I too am leery of federalization. I didn't protest the Patriot Act and, as Covid revealed, it swung back mightily on the people. I am a Ron Paul fan now. That said, the current form of the Dem party has little interest in safety and I think that is by design. Make a city so dangerous, one will beg for surveillance. Los Angeles is also a poster child for dysfunction. Living there, I wonder what tourists make of spending hard earned money only to find it is a tent town with litter and feces. I drove by MacArthur Park where ICE had been. Architecturally, the buildings are beautiful but it became a hellhole decades ago. It was even worse than the last time I was in the area. The walking dead roamed the park. Fencing ran alongside the sidewalk of the street opposite the park. Apparently, it is to cut down on the amount of street vending. I asked a friend to join me for lunch at an old time deli trying to hang on. She took one look at images in the area and said, no way. That Dem politicians said that the park was being used by children is a joke. No sane parent would take their child to the park - no matter how desperate they were for open spaces. Even if one could dodge the drug addicts, heaven knows what the child might pick up from the ground
It is all TDS with the Dems and MSM. Trump is not a mastermind continually putting dems on the 20% side of every issue. They are suffering TDS and cannot rationalize, like Bowser did, a better path forward. Nor will they admit their “experiment” of very left liberal policies do not work.
From where I see this the Dems have three choices. Step up, stop the pro-crime, anti-police policies and work with ICE. Keep shooting themselves in the foot and keep the TDS at 11. Or, do nothing and surrender to lawlessness. I’m with Marcus, not a fan of government intervention, but you can work with them and Trump loves to negotiate.
Finally, a democrat with big brains and one who cares about her constituents. Too bad Mayor Bowser isn't in charge of the democratic party. But the rest are busy obsessing with passing the purity test. I look at the other side and I see people arguing and debating, which is as it should be. But the MSM and the dems cackle over every instance of splits within the republicans. With the republicans I see politics in action while the dems have trained themselves to be a cult where everyone just bobs their head in agreement. I'm happy for the citizens of DC getting a great ROI in their mayor. As the saying goes, you get what you vote for.
Bowser is handling it better than I expected. But then guess that her other option was to protest, squeal and then lose DC completely to the Feds.
>>Worse, they’ve failed to highlight D.C.’s pre-crackdown successes. Violent crime was already at a 30-year low in 2024, with murders down 15%, carjackings down 87%, and overall violent crime reduced by 27%.<<
Really? That's not what the DCPD Union Pres says.
"D.C. Police Union Chairman Gregg Pemberton told NBC News’ Garrett Haake that he doubts the drop in crime is as large as D.C. officials are touting.
“There's a, potentially, a drop from where we were in 2023. I think that there's a possibility that crime has come down. But the department is reporting that in 2024, crime went down 35% -- violent crime – and another 25% through August of this year. That is preposterous to suggest that cumulatively we've seen 60-plus percent drops in violent crime from where we were in ’23, because we're out on the street. We know the calls we're responding to,” he said."
I too am leery of federalization. I didn't protest the Patriot Act and, as Covid revealed, it swung back mightily on the people. I am a Ron Paul fan now. That said, the current form of the Dem party has little interest in safety and I think that is by design. Make a city so dangerous, one will beg for surveillance. Los Angeles is also a poster child for dysfunction. Living there, I wonder what tourists make of spending hard earned money only to find it is a tent town with litter and feces. I drove by MacArthur Park where ICE had been. Architecturally, the buildings are beautiful but it became a hellhole decades ago. It was even worse than the last time I was in the area. The walking dead roamed the park. Fencing ran alongside the sidewalk of the street opposite the park. Apparently, it is to cut down on the amount of street vending. I asked a friend to join me for lunch at an old time deli trying to hang on. She took one look at images in the area and said, no way. That Dem politicians said that the park was being used by children is a joke. No sane parent would take their child to the park - no matter how desperate they were for open spaces. Even if one could dodge the drug addicts, heaven knows what the child might pick up from the ground
It is all TDS with the Dems and MSM. Trump is not a mastermind continually putting dems on the 20% side of every issue. They are suffering TDS and cannot rationalize, like Bowser did, a better path forward. Nor will they admit their “experiment” of very left liberal policies do not work.
From where I see this the Dems have three choices. Step up, stop the pro-crime, anti-police policies and work with ICE. Keep shooting themselves in the foot and keep the TDS at 11. Or, do nothing and surrender to lawlessness. I’m with Marcus, not a fan of government intervention, but you can work with them and Trump loves to negotiate.
Finally, a democrat with big brains and one who cares about her constituents. Too bad Mayor Bowser isn't in charge of the democratic party. But the rest are busy obsessing with passing the purity test. I look at the other side and I see people arguing and debating, which is as it should be. But the MSM and the dems cackle over every instance of splits within the republicans. With the republicans I see politics in action while the dems have trained themselves to be a cult where everyone just bobs their head in agreement. I'm happy for the citizens of DC getting a great ROI in their mayor. As the saying goes, you get what you vote for.
Truth to liberals is like older women to R.Kelly.
https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/rise-of-the-mashed-potato-brained
Bowser is handling it better than I expected. But then guess that her other option was to protest, squeal and then lose DC completely to the Feds.
>>Worse, they’ve failed to highlight D.C.’s pre-crackdown successes. Violent crime was already at a 30-year low in 2024, with murders down 15%, carjackings down 87%, and overall violent crime reduced by 27%.<<
Really? That's not what the DCPD Union Pres says.
"D.C. Police Union Chairman Gregg Pemberton told NBC News’ Garrett Haake that he doubts the drop in crime is as large as D.C. officials are touting.
“There's a, potentially, a drop from where we were in 2023. I think that there's a possibility that crime has come down. But the department is reporting that in 2024, crime went down 35% -- violent crime – and another 25% through August of this year. That is preposterous to suggest that cumulatively we've seen 60-plus percent drops in violent crime from where we were in ’23, because we're out on the street. We know the calls we're responding to,” he said."
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/justice-department-to-investigate-whether-dc-police-manipulated-crime-data/3977022/