phillips reported her victimization and how many of her lefty friends reported theirs. I'd like her to have the courage to do some ethical reporting. Here's some government facts: DC had the highest gun homicide rate among blacks in the U.S. in 2023. Black people make up 43% of DC's population but accounted for 97% of all gun homicides in 2023. The gun homicide rate among black residents rose by 81% between 2019 and 2023. Does that in some sicko way please Freder and Mark? Trump alone is doing something to save black lives -- besides planting a little yard sign in the front of one's pricey brownstone or Victorian house.
DC needs some dedicated citizens and retired cops to write the types of crime blogs that are unique to Chicago: Second City Cop, Martin Prieb, Hey Jacka**, Chicago Contrarian, and Crime in Wrigleyville and Boystown (CWB).
If you wish to understand crime statistics and how they are manipulated, you have to read Steve Sailer.
Ronald: how many dead black youths would satisfy you? Jesus wept, this is one city and only the homicides, not all the shootings, and not all the other murders and assaults. Go national, and the entire decades of the lynching era is a flyspeck on the wall, horrific as it was, compared with the dead, virtually all black bodies piling up in our cities now.
Crime stats began rising around 1963-5. Unfortunately, the feds have limited data from that time. But if you want an accurate picture, you need to start with the Seventies and proceed to today, realizing that reporting agencies have participated in different ways during this time-frame.
In other words, do the work or shut your ignorant yob.
Leland, are you seriously considering a Trump White House report as a credible and trustworthy source? And are you admitting to buying into the utter nonsense that McEntarfer was fired for “rigging” the numbers to make Trump “look bad”?
Because if so, I most certainly apologize for any attempts of any reasonable discussion with you.
Tina, I’m not quite sure the need of a history lesson. Perhaps you’re saying the government should have sent the military to take over selective local governments years ago?
I think our recent arrival needs the Cedarford Protocol applied.
Cedarford, for those who weren't here at the time, was almost certainly a moby, posing as a virulently antisemitic right-winger; but the real problem was his derailing of threads by the sheer volume of argumentation he produced.
So the protocol evolved as this: whenever Cedarford appeared *one person* would respond with an objection, just so that newcomers wouldn't think that Silence Means Agreement. But after that -- ignore him.
not to mention anyone by name..
but When someone BRAGS:
"I’ve probably been banned from more blogs than most of you have even visited."
it's a pretty good guess that there is a Good Reason.
there's a saying about meeting assholes all day, and what that means
I like your proposal Kirk.
Nobody should be defending this.
"But after that -- ignore him."
Ignore who?
Ronald, these are not crime statistics "from" the White House. They are from a CDC report that uses data from other government agencies, and they are accurate and reflect the cultural shifts in crime in other big cities, while considering the demographic changes in those cities and how they impact crime. Yes, I think there have been many instances when federal forces should have been called in to quell violence and rioting. Because I give more of a damn about the innocents forced to live in those places than I give a damn about ideologically opposing Trump.
And to deny the existence of a crime victim is a sick, sick thing to do.
Once you've confirmed that the arguments are in Bad Faith, there is no further reason for attention, as holding your attention is the point of the exercise - and one can do that for oneself, in more interesting and fulfilling ways.
If crime is truly dropping, I’ll welcome it — but the key is independent, transparent verification. The problem is, when MPD, DOJ, and fact-checkers all point to a decline, suddenly none of them are ‘independent.’ Yet when Trump alone says ‘25% down,’ that’s taken as gospel. That tells me this isn’t really about crime numbers, it’s about preserving a crisis narrative so troops and politics can be justified. Fear needs the numbers to look worse — so any data that contradicts it gets dismissed as fraudulent.
Cedarford Protocol it is.
That’s actually a good strategy. When you’re getting your ass kicked, stay down.
"In fact, it's hard for me to imagine where independent numbers would come from.
There aren't any others, Mike- all of the RJW's "independent" analyses rest entirely on data collected by the D.C. police forces and D.A. offices- including federal DoJ, who get their data, wait for it, from surveys from the D.C. police and government.
However, here is the dirty little secret about D.C.'s improved violent crime statistics over the last 30 years- all of it is exactly what someone could have predicted would happen if asked following hypothetical in 1995: what would you predict would happen to violent crime statistics in D.C. if almost half the black population were replaced with whites, asians, and hispanics?
It works the same way with climate science:
Step 1. Determine what results you want.
Step 2. Determine how to collect (or manipulate) the data to satisfy Step 1.
Referenced earlier was The Wire, where David Simon, a former crime beat writer, depicted the Baltimore mayor, who Simon said was based on Martin O'Malley, juking the crime stats. O'Malley later ran for the D nomination for POTUS and participated in D debates. No other candidate ever brought it up in the debates. Never could figure out why but I think Ronnie has the answer: all the Ds juke their crime statistics, it's just how it's done.
Ronald Ward has levelled a physical threat against me, Altnouse. Does that fit your definition of good faith?
There are 184 comments here. If one of them is a threat of physical violence, I'll delete it, but you haven't quoted it or linked to it. I see you have a lot of back and forth with that commenter. Spare me that "Does that fit your definition of good faith?" and say exactly what you think is bad faith. I don't like personal back and forth. My instructions say "Don't fight with each other." You violated that yourself.
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