"D.C. residents and business owners are under siege"

[DigitalDrifter]

Gee, anyone care to guess where 95% of the problem lies?
Looks like the defund the police crowd are getting apparently what they wish for. If you're planning a vacation, why would anyone want to come to a place brimming with street crime?

Washington, DC, Police Union set to declare city crime a 'crisis' in House hearing as staffing continues to decline​

The Washington, D.C., Police Union is set to declare a "crisis" during its testimony at a hearing before lawmakers on Capitol Hill Thursday. The hearing, which will focus on the impact of crime in Washington on Congressional operations and visitors, comes a little over a week after the city passed a bill aimed at curbing crime in the nation's Capital.

Although violent crime is down 17% compared to the same time last year, crime was up significantly in 2023, especially in Ward 6, which includes Capitol Hill. The ward experienced "a 188% increase in homicides, a 66% increase in robberies, a 42% increase in sex assaults, a 57% increase in carjackings, and a 44% increase in violent crime" last year, according to planned testimony from Gregg Pemberton, Chairman of the D.C. Police Union, and obtained by ABC News.

Washington, DC, Police Union set to declare city crime a 'crisis' in House hearing as staffing continues to decline

The Washington, D.C., Police Union is set to declare a "crisis" during its testimony at a hearing before lawmakers on Capitol Hill Thursday.

abcnews.go.com

 

[Meister]

There is no such word as "crisis" in democrat speak.

 

[RhodyPatriot]

There is no such word as "crisis" in democrat speak.

Rahm Emmanuel may disagree with you on that.

But point taken.

 

[Burgermeister]

good

 

[Foxfyre]

There is no such word as "crisis" in democrat speak.

We rarely disagree on these things but I have to this time. 'Crisis' is a huge word in Democrat speak as several are famous for saying "No crisis should go to waste." Winston Churchill apparently coined the phrase in their struggles to form the United Nations. Rahm Emmanuel used it re Obama administration policies. Pelosi et al used it to spend massive dollars and override elections laws when COVID showed up in 2020. I'm sure the concept came into play to pass that obscene trillion plus spending bill to avoid the 'crisis' of the government shutting down.

But in fairness to you, those things that most citizens consider 'crisis' level problems i.e. rampant crime, the border being overrun by millions of illegals and such the Democrats will never phrase as 'crisis.'

 

[DigitalDrifter]

"Members of Congress are being assaulted and carjacked. Your Congressional Staff members are being robbed and stabbed."


Hopefully the ones being mugged are Dimocrats.

 

[Oddball]

If we're lucky, the mobs of roving violent goons could shut down the entire city!

 

[1srelluc]

Meh, deserves has everything to do with it......Drive across any bridge from DC and into Virginia and the crime rate drops four-fold or better.

Virginia don't play.

 

[TheParser]

Gee, anyone care to guess where 95% of the problem lies?

*** NO need to guess.

*** The problem lies with the marginalized young gentlemen who enjoy stealing cars and murdering other human beings.

*** It ain't never gonna change.

*** They are what they are.

 

[justoffal]

If we're lucky, the mobs of roving violent goons could shut down the entire city!

But....but....J6!!

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Meh, deserves has everything to do with it......Drive across any bridge from DC and into Virginia and the crime rate drops four-fold or better.

Virginia don't play.

Because that’s where all of the elitist white democrats live.

 

[whitehall]

It seems that the liberal mainstream media is in partnership with the criminal element throughout the U.S. The media generally downplays criminal activity except when the victims are a protected segment of society or the alleged perpetrators are republicans.

 

[1srelluc]

Because that’s where all of the elitist white democrats live.

Yep and they fund their JBTs to the max.....Never and I mean never fuck with the PDs in NOtVA.

 

[d0gbreath]

Doom and gloom bores me.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Yep and they fund their JBTs to the max.....Never and I mean never fuck with the PDs in NOtVA.

But if the fed was uprooted and moved to Utah or Nevada or Wyoming, the DC area would resemble East St Louis in a matter of months.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Doom and gloom bores me.

That's Because Groom Excites You

 

[TheParser]

Because that’s where all of the elitist white democrats live.

And those rich Democrats have, I believe, blocked the extension of the D.C. subway into certain "suburban" areas near D.C.

For the obvious reason.

 

[ActionJackson]

Gee, anyone care to guess where 95% of the problem lies?
Looks like the defund the police crowd are getting apparently what they wish for. If you're planning a vacation, why would anyone want to come to a place brimming with street crime?

Washington, DC, Police Union set to declare city crime a 'crisis' in House hearing as staffing continues to decline​

Washington, DC, Police Union set to declare city crime a 'crisis' in House hearing as staffing continues to decline

The Washington, D.C., Police Union is set to declare a "crisis" during its testimony at a hearing before lawmakers on Capitol Hill Thursday.

abcnews.go.com

Man ... if I didn't know better, I'd think we're talking about some backward, uncivilized, third-world jungle community deep in the continent of Africa.