DC is experiencing multiple situations unfolding simultaneously. A federal investigation has been launched into whether the city’s police department manipulated crime data.
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Why continue to think facts matter? They do not. Counter with shinning a BRIGHT LIGHT on the crime rates in the larger Republican-managed cities and/or states. CHANGE THE NARRATIVE rather than engage in their frame. (Look up George Lakoff).
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An investigation launched by the same administration that is manipulating the economic data and jobs reports.
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The latest attempt by the administration to weaponize the justice system against political opponents. In pushing to take over D.C.’s police force, Trump continues to falsely portray the city as being overrun by crime claims that run counter to the facts.
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Crime in D.C. has, in fact, been falling dramatically. In 2024, overall violent crime dropped by about 35%, reaching its lowest level in more than three decades, with homicides down roughly 32% and carjackings
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plummeting by over 50% compared to 2023. More recent data shows that through 2025, violent crime remains on a downward slope evidence points to a 26% year‑over‑year drop, with most categories continuing to decline.
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MPD’s August 2025 figures also reflect these trends: homicides down about 11%, sex abuse cases down nearly 48%, assaults with a weapon cut by 19%, robberies down nearly 30%, and total violent crime down approximately 26% compared to the previous year.
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Looking further back, this is not a short-term shift violent crime in D.C. has followed a long-term downward trend since the spike in the early 1990s, during which the city was once labeled America’s “murder capital.”
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For example, violent crime rates, and especially homicides, have consistently decreased each decade, dropping by more than half between the mid-1990s and 2018. The 2024 low marks a continuation of this decades-long decline.
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At the same time, Republican governors have dispatched troops. Tennessee Governor Bill Lee has sent around 160 National Guard personnel. Mississippi is contributing approximately 200, Louisiana about 135, South Carolina also 200,
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West Virginia between 300 and 400, and Ohio another 150. Altogether, these six states have brought in well over 1,000 additional forces, and with other deployments topping out near 1,800, the federal presence is substantial.
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Meanwhile, Jeanine Pirro, the admin-appointed US attorney for the District, has instructed her office to pursue the most severe possible charges, pushing for federal prosecutions whenever she can. She’s also considering lowering the age at which a young person can be charged as an adult to 14.
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It's just amazing how the Trump administration continues to promote people with serious control and anger issues. I can only imagine the departmental requests for mental health counseling...
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Links: www.axios.com/local/washin... mpdc.dc.gov/page/distric... time.com/7309133/dc-c... www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202... www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-unhin...
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What is the age limit to arrest someone without a brain?
aug 19, 2025, 7:48 pm • 0 0 • view
is she sloshy yet? does she do liquid lunches with whiskey pete?
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aug 19, 2025, 7:15 pm • 0 0 • view
The Trump administration is all about child abuse!
aug 19, 2025, 11:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Damn. Are there ANY fucking Republicans who DO NOT target children ?? Sick fucks.
aug 20, 2025, 2:04 pm • 0 0 • view
meanwhile, her husband was involved in organized crime and was convicted of tax fraud and conspiracy. then pardoned by trump.
aug 20, 2025, 8:15 am • 0 0 • view
Pirro is an unqualified wannabe. She is barbaric.
aug 19, 2025, 6:20 pm • 4 0 • view
Except she can't change the law. She doesn't make them. I know. That still won't stop ol Box of Wine.
aug 19, 2025, 6:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Well she is going to lose in court a lot.
aug 19, 2025, 10:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Does this '14 yr old' = adult thing have any connection with Epstein and the age of girls involved?
aug 19, 2025, 8:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Like everything else, the big statistical numbers in crime were caused by the Baby Boomers. Now that Boomer criminals are either dead, in prison, or too old to mug people, the crime statistics are way down.
aug 19, 2025, 6:07 pm • 6 1 • view
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aug 19, 2025, 7:03 pm • 0 0 • view
He is just trying to throw everything to the wall & see what sticks. RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILE
aug 19, 2025, 5:59 pm • 9 2 • view
Trump administration only wants numbers that support their arguments and policies.
aug 19, 2025, 6:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Besides, it would help if there weren’t so many guns on the street!
aug 20, 2025, 3:11 am • 1 0 • view
They don’t like facts. Must mean they plan to manipulate crime data. Every accusation is an admission with these goons.
aug 20, 2025, 3:10 am • 1 0 • view
In 2025, seeing the words "federal investigation" lets you know that an over-paid offical was told to look busy while some kool-aide mainlining toadie typed up some bullshit to feed the press.
aug 19, 2025, 6:25 pm • 4 0 • view
Well of course he will make sure that they did even if they didn’t he has to legitimize his lies …so obvious and so typical of taco
aug 20, 2025, 10:31 am • 0 0 • view
Corruption in the DC PD?!
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aug 19, 2025, 11:14 pm • 1 0 • view
Thank you for this commendable reporting.
aug 19, 2025, 5:59 pm • 4 0 • view
Sounds like another case of accusing others of what you are doing... i.e., projection. Every accusation is a confession, etc.
aug 19, 2025, 6:13 pm • 4 0 • view
They need an excuse to grant their God king and a standing army of thugs secure his castle as he makes himself comfortable. He isn't planning on leaving.
aug 19, 2025, 5:59 pm • 1 0 • view
This is not about the 🍊pile of 💩. This is the Heritage Foundation and its' CEO Kevin Roberts implementing Project 2025. DC is their immediate goal beacuse if they can control its borders they can keep certain members of congress and other government posts from returning to work.
aug 19, 2025, 6:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Two things can be true at once.
aug 19, 2025, 7:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Surely by now the chemical lobbyists will be bribing the Rapist-in-Chief to allow lead back into gasoline. That'll get urban crime levels back to 1980s levels, though it'll take another 20 years. The Rapist will be safely dead by then. Still, he could station his Gestapo goons there pre-emptively.
aug 19, 2025, 7:24 pm • 0 0 • view
A "federal investigation"? They can't be trusted to determine factual numbers.
aug 19, 2025, 6:18 pm • 4 1 • view
when the admin says the cities, including those with progressively low crime rates are "rampant with crime" they actually just mean theres a high percentage of people they want to project as being criminals irrespective of any actual crimes, eg protesters, poc, civil servants, etc
aug 19, 2025, 7:33 pm • 7 0 • view
who’s surprised, führer trump needs to justify his totalitarian power grab somehow.
aug 19, 2025, 5:53 pm • 23 0 • view
What surprises me is how smoothly Trump's moved from peak capitalism into his overtly fascist period, completely unremarked by the benign & lazy eyes of our corporate media lords. A country that used to proclaim a free and independent press as the guardrails for our democracy. This is my nightmare
aug 19, 2025, 6:05 pm • 22 2 • view
Americans invited this. They chose it. There is something fundamentally wrong with the people in this country. They have cognitive deficits. Bad food supply, ag chemicals, not sure of the root cause beyond right wing media brainwashing. Our people are too stupid to exist.
aug 20, 2025, 3:56 am • 0 0 • view
Could you be a little more specific? When you write "Americans invited this," you're talking about a lot of Americans. In 2024: 244,660,890 Eligible Voters: 31.6% voted for Trump 30.7% voted for Harris 37.8% voted for neither Hard to conclude that "America invited this".
aug 22, 2025, 8:41 pm • 1 0 • view
This country has a Nazi problem. When this large percentage of the population is openly supporting a fascist, white supremacist, terrorist party, and another 1/3 doesn’t even think it’s important enough to vote, AMERICANS ARE THE PROBLEM
aug 22, 2025, 10:39 pm • 1 0 • view
He can’t subdue all of the states and local governments. Economy is starting to crash. But yes, much of the federal government will be destroyed. Raise hell with the useless and spinelles members of Congress!
aug 20, 2025, 3:08 am • 4 1 • view
Why not just just hire another statistician from the Heritage Foundation to give him the numbers he wants to present?
aug 19, 2025, 6:12 pm • 3 0 • view
Sure doesn't sound like an admin that stands with the Blue. But we've all known that since J6. Complete bullshit like everything else.
aug 19, 2025, 6:13 pm • 2 0 • view
They gotta fill up those For Profit Prisons somehow.
aug 19, 2025, 5:57 pm • 8 1 • view
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aug 19, 2025, 6:09 pm • 0 0 • view
It was never about crime.
aug 20, 2025, 11:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Ignoring the fact that the low crime numbers Trump claims are false came from his own Justice Department, not the City.
aug 19, 2025, 7:10 pm • 1 1 • view
What are @altnps.bsky.social doing to stop the the nazi terrorist child fuckers ( all conservatives) from completing the take over of the usa.
aug 19, 2025, 8:29 pm • 0 0 • view
I have no doubt that DC crime data is about to be manipulated.
aug 19, 2025, 6:00 pm • 16 2 • view
Let’s see what they allegedly uncover. If the numbers were fudged, they were fudged. Same angry response when accusations of Cuomo fudging nursing home deaths during COVID came out and what were the actual facts…..he was fudging numbers…
aug 19, 2025, 7:23 pm • 0 0 • view
DC restaurants & businesses need to close like COVID is spreading like fire. The Dems had better NOT vote with the GOP next month to keep the government open. Shut it down! @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov
aug 20, 2025, 3:20 am • 0 0 • view
I agree about businesses, but shutting the government down might be a Republicanwin. It's very confusing.
aug 20, 2025, 4:19 am • 0 0 • view
Possibly, but recent government shut downs hurt Republicans, as most Americans blamed Republicans for causing gridlock in negotiations.
aug 20, 2025, 5:19 am • 1 0 • view
The revised data will show a hellscape of violent crime in DC that immediately ended when Trump sent in the National Guard, and he’ll use this to justify similar occupations of other Democratic majority cities.
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In remembrance of the 50th anniversary of the events of May 4, 1970, and the release of the song, "Ohio:, the Kent State University Chorale performs a very special acapella version of "Ohio." this version was requested by, and approved by Neil Young. youtu.be/FOibinIeyRg
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