Writes Maureen Dowd, in "Criminal Fights Crime" (NYT).
The final line is: "Even if Trump is being diabolical, Democrats should not pretend everything is fine here. Because it’s not."
I like to think the Democrats need to offer solutions, not just admit that there are problems. Of course, it's awful to deny that the problems are really that bad or that we deserve the problems or that side effects of solving the problems are worse than the problems. But assuming Democrats admit there is a terrible problem — and Dowd is only denying that "everything is fine" — they seem to want to focus on how bad Trump's solutions are. He's reaching out solving problems like mad, almost like a challenge on "The Apprentice," where there was always a severe time crunch and points were given for taking action... bigly.
So what's the right solution? If Democrats don't have a better solution... well, maybe they will get away with that. First, do no harm. That's a standard wise position to take. And Democrats do get elected, over and over, in the cities with the worst crime. Why change what's been working... especially when you can't think of any way to do better than Trump? Stand back, let him do the dirty work, in his crazed enthusiasm, keep deploring him, and prepare to reclaim power over the improved city he will return to your safekeeping.
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Uh, the Democrats don't want to do anything about crime. Or rather they don't want to do the only thing that will stop crime, and that is punishing criminals and hiring more police.
They want to, and have been doing, the exact opposite. Defunding the police, refusing to convict criminals, and letting them out on minimal or even zero bail. Their standard tactics are to (1) Deny crime is a problem (2) call Republicans racists (3) demand gun control and (4) assert we need to address the "Root causes".
What is their motivation? You tell me. Its not "compassion" because they show zero "compassion" when the criminals are J6ers, Rightwingers, whites, or Trump supporters.
So Democrats are elected in blue cities because they are exceptionally incompetent?
Dowd is your typical upper class libtard. When it was someone else aka "the Lower classes" getting robbed raped and murdered, well who cares? But when her sister, HER SISTER, is a victim, well crime really is out of control.
Of course playing hypocrisy bingo with libtards means you win everytime. The problem of big city crime is long standing, and there's zero desire in blue cities to change it. The change in DC came from Republican Trump. Once he leaves, it will go back to where it was.
Libtards love crime. And will bitch and moan when it hits them personally, but have zero desire to fight it. They'd rather accept it, or run away.
The percentage of registered voters that vote in large cities is often abysmally low. Couple that with (almost) monolithic union vote and you have your answer. I lived in NYC for 40+ years and the quality of candidates declined substantially over the years. The City Council was composed of loons, the degree of lunacy was the only difference among members. Every once in a while you had a decent mayor but the standard candidate was piss poor and people just stopped voting in local elections.
and prepare to reclaim power over the improved city he will return to your safekeeping.
And moving homeless people to God knows where with no real plan for addressing the root problems, have masked and armed thugs, and the military, under the color of law, roaming the streets meting out justice is going to improve the city exactly how.
These "solutions" are reminiscent of the underpants gnomes.
"rash of brazen car thefts by teenagers." Perhaps the problem might be more helpfully addressed if we did not keep using code words for the perpetrators.
At least Dowd reported the truth and the NYT published it,
The larger issue is that the Dems created today’s DC and should be removed from power.
Why would any decent person vote Dem?
LOL
"And will bitch and moan when it hits them personally..."
If stolen cars are worth writing about, Miss Maureen will never run out of column topics. Oh- but it was her sister who was the victim this time? That's different.
Maureen Dowd's racism is sickening. She should be whipped through the streets on a boombox.
Ann:
The Dems have no solutions because their people are the ones committing the crimes. It’s all about tribal politics. Just look at the Twin Cities.
Freder, if you think the homeless are going to improve your town you can always petition to have them shipped right to you.
The meme of "if I've lost Cronkite" has been dead for some time, but watching MSNBC and now the NYT surrender to President Trump's approach indicates exactly how bad crime in the DC area actually is.
"Stand back, let him do the dirty work, in his crazed enthusiasm, keep deploring him, and prepare to reclaim power over the improved city he will return to your safekeeping."
That is exactly their plan. And it will work, too, because their voters are idiots.
The age of 12 or 13 to be the cutoff for charging a person as an adult.
The Dem culture has robbed children of their childhood so society might as well start acting like it.
"Freder, if you think the homeless are going to improve your town you can always petition to have them shipped right to you."
If the left wants to complain when anyone tries to do something about crime and the homeless, well... let them.
Maureen Dowd is a fictional character, once she fancied herself a charming scribe, and occasionally stumbled into the truth, see Biden's plagiarism, but she segued into Mean Girl territory, some time in the 90s, also she trafficked in garbage like Kitty Kelley's trash,
I bet Dowd’s sister will end up paying those tickets!
Amy Wax got turned in, at a Glenn Loury talk deploring the number of black males in prison, for raising her hand and saying that she thought that more blacks ought to be in jail.
Loury turned her in. He was more leftist back then.
this would be the way they would write her character anyways,
Even Modo can figure out that crime is bad. Although it took her sister getting screwed over to hammer the point home.
Dowd's obsessive fixation on hating Trump is butt-ugly.
Der Haß is häßlich!
Stolen car chases are great YouTube entertainment, particularly in Arkansas, Georgia and Florida, where a 160mph rollover into a tree is the frequent result. Then you get your car back. Avoiding 160mph car chases is the position of lesser jurisdictions like DC.
...she found an odoriferous collection: half-eaten pizza, grape soda cans, fast-food wrappers, a used condom...
"One unused prophylactic. One soiled."
Jupiter said...
Maureen Dowd's racism is sickening.
Want some of that DRAAANK, some of that purple DRAAANK?
"And moving homeless people to God knows where with no real plan for addressing the root problems,"
LOL. Root problems. As if Freder has a clue how to address the root problems.
Got her car stolen... affirmative action.
Wasn't Dowd's father a DC cop? Doesn't she have a conservative brother named Kevin? These familial factors are in play. I can't wait to read about her next Thanksgiving.
David
My thought too. An ordinary person would most definitely have to pay those tickets. "it's your car, isn't it?"
But her sister, modo, has the power to raise a public stink on a national level.
I'd bet a dollar or two the fines are dropped on appeal.
If so, we'll never hear of it.
I wonder if one could claim on insurance?
John Henry
even as a fictional candidate, perhaps like a dc version of a heather, her insights are not interesting,
"And moving homeless people to God knows where with no real plan for addressing the root problems, have masked and armed thugs, and the military, under the color of law, roaming the streets meting out justice is going to improve the city exactly how[?]"
Is this a joke? Getting the homeless, the mentally ill, the drug abusers, and garden-variety criminal predators out of urban, public spaces is a positive good, even if it doesn't address "root causes." Law-abiding citizens should be able to go into the subway, public parks, public libraries, etc., without fear of being accosted or even victimized by the dregs of society.
Some, Select [Black] Lives Matter. Also, Critical Diversity Theory and DEIst quotas for equitable inclusion are a left-wing compulsion.
"Law-abiding citizens should be able to go into the subway, public parks, public libraries, etc., without fear of being accosted or even victimized by the dregs of society."
Nope. Because some people have problems we must all suffer. Because it's our fault. Somehow.
So Democrats are elected in blue cities because they are exceptionally incompetent?
@J, are they incompetent? Doesn’t it depend on what their goals are? Tell me, if the Democrats had a goal of supporting criminals and increasing, what precisely would they do differently? Note that gun control regulations does nothing to keep guns out of the hands of criminals, who are nearly always using illegally-acquired firearms,* but it does prevent honest citizens from firing back.
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* Sometimes the firearms themselves are illegal — I’m aware of at least two driveby shootings in DC that used fully automatic AK-47 assault weapons.
Maureen Dowd is in no danger of a similar theft.
Nobody is interested in joyriding a walker.
"only" 5100 cars stolen in DC in 2024 down 25% from 23 so it's all good.
If each of those 5m cars racks up $1m in fines that is $5,000,000 in revenue to DC.
They have a positive financial interest in encouraging theft.
John Henry
not in the alice in wonderland world of ngo's therapeutic and otherwise, haunted by the spectre of r d laing, the crazy are the ones who understand,
From the left/MSM I learned the border was secure even as videos showed thousands crossed our border daily.
From the left/MSM I learned the economy was fine, just fine, even as my money bought less and less.
Now, from the left/MSM I learn that crime is down.
Well thank goodness.
So I ignore the (obviously) fake news of downgrading of sentences to misdemeanors. The DC police official under investigation for cooking the books. The myriad tales of people victimized by crime being told don't bother reporting...
Sure cant wait to hear from the left/MSM the other ways I didn't know I have it so good.
Feh.
Try to imagine a Trump solution and action to any problem which Democrats would support, any problem no matter how serious, and regardless of how obviously effective the action would be.
Remember, they opposed the vaccine for a disease they believed was killing millions right up until it was no longer under his control, then it became mandatory and worth letting you die if you refused. Only an idiot would vote Democrat.
the chocolate rations have increased, do you doubt me citizen,
This will help too.
Trump Administration Brags They’ve Cut DC Carry Permit Issue Times From Months to Days
https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/concealed-carry/trump-administration-brags-theyve-cut-dc-carry-permit-issue-times-from-months-to-days/
"So what's the right solution? If Democrats don't have a better solution... well, maybe they will get away with that. First, do no harm. That's a standard wise position to take. And Democrats do get elected, over and over, in the cities with the worst crime. Why change what's been working...".
Conveniently ignoring that little "do no harm" bit. The left's solutions (Hey we are still in office. We are still reaping the rewards. We are still gaining power!) . For those the Dems claim to be helping there is harm a plenty...
Currently, Los Angeles is kicking homeless off the streets and throwing away anything they can't carry with them on the way out. At least they are on Venice Beach and Santa Monica. Endless videos are being posted on YouTube.
I thought “defund the police” was their solution.
I know they can’t tolerate the idea of incarceration. Unless, of course, we’re talking about their political opponents.
"have masked and armed thugs, and the military, under the color of law, roaming the streets meting out justice is going to improve the city exactly how"?
The armed and masked thugs are the reason why the military is there.
"with no real plan for addressing the root problems"
The inability to connect the proliferation of masked gunmen with the appearance of the military leaves little hope that the root problem will be correctly identified, never mind addressed.
The problem is that blacks are disproportionately responsible for crime in cities. Enforcing criminal laws therefore disproportionately impacts blacks. This is obviously a result of systemic racism to liberals because they refuse to accept that blacks are more likely to commit crimes. The solution is to not enforce criminal law which leads to more crime, but to a supposed reduction in crime rates reported.
These "solutions" are reminiscent of the underpants gnomes.
Your team has had control of most big cities for generations. The underpants gnomes can't cover up for Muriel Bowser and the rest of the miscreants who let lawlessness continue without any attempt at intervention. The story here in Minneapolis in recent weeks concerns "youths" who go down the street smashing out car windows by the hundreds and the complete fecklessness of local officials to do anything about it. The Ring cameras record it all and nothing happens.
I’m just curious as to why OH, SC, and WV governors are sending National Guard troops to D.C. with 43 of their own cities on fire with crime.
look across the pond, where cat callers are arrested but Pakistani grooming gangs are let go, that is the model
the current procurator Brian Schwalb sic, who worked with Matt Graves in the great Delta House roundup, let the dead and wounded pile up in the Capitol
"...addressing the root problems"
Freder must be blogging from a rest home somewhere. His rhetorical style is mired in Kennedy-era northeast liberal mindrot like a La Brea Tar Pit mastodon -- up to his snoot.
Here's a hint, Freder: Addressing the root problems has been a laugh line since Christina Applegate was hot... you know, back a-ways, like the guy across the hall often says when he complains about his liver. Go play some bingo. Go flirt with Grandma Moses. (She's been eying you, didn't you know?) And check that final expenses policy. There's been some inflation since you took it out.
Stolen or redistributive change? When the scales were lifted.
Kamala's got free time, after fixing the root problems of the border crisis. Put her on it.
Dowd: “ Even if Trump is being diabolical, Democrats should not pretend everything is fine here. Because it’s not."
Juan Williams on Fox News this morning begged to differ. He stated he does not live in a high end community and he doesn’t see any crime.
Mr Magoo has sharper insights then Juan,
it was about a year and a half ago, that a councilmen in the 8th ward, had complained about the crime problem and even suggested the guard deployment,
hens coming home… TO ROOST!
It's not about incompetence. It's the sign that the deciders in DC are on the side of the criminals, because their relatives and friends vote for the deciders and they like their voters more than they like the victims. Eventually enough victims may stay around long enough to vote them out, but I wouldn't bet on it. Trump just got tired of waiting for this to happen.
Wasn't it Mummar that got religion when the air strike hit his family? Mummar smarter than Maureen…
well no he probably orchestrated the pan am 103 hit, as a result, the details are murky
Freder wants to know in what sense a city without tents half-blocking, or even fully blocking, the sidewalks, like, you know, every city in America twenty-five years ago, is a better city.
I don't know. Maybe it's better because you can walk around the corner and down the block to a brunch place without any tents blocking your way. Also no addicts sprawled on the sidewalks or trying mightily to standup straight, while out of their mind on tranq outside Symphony Hall. Life as we used to know it.
I've got a terrific idea for a Trump Derangement therapy program, it's in 12 steps and the very first one is admitting that you have a problem....
The root cause... What is that? What is THE Root Cause?
It boils down to- individuals. Not meth, not alcohol, nor crack, but individuals.
So- what do we do with them? The homeless, the drug addicts, the petty thieves, etc.?
All organized societies since recorded time have faced this. What to do with losers in life. Historically, they've been eliminated. Heinlein's observation was (similar to) it's never been a crime to kill a hobo. A ne'er do well? Found dead? Even an obvious homicide? The authorities wouldn't care- good riddance to bad rubbish. Case closed.
But we're more civilized then that. Or are we? The new tactic of blockading roads is being met with some states passing laws saying go ahead- run them over. No crime. And most people support that. For the drug addicts, the homeless, often the same, etc., we can incarcerate them in mental institutions or prisons, or just not care if they disappear.
Take your pick.
Yeah, those Democrat mayors are...incompetent. They want to stop crime, but gosh they don't know how.
I don't know how on-camera speeding tickets work where MODO's sis lives, but where I live the ticket is mailed to the residence listed on your car registration (it would probably more accurately be termed a city code infraction) and states at the bottom the procedure to be followed if you claim you were not driving the car when the speeding occurred.
The stolen car circumstance is not addressed, but common sense would indicate if you show up at the hearing, swear you were not driving, and produce a copy of the police report and the impound recovery paperwork the citations would be dismissed.
How about PDJT or Homan make an announcement that because Mayor Bass asked, they are going to recognize LA as a sanctuary city and will not make any ICE arrests unless specifically requested.
Resources that were assigned there will be used to crack down on other cities instead.
Maybe even offer transportation to LA from other parts of the US.
In other words, concentrate as many illegal aliens in LA as possible. Maybe even build camps for them.
Let's see how serious the love of illegal aliens really is.
John Henry
My thought too. An ordinary person would most definitely have to pay those tickets. "it's your car, isn't it?"
I don't think it works that way. If you can prove it wasn't you driving, you're not guilty. Not like a parking ticket.
Similar situation in Milwaukee.
"One officer said that, even if they saw the perp driving in her car, they could not chase him, because of laws passed by the D.C. Council"
This is one of the big problems with the Democrat's approach to crime.
Wilbur,
In a contest between common sense and $5mm which do you think will win out?
Especially in a place like DC.
OTOH, I just asked Grok and they say that DC law says that the car owner is responsible for all fines regardless of who was driving. EXCEPT if the car was stolen. One has to jump through a bunch of hoops but the fine is supposed to be dismissed.
I suspect that if it is less than a couple hundred bucks I'd be inclined to pay it rather than jump through all the hoops which sounds like a PITA. I have a low tolerance of pain when it comes to dealing with govt. YMMV.
John Henry
Juan Williams has done well for himself, and while living in a van down by the river on top of it. If FNC wasn't so racist he'd have that deluxe apartment in the sky.
I see another attempt in this thread to push the Democrat talking point that states contributing National Guard to DC have higher crime rates than DC. Given that no source is provided for this assertion, I will suspect that it is likely from a recent Bureau of Justice Statistics attempt to rank crime rates in about two dozen states based on data from the National Crime Victimization Survey. I ran across this article in Chronicles (H/T to Scott Johnson at Powerline) by Jeffrey Anderson, head of the BJS during Trump's first term.
Two selections from the article linked above.
The report’s comparisons across other states are similarly suspect. The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting figures collected from police show that over the years in question Georgia had a higher rate of violent crime than did the state of Washington, by about 10 percent. The BJS report, however, maintains not only that it was Washington’s violent crime rate that was higher than Georgia’s, but higher by triple. Likewise, the FBI figures show that North Carolina had a 25 percent higher violent crime rate than Indiana from 2020–22, while the BJS report again skews the opposite direction, showing Indiana’s rate was more than double North Carolina’s.
... BJS is relying on the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), which dates to the Nixon administration and is the largest crime survey in the country and one of the largest federal surveys on any topic. The NCVS is an indispensable resource because it collects crime data from actual victims, rather than relying merely upon police reports. But the NCVS was principally designed to capture national statistics, not state-by-state ones. Its sample size and methodology are much better suited to the former than the latter. If one doesn’t (or doesn’t adequately) survey a key, high-crime neighborhood in Atlanta, for instance, the results won’t have much of an effect on the national numbers, but it could have a big effect on the numbers from Georgia.
Mr. Anderson goes in to other details about the provenance of this never-before attempted use of the NCSV as well as the dodgy nature of attempting to use data from the 2020 and 2021 NCVSs for trending due to the impact COVID restrictions had on data collection.
"Even if Trump is being diabolical..."
Behold --the mentally ill left.
And moving homeless people to God knows where with no real plan for addressing the root problems,
Was it in San Francisco that the mayor did the big homeless sweep-and-disappear right before the Japanese delegation came to visit? And I know Seattle has long had a policy (possibly an informal one but carried out assiduously nonetheless) of periodic sweep-and-disappears of the homeless, taking them down south of the city so it would take a while for them to make their way back north. And how many cities have "no camping" ordinances that they only enforce in the better areas of town? And finally, how many major US cities have Republican mayors and city councils?
Aside from this little partisanship problem, Freder's implied objection to any way of beginning to cope with homelessness unless it "address[es] the root problems" is part of the leftist Unified Field Theory issue: you have to solve all the problems at once using one elegant theoretical approach. Otherwise, don't start. Don't even try.
As a mentally ill leftist lies bleeding on the sidewalk in Chicago or DC - after being stabbed by criminals… lawless thugs allowed to roam freely by Soros funded Democratic DA’s and by democratic City council laws.
This stabbed-to-death mortally wounded democrat’s last gasp of air and last moment will be: “I Curse Trump!”
Meanwhile – back in reality – Trump only want to help everyone by cleaning-up the Soros funded mob-left's mess, to make life safe again for everyone, including the mentally ill collective loyalist democratic insane left.
As soon as she said "Even though Trump is diabolical" - I lost all sympathy for her and her sister.
Mentally ill losers can feel it. Feel the crime, a-holes.
You leftists demanded DEFUND THE POILICE. and that's what you did.
"Was it in San Francisco that the mayor did the big homeless sweep-and-disappear right before the Japanese delegation came to visit?"
It was the governor, and he did it for the Chinese president.
Newsom trashed for admitting San Francisco was cleaned up for China summit: 'Slap in the face'
Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., was criticized on social media after admitting that San Francisco, nationally infamous for homelessness, timed a massive cleanup effort ahead of an important U.S.-China summit this week.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/newsom-trashed-admitting-san-francisco-cleaned-up-china-summit-slap-face
Have any media outfits considered maybe going out there and asking the people who live in the neighborhoods being patrolled how they feel about it? (And I don't mean the neighborhoods where the Georgetown faculty live).
it would never occur to them,
Freder Frederson said...
and prepare to reclaim power over the improved city he will return to your safekeeping.
And moving homeless people to God knows where with no real plan for addressing the root problems, have masked and armed thugs, and the military, under the color of law, roaming the streets meting out justice is going to improve the city exactly how.
These "solutions" are reminiscent of the underpants gnomes.
I would love to be entertained by your listing of the root problems and any solutions you may have.
We all know you are stupid. At least dance for us.
Mason G said...
It was the governor, and he did it for the Chinese president.
Newsom trashed for admitting San Francisco was cleaned up for China summit: 'Slap in the face'
Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., was criticized on social media after admitting that San Francisco, nationally infamous for homelessness, timed a massive cleanup effort ahead of an important U.S.-China summit this week.
This was just Newsom understanding how stupid democrat voters like Freder are.
At some point Freder will understand the root cause of homelessness is that Democrats want homeless people and design policies to place them in their cities.
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