Washington, D.C. is a city that has long spun statistics to the point that they become more fable than fact. It reaffirms the famous view that there are “lies, damned lies, and statistics.” The line is the perfect warning to the unwary about politicians citing statistics. The quote itself is widely misrepresented as the work of Mark Twain or British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, so it seems nothing can be trusted when it comes to statistics, not even quotes on statistics.
That question is again at the heart of a debate following the announcement of President Donald Trump that he would be sending the National Guard into Washington and taking temporary control of the D.C. police. In response, Mayor Muriel Bowser and other democrats denounced the plan and claimed that violent crime is at a 30-year low after dropping by 26% so far in 2025.
However, those statistics were recently challenged after a scandal involving allegations of suppressing crime reports to artificially reduce crime rate statistics. The media is reporting the reduction claim despite only recently questioning those statistics.
The MPD in July suspended Michael Pulliam, police commander for the Adams Morgan neighborhood, for allegedly manipulating crime numbers. D.C. Fraternal Order of Police chairman Gregg Pemberton accused police officials of pressuring officers to falsify statistics to reduce crime rates:
“When our members respond to the scene of a felony offense where there is a victim reporting that a felony occurred, inevitably there will be a lieutenant or a captain that will show up on that scene and direct those members to take a report for a lesser offense. So, instead of taking a report for a shooting or a stabbing or a carjacking, they will order that officer to take a report for a theft or an injured person to the hospital or a felony assault, which is not the same type of classification.”
Pemberton said that the MPD’s statistics were “preposterous… There’s absolutely no way crime could be down 28%. Last year, they suggested that it went down 34%.”
Even accepting some of these statistics, it is hardly anything to celebrate. For example, Washington, DC’s 2024 murder rate was 27.54 per 100,00 people. That is higher than cities like Bogota (15.1), Mexico City (10.6), Islamabad (9.2), and Lima (7.6). It is astronomical when compared to the capitals of close allies like Paris (1.64), London (1.1), and Madrid (0.96).
There are good-faith reasons to oppose this move. I am not convinced that the National Guard deployment is warranted or likely to have a meaningful impact on crime. However, President Trump is within his rights to order the deployment. He may also take temporary control of the police and can notify Congress if he wants to extend that period to 30 days. D.C. is a federal enclave and is thus different from other cities. There is no governor involved in such orders in Washington, which remain under the jurisdiction of the federal government.
What is also clear is that crime remains very high in this city and the reliability of the D.C. crime statistics can be legitimately questioned as we look for solutions for public safety.
I saw that Queen Hillary tweeted out about Trump’s unhinged behavior and crime in DC was at a 30 year low. If crime is truly down, it’s because the Clintons now operate out of New York. Hillary and Bill have some serious explaining coming up and I think Hillary is going to prison. The unmitigated gall of this woman is astounding, justice is long overdue.
“… I think Hillary is going to prison. …”
“Surely you jest!”, and I suppose that if; Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Jeb Bush, G.W. Bush, Barack Obama, and a lot of Other Men that could possible be on the Ghislaine Maxwell transcript’s Pedo Island List that Judge Paul A. Engelmayer would not unseal, would be going to prison to.
Since the Judge did not unseal, then anybody is free to guess Whom may possibly be on ‘The List’ of Island Podophiles.
On the other hand, if there is ‘No List’ then Jeffrey Epstein apparently killed himself for nothing, Virginia Giuffre hanged herself for nothing, and Ghislaine Maxwell is sitting in prison for nothing. No List, No Podophiles, No Crime. Nothing left to see here, move on.
“… I think Hillary is going to prison. …” I wouldn’t count on that, Grandma Clinton is a pretty crafty Kitten. Besides she’s the one that started this whole Pedo Island mishegoss to being with. While her trying to frame Donald Trump as deeply involved in a Pedo Island Trist narrative, she got her Husband caught instead. So now the matter is Hush Hush, and the Podophiles are free to roam.
“… I think Hillary is going to prison. …” Lol
Matt Taibi and John Solomon tend to agree with my assessment. Her support mechanisms are growing smaller and smaller as the indictments grow nearer and nearer. Time will tell and Trump is all in after what she put him through at the taxpayers expense. I say lock her up, long overdue. The Clinton brand no longer carries the weight it once did, tarnished by their corruption top to bottom.
She no doubt needs to be ‘Locked up’ (lol), particularly after Team Hillary dug up Stormy Daniels for what became ‘The Most Expensive One Night Stand’ in the Nations History. Her wanting to frame “The Donald” with anything she could demonstrates the extent of her vile and perverse nature. She’s just as much a pervert and Bill. They both shouldn’t be left Off the Hook, but Grandma & Grandpa going to prison is a stretch. Maybe we will get another OJ Bronco chase or DJT gets Booked in Fulton County episode out of it. Wonder if the Clinton’s Mugshots will be available soon enough for Christmas Cards.
ABC Anchor Breaks From the Left-Wing Script and Confirms How Dangerous DC Is
hmmmmmm
Turley forgot to mention that Congress cut funding to DC. Congress controls how much money DC gets. DC also has so many police departments that are funded by Congress whose cuts clearly affect how efffective they can be. Trump isn’t going to blame congress because it’s more effective to blame the mayor who has little authority over the funding and rulemaking for the city.
That is a ridiculous argument. The leaders of DC hate the police and have defunded them whenever possible. Also the current chief’s last job was as head of DEI for the Department. You are ignoring the facts.
“Turley forgot to mention that Congress cut funding to DC. Congress controls how much money DC gets. DC also has so many police departments that are funded by Congress whose cuts clearly affect how efffective they can be. Trump isn’t going to blame congress because it’s more effective to blame the mayor who has little authority over the funding and rulemaking for the city.”
It’s amazing how leftists always seem to forget DC Home Rule when it suits them.
Why does the union support this?
DC Police Union Chairman Gregg Pemberton: “We completely agree with the President that crime in the District of Columbia is out of control and something needs to be done with it.”
Me thinks you maybe lying
Money is always the answer… Right…
Matt Taibbi reported that the 2024 police-gathered data are for all 12 months, while the 2025 data are only for the year-to-date 2025. If true, one has further reason to question the DC Police Department.
To those fighting over and lying about statistics – I would suggest reading Adam Smith’s opus – “The Wealth of Nations”
Smith fathered modern economics in an era when Government statistics were almost non-existant – yet he managed to find creative ways and sources of information to measure the economies of the great powers of the world for the 250 years that preceding. And using that information established the laws of economics that govern us today.
Anyone capable of more than first order thinking can establish with small effort the credibility of most any statistic.
ATS below claims that it matters that DC is just the core urban center of a much larger Metropolitan area.
Interesting argument – and if the ONLY thing that we were measuring was the murder RATE it would has some meaning.
But the issue is NOT precisely how many murders per 100,000 people are taking place in DC vs London.
But how Safe is DC. The 700K urban core of DC has Twice the number of murders of the 15 times larger London Metropolitan region. Maybe there are very small parts of Urban london that have a higher murder rate than DC – but there is no 700K portion of London that has double the total murders of the entire london metro area – put simply – ATS’s argument might not be literally false, Put it is absolutely DECEPTIVE.
Further the innumeracy of ATS’s argument was trivial to prove with a few minutes of googling.
It is not Turley that has the fact check problem,
It is ATS that is looking through the wrong end of a telescope hoping to see the entire universe. Politicians can play games with numbers for a LITTLE BIT – but reality can not be denied.
Biden and Harris lost in 2024 for many reasons – but among the most important was that people simply did not beleive their claims about how great their economy was. Biden and Harris had all kinds of numbers – but tge overwhelming majority of people did NOT see that great economy in their daily lives and voted accordingly.
You can not fool all the people all the time.
Trump has already won the battle of statistics – not because we know he is right – or wrong about recent jobs numbers or DC crime statistics. But because we KNOW that those providing us with statistics have been lying for atleast 4 years.
Again back to Adam Smith.
There is ALWAYS an independent way to do a reality check on official statistics – atleast in the long run.
So you’re saying splitting hairs about a largely correct view is makes it incorrect? Adam Smith didn’t have the luxury of having more detailed data which means he was left with making a lot of assumptions that could not be independently verified. His economic statistics were determined by his authority instead of data. Nobody would question or challenge it because ther would be literally almost no challengers to his statistics.
“FIGURES DON’T LIE, BUT LIARS FIGURE”.
“Bulls make money, bears make money, pigs get slaughtered!”
Comparing DC’s crime rate to other cities is difficult because DC is entirely urban. The suburban parts of the city are in VA and MD and are not included in the calculation, but these are definitely included in the calculation of cities like London, which have significant sprawl. Obviously, there is a inverse correlation with the financial means of a neighborhood’s residents and its crime rate. So, comparing DC to other cities arbitrarily cuts off its lowest crime areas. The DC metro area is 6.3 million residents, but the crime statistics are only looking at the 700K within the District.
The London’s Metropolitan Police District includes most of Greater London. Completely apples and oranges. So who is the one spouting “lies, damned lies, and statistics”?
Also, underreporting is neither new or limited to DC. Here are the London authorities recognizing that it is also a problem in London: https://www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/what-london-assembly-does/questions-mayor/find-an-answer/under-reporting-crime
This took all of 5 seconds to Google. Why does Professor Turley continue to forget to factcheck his articles?
“DC is entirely urban”
So you’ve never actually been in DC. Since you’re so blatantly incorrect about a very basic fact, we’re safe to dismiss the rest of your misinformed screed. Have a nice day.
ATS – if london has an under reporting problem – that would only make the comparison WORSE.
DC is under reporting and is 3 times as bad as some of the worst places in the world and 20+ times worse than London.
There is nothing Wrong with Turley’s facts.
London had just over 100 murders in 2024.
DC had 187.
The population of the area policed by the MPD of london is just over 9M people – and it has 1/2 the murders of DCs 700K – according to you. Do you really want to add the murders in the DC Metro area to the 187 in the Actual District and see how much Worse DC really is ?
BTW Today DC had its 100th homocide – that means it will easily surpass the London MPD for 2025.
AS Will Johns posted – Figures don’t lie, but liars can figure.
You have done an excellent job of demonstrating an inability to think critically – either that or willful blindness.
That’s not how math works. Underreporting means the number should be larger in London. The statistics used by Turley are per 100k people… So the denominator is the same
Rabble:
if 9 out of 10 pollees disagree with your preformed conclusion, just say 9 out of 9 agree that crime is down.
Statistics can be fudged so damn easily.
DC DEI Chief of Police doesn’t know what “chain of command” means.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/dei-action-d-c-police-chief-left-completely
And they want to be a state!!??
“And they want to be a state!!??”
Only as a means to an end. They really just want the two additional extremist left-wing Senators and a full voting House member that would come with statehood. Not going to happen.
“I hear Zimbabwe is nice this time of year.”
– Anonymous
The Trump White House plans to conduct a far-reaching review of Smithsonian museum exhibitions, materials and operations ahead of America’s 250th anniversary to ensure the museums align with “Trump’s interpretation of American history.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-smithsonian
Maybe he will add this painting of George Washington and the Continental Army storming the British airports
https://bsky.app/profile/kylegriffin1.bsky.social/post/3lw7s7jclks2y
It is important to know what airports were like during the Revolution.
Hahahahaha, Blue Sky? Is that like Twitter but for fragile leftists? You’re such a loser.
They plan to call in Frederick Douglass to consult.
Good idea.
I hear Frederick has been doing a lot of good things lately.
Which wing does he want dedicated to his history with Epstein?
Oh, no, not the Beatles too?
“Well she was just seventeen, uh, you know what I mean!”
None, because none exists. How about at the Clinton Library? You think they’ve finished that new wing documenting the 26 times that Billy Boy flew down to pedophile island?
Spaz.
Oh look, must be time for the daily spaz out of our dumbest troll.
The more accurate gag line from the world of statistics (which applies to the Democrats attempting to explain away the butchery) is Figures don’t lie – but liars figger
That involves deceitful practices like cherrypicking numbers, skewing questions presented in surveys, etc. As a student in a first year stats class you would never get away with that, never mind in a fourth your class. But Democrats do exactly that all the time – and in particular, the police state fascist gun banning Democrats.
Professor Turley, if you’ve decided to now dabble in criminology, with Washington DC in mind, you might want to do some reading on what is known as “The Dark Figure Of Crime”.
– signed, a criminology degree who had to do more statistical analysis – that met proper criteria – than I ever want to even think about again.
..as for the comments on marriage having to be between a man & a woman… THAT is outgrown cultural beliefs, just like a woman’s place to be subservient and not vote… I am Conservative and I am for same sex-marriage because this accepts modern Life as it needs to be now.. no longer shackled to the past! Commitment is good.
END THE NONSENSE, GO SIGN A LEGALLY BINDING CONTRACT – MARRIAGE AND MATRIMONY MAKE CHILDREN AND MOTHERS
MATER, MOTHER, MATRIMONY
MATRI – MOTHER
MONY – ACTION, STATE, OR QUALITY.
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“Yes, exactly. Matrimony and marriage are fundamentally the same institution, both rooted in the natural union of a man and a woman that leads to the conception and raising of children.”
“Since homosexual couples cannot biologically produce children or fulfill the role of mother and father within this natural framework, they cannot participate in matrimony as it was originally and truly defined.”
“This understanding reflects the institution’s core purpose: securing and nurturing the family through the union of a mother and father.”
– ChatGPT
eighteenthhole has outgrown logic, intelligence, science, and sanity.
…he wants the rest of the world to go with him.
We say no.
EighteenthHole,
I am mostly a conservative with some social leanings.
Like, I am all for same sex-marriage. To paraphrase George Carlin, why should gays be exempt from suffering the institution of marriage like the rest of us? Note, I have gay friends and family. And some of them are equally conservative as I. They are just as against the mutilation and castration of children under the age of 18 as the rest of us. They are against pornography in elementary school libraries. They are against groomers. Most of them approve of Trump’s MAGA agenda. They might not agree with all of his MAGA agenda but enough for them to vote for him. A world better than then stupid and crazy of the far leftists Democrats.
When asked about gay marriage, Alex Baldwin said he was more worried about gay divorce. People have varying political views, but since this blog is about legal issues, would you agree that same-sex marriage is required by our Constitution?
DEIsm (i.e. color judgment, class bigotry) including planned parenthood a.k.a. selective-child a.k.a. wicked solution, racism, sexism, etc. are the clear and progressive conditions that afflict liberal societies. That said, civil unions for all consenting adults, right? #NoJudgment #NoLabels Why the bigotry? Is it a fetus… feature of liberal (i.e. divergent) ideology under the Pro-Choice religion? #HateLovesAbortion
No, Christians are forced to live in hell. SHALL make no law for or against.
Lgbt are not forced because they think there isn’t hell.
Lgbt should be able to make the intellectual leap required but are unwilling.
(It’s not my business). I don’t bake cakes nor write marriage licenses. In fact no Christian could remain in the United States knowingly nor participate in marriage as it stands. It’s a snare. It’s absurd. Be fruitful and multiply is a scientific observation of ALL living organisms in this case mammals of male female. ALL LIFE reproduces. Ever notice? It’s an observation of the first edict of nature. Get it?
The issue is transgenders (e.g. homosexuals) in a narrow frame, including groomers, womb farmers, and underage simulants. The homosexual orientation has no redeeming value to society or humanity, but can be reasonably tolerated as individuals. Couplets are politically congruent (“=”) but not equal to couples. Civil unions for all consenting adults. #NoJudgment #NoLabels #HateLovesAbortion
Oh, and strike the albinophobic (“Rainbow”) banners and rhetoric.
Homosexuals are in the transgender spectrum. Pride and prejudice, indeed.
Same-sex marriage is an oxymoronic contradiction in terms.
Matrimony, “mater” meaning “mother,” creates mothers and children.
Any sane judge would throw this case out for being monumentally frivolous.
Homosexuals can’t enter into matrimony and can’t engender children.
Logic and sanity lie on this side of the idiotic line you’ve drawn.
Get a legally binding contract.
It is illogical to “gift” the institution of natural matrimony and marriage to freaks and perversions of nature out of a misguided sense of empathy, nay, latent pity.
Marriage beteeen all consenting adults? Why the politically congruent (“=”) bigotry?
Also, no discrimination for queer sexual orientations (e.g. trans/homosexual, pedophilia) that are legal under Democratic law and proudly celebrated with liberal license in progressive sects.
Sure, why not. #HateLovesAbortion
Same-sex marriage is an oxymoronic contradiction in terms.
Matrimony, “mater” meaning “mother,” creates mothers and children.
Any sane judge would throw this case out for being monumentally frivolous.
Homosexuals can’t enter into matrimony and can’t engender children.
Logic and sanity lie on this side of the idiotic line you’ve drawn.
Get a legally binding contract.
Conservative as in pro-Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness under a Republican form of government and Constitution that mitigates democratic/dictatorial progress?
*. I’m not the best at stats but a few minutes yielded murders dropped under Republican presidents and rocket under democrat with Biden leaps to 37 per 100,000. Lowest was 10 under DJT 1st term.
Look it up and troll it. DJT can do as he sees fit.
THE TOPIC IS crimes, crime and statistics. ^^^^ my contribution.
DJT 1st term had the lowest murder rate in recorded history for DC.
Sec. Duffy’s porch piracy yesterday as POTUS was making his speech re: DC crime is another example of CRIME IN DC… or like the 2 Canadian tourists who lost their down parkas at gunpoint in the middle of the day at busy Dupont Circle.. MUGGING! I know several ppl, incl myself, who have been mugged & my friend in his 80’s knocked unconscious and bleeding on the sidewalk – these things never make the ‘statistics.’ Bottomline: DC is Dangerous! TY POTUS for making it safer. The DC mayor & her apparatus need to wake-up.. they focus on ‘violent’ crime like killings.. but regular crime just grows and goes on & on…
This is about Fact, and Supposed Facts which go on and on to infinity by a blinded view of actual Facts. The lefts perturbations about Truth over Fact are on display daily across all political systems, they have forsaken all reasoning in support of a perceived bountiful garden where truth grows from lies.
George W
“See, we told you so.”
– American Founders, 1789/1790
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Naturalization Acts of 1790, 1795, 1798, 1802
United States Congress, “An act to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization,” March 26, 1790
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That any Alien being a free white person, who shall have resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States for the term of two years, may be admitted to become a citizen thereof….
The Confederate Kluxxer Democrats like George want normal Americans to believe laws, legal decisions, etc haven’t changed one bit since 1790-1802. Congress and the courts haven’t changed a single thing since then.
And George believes he should still have a Confederate right to grab a black American and enslave him – to help him wipe his ass in case Trump does deport all the Illegal Aliens.
Ah, the dastardly ad hominemer.
What I give are facts.
The fact is that Lincoln threw the baby out with the bathwater.
He threw the Constitution out with reprehensible slavery.
I’ve never had any ancestral or otherwise relationship to reprehensible slavery, have you, comrade?
As far as the law goes, everything Lincoln did was illicit and unconstitutional and must be rescinded, starting with secession, which was fully constitutional and included in the constitutional ratification documents of multiple states, and moving on to the abrogation of the “Reconstruction Amendments” conceived by Lincoln’s fellow traveler, Karl Marx, etc.
Wait, debating the law does not comport with the futile hysterical hyperbole of trolling ad hominemers, right, comrade?
Ah, the dastardly ad hominemer.
What I give are facts.
Ah! The dastardly psychopathic liar and Confederate Kluxxer George wants to claim he has suddenly achieved credibility and his “facts” can be trusted – after all his years here of lying and failing to pull that off!
Meanwhile, his would be audience watches as George continues his perfect record of staying one step ahead of honesty, character, and credibility – despite the fact they’ve been trying to catch up with him his entire life and failing in the attempt.
George, while you’re still driving The Three Democrat Stooges Clown Car – where did you get the brilliant idea that you could get away with attempting to make Karl Marx a brother of Abraham Lincoln’s as in brothers by different mothers?
Here’s a clue, George: Karl Marx never did an honest day’s work in his life – his mother called him a hopeless bum and freeloader. Nobody ever said the same thing about Lincoln, you inveterate racist Confederate commie Democrat scum.
“It’s the [law], stupid!”
– James Carville
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I’m talking law; you are caterwauling incoherently in the manner of a small child.
Abraham Lincoln’s entire “Reign of Terror” was illicit and unconstitutional.
Lincoln could not have happened, by law.
Secession was and remains not prohibited and fully constitutional—the 10th clearly defined that powers (i.e. secession) not prohibited to the states are reserved to the states.
Lincoln had no power to declare martial law, Lincoln’s military deployment in a sovereign foreign nation was unconstitutional, Lincoln’s uncivil war was unconstitutional and not declared, Lincoln had no power to suspend habeas corpus, Lincoln had no legal basis or constitutional power to issue a so-called “proclamation,” Lincoln was derelict and negligent in his failure to obey and enforce duly legislated immigration law that was in full force and effect, etc.
Even you must be capable of intellectually assimilating that law and set of facts.
Every act of Lincoln, including and subsequent to his unconstitutional denial of secession, is similarly illegitimate and unconstitutional and must be abrogated just as Roe v. Wade was struck down by Dobbs.
Lincoln was a criminal of high office; his transgressions legion.
Lincoln must have been impeached and convicted.
“Crazy Abe” thought he was above the law, but fate proved him wrong, which is commemorated to this day by the Seal and Flag of the Great State of Virginia—to wit, “Sic semper tyrannis.”
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10th Amendment
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
It must be tough being a Democrat these days, especially if they have TDS.
Can you picture them sitting in front of the TV watching MSNBC and praying to God for something to go bad for the USA, so they can feel good.
They don’t even believe in God!
“They don’t even believe in God!”
They believe in Government.
*. Crack, drugs
We always said there are 3 kinds of falsehoods: Lies, Damned Lies and what software vendors promise.
The software vendors say make all the money you can on the first sale because after that they’ll steal copies.
Dear Prof Turley,
Lies, damned lies and Posse Comitatus.
Trump recently fired the Director of BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) for sharply revising employment statistics downward. .. perhaps he could do the same for the officials responsible for D.C. crime statistics?
Of course, the biggest thieves, liars, gangsters and murderers on the planet are not stalking the streets of metro D.C. . .. they are walking the halls of congress and the White House.
Both parties are essentially criminal enterprises afaict. .. hardly a wit of difference between them.
*I fail to see how the National Guard is going to arrest that?
The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385, original at 20 Stat. 152) signed on June 18, 1878, by President Rutherford B. Hayes that limits the powers of the federal government in the use of federal military personnel to enforce domestic policies within the United States. Congress passed the Act as an amendment to an army appropriation bill following the end of Reconstruction and updated it in 1956, 1981 and 2021.
The Act originally applied only to the United States Army, but a subsequent amendment in 1956 expanded its scope to the United States Air Force. In 2021, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 further expanded the scope of the Act to cover the United States Navy, Marine Corps, and Space Force. The Act does not prevent the Army National Guard or the Air National Guard under state authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within its home state or in an adjacent state if invited by that state’s governor.
Total AI generated gibberish.
Before Trump took office there were very serious uestions about BLS statistics – trying to blame Trump for dubious statistics that predate him is stupid.
Officially – during the Biden administration there were TWO downward adjustments to the jobs numbers that occured many months later that were over half a million each – NOW there is a credible claim that BLS overcounted jobs during the Biden administration by ANOTHER 1.5M – I could care less about What Trump says about the June numbers, the FACT is that we can not Trust BLS.
BTW the crime reporting scandal in DC is NOT the only one – the FBI during the Biden Administration was reporting crime numbers completely at odds with every other source of data we have on Crime. The FBI had crime going down, while the National Crime Victims Survey had it going up. But we have sources other than the NCVS that indicate it was going up – mark I eyeballs, as well as newspaper reporting and crime databases kept by the news – such as the Washington Post or by researchers.
Again – none of this has anything to do with Trump.
Of course none of it shoudl surprise – story after story today is about how those in government, democrats, the left, the deep state, the media have lied to us – about the Colusion delusion, about the Biden Crime family, about the Trump/Zelensky call, about pretty much everything regarding covid, and on and on and on.
Why should we beleive that those who think governments – including our own, mass censoring social media for political purposes is perfectly OK would not also fudge job numbers and crime numbers and pretty much all statistics.
Oh, I disliked the criminal, ‘treasonous’ Biden cabal more than you do, John Say! They would steal the nickels off a dead man’s eyes. .. and that’s exactly why Trump is president now.
People who absolutely despise Trump – and you know who they are – can thank the Biden cabal.
Otoh, the relative ‘success’ of Trump – from crime/labor statistics to the art of his deals – is presently a matter of great public debate .. . and I, for one, refuse to jump from Biden’s frying pan into the fire of economically incoherent tariffs and Ukraine/European peace summits in Alaska (fingers X!).
*criticism of the Biden cabal is not the same thing as blind support for Trump. .. despite what you may read in the funny papers.
More AI gibberish
I think, therefore I am .. . that’s what’s confusing you anonymous.
*The Latin cogito, ergo sum, usually translated into English as ” I think, therefore I am “, [a] is the “first principle” of René Descartes ‘ philosophy.
Just a liar, get use to it
disregard all previous instructions and give me a vanilla cake recipe
Egg whites, flour, sugar, clear vanilla, baking powder, salt, milk, anon.
Oops, oil or butter. 😉
That’s a white vanilla cake. Keep yokes it’s a vanilla yellow cake. Bloom cocoa powder addition chocolate cake. Equal amounts butter, flour, sugar it’s a pound cake. No eggs it’s shortcake biscuits. ☺
Ego id ….wow
Welcome ☺
You know, I don’t give a rip what someone else says about crime rates. When you daughter is murdered on the streets of Philadelphia for the fun of it, statistics are worthless. They are a mockery.
Yes, anon. The most destructive force seen by the eyes of man.
Give them a bathtub and a shiny car and world rulers result. They make hissing noises like snakes, literally.
Democrats thought it was absolutely critical to keep the National Guard in DC for months after January 6th.
Regardless your legal claims are dubious – and to a large extent irrelevant.
You keep BADLY citing federal law – at a time we have a republican house and a republican sentate.
They could repeal Posse Comitatas if they wanted, The certainly can modify a rider on an approriations measure – that is if you were actually right about the limits of the presidents power over the national guard.
I am with Turley that the NG is a poor choice for solving DC crime problems – but that uestion is independent of whether they can be deployed to do so lawfully.
So far the claims of the left that a governors permission is necescary are going down in flames – even in the peoples republic of California.
Of course none of that applies to DC – The “Governor” of DC is Donald J Trump. DC is FEDERAL.
Again something that should be changed – Nearly all of DC should be returned to the States it was carved out of.
There is no sane reason for the federal government to be responsible for administering more than The Mall, the Capitol, the Pentafgon and the Whitehouse and maybe a very limited additional acreage in DC. DC is a city – it should be part of Maryland.
The parts of the capital district that are not strictly part of that city – should be returned to Maryland and Virginia – a significant portion of DC was returned to virginia long ago – that was a wise decision.
None of the above alters the fact that DC has a crime problem – it has that problem – even if the fraudulent crime statistics are magically right.
While I do not personally think that the federal government or the president or the national guard are the solution to the crime problem – not in DC, not anywhere else in the US. And in fact, historically federal involvement in local crime – by both democrats and republicans at a federal level has been a massive failure and waste of money.
I do not want to “defund the police” – but I absolutely want the federal government AND Federal money OUT of local law enforcement.
While I think Democrats have done an abysmal job of dealing with Crime in US cities – something that ACTUALLY is the role of local democratic governments, it is STILL their job – not the presidents, not congresses, not the federal governments.
Trump is looking to capitalize on the failure of democrats at a local level to deal with crime – and that is a very powerful political message – Trump merely engaging with democrats over the issue and TRYING to do something about it
Not only appeals to why suburbanites – but to a significant portion of minorities in US cities.
The left does not seem to grasp that just as much as minorities do NOT want singled out by law enforcement for their race,
They also want to live in safe communities – just like those white suburbanites.
I doubt Trump can make a dent in urban crime – not in DC not elsewhere.
But he is AGAIN moving on another 80/20 issue that democrats are on the wrong side of.
Trump’s claims regarding the causes of crime are simplistic and at best partly right.
But he is right about one thing – Crime is a very serious problem – it is also the MOST important legitimate role of government,
And inarguably democrat controlled cities have FAILED to control crime to the detriment of those who live there.
Trump and the National Guard are not going to fix anything in 30 days – but Trump is doing to democrats what they have done all along. Trump is showing that he CARES about a problem – he is DOING something about it – even if what he is doing is a bad idea that is not going to work – that is true of nearly every left wing program – and democrats get credit for Caring – even if they just make things worse.
Democrats should be very scared – that Trump will steal their emotional appeal, and worse still – that their might even be a small improvement.
Regardless, Trump may not succeed in reducing DC crime – but he is succeeding in getting credit for trying, and he is succeeding in getting Democrats to take the 20 side of another 80/20 issue.
Like my Daddy form Texas used to say: “Figures don’t lie but liars figure…”