We’re having a News Conference tomorrow in the White House. I’m going to make our Capital safer and more beautiful than it ever was before. The Homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY. We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital. The Criminals, you don’t have to move out. We’re going to put you in jail where you belong. It’s all going to happen very fast, just like the Border. We went from millions pouring in, to ZERO in the last few months. This will be easier — Be prepared! There will be no “MR. NICE GUY.” We want our Capital BACK. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Now they just need to play this while they give them the boot. God I love the display of Exec privilege and federal force in DC. Like with th 10 year jail sentences for destroying statues based on a 1900s statute, this rocks. You destroy monuments to Jefferson, Jackson or Lincoln, or attack a Doge employee, you get the full force of the law thrown at you.
None of this free yoga bullshit for young offenders or poet socialist woke bullshit.
I’m not sure what your point is. Trump specifically used Big Balls as the casus belli to instigate martial law. He needed an excuse to seize the streets with military power and Big Balls’ ass-kicking by a pair of 15 year olds was good enough. He is using D.C. as a trial run for the rest of the country’s cities. And this week’s distraction from Epstein.
The whole fiasco would be farcical if the separation of military and civilian powers wasn’t so cavelierly trampled over. You don’t send in the army to do civilian authorities’ - the cops - jobs. What separates the U.S. from any other Western hemisphere banana junta now?
As does anything else he does, apparently. He’s going to reclassify weed too. Don’t do it! Distraction! Peace in Armenia? Distraction!
Anyway, the right seems ok with the move, if not wary:
>Trump faces two political risks in pursuing this policy. The first is practical. Will his policies succeed? That poses a risk only if the courts don’t obstruct him. If they do, he will lay the blame at their door, and rightly so. The other risk is public alarm at the use of federal agencies and even National Guard troops on American streets. The public is understandably wary of the militarization and federalization of law enforcement, which has always been a local responsibility.
>Despite the risks, Trump’s emphasis on restoring order to Washington is a winning political strategy. It worked with border security, and it is likely to work in the nation’s capital. If it does, the president and his party can draw a sharp contrast between Republican law enforcement and Democratic failures across America.
Except by your own graph there has been a 75% drop in the homicide rate in D.C. in the past 30 years. This year shows a near record low, second to 2012. There is no crisis of such unusual and urgent proportions that it requires Trump to send in troops to restore order. Where are the riots? All I see is one kid being jumped by a gang of juvenile hoodlums. And what was Big Balls prowling the streets for at 3 A.M., anyway? Hmm, why would a 19 year old white kid be banging out in a rough neighborhood at that hour? I can think of a few reasons, none of them savoury.
Trump can also only take control of the local police force for up to 30 days before needing congressional approval. What he can actually accomplish over the course of a month remains to be seen, but I am skeptical of his ability to enact any lasting change in the coming weeks.
“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,” the “ABC News Live” host continued, as she reported on President Trump’s decision to place the city’s police department under federal control and deploy National Guard troops in the streets.
And if the numbers are down, isn’t that better for achieving desired results? You don’t sweep the streets during a typhoon becuase it’s windy.
“ Union officials said there is a larger trend of manipulating crime statistics.
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,” Fraternal Order of Police Chairman Gregg Pemberton said. “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.””
In my town in the UK the stats say crime has slightly gone down in the last 2-3 years but I don’t really believe it. I suspect violent crimes probably are dropping as that’s the national trend but people feel like there’s more crime in general becuase of being exposed all the time to these small unreported cases. For example, my local tesco has 2 entrances and they closed off 1 of them because people keep running out and not paying. I bet those are never reported.
