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Well, This Ought to Make Heads Explode All Across D.C.
Well, This Ought to Make Heads Explode All Across D.C.
Exploring the rising crime in D.C. and the proposed National Guard deployment.
pjmedia.com
There probably isn't a bright red line or some official metric a city must measure up to — down to? — before being rated as Officially Ungovernable. But, if there is, surely Washington, D.C., crossed soon after the Martyrdom of St. George Floyd of Minneapolis.
"This is a safe city, but overhearing and witnessing gang threats and then watching the camera footage of the thuggery is disturbing," one D.C. resident told the Washington Post on Sunday. But — and I'm not making this up, so I'll quote WaPo reporters Olivia George, John D. Harden, and Jenny Gathright precisely — the resident who told them the city was safe was "speaking on the condition of anonymity over concerns of personal safety."
The mostly peaceful gang members tend toward violence when they hear you say they might not always be peaceful, I suppose.
Maybe that's why multiple sources inside D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser's office and within the Metropolitan Police Department indicated to WUSA9 News on Sunday that President Donald Trump will "definitely deploy the National Guard" throughout D.C. in an effort to curb crime and tackle the District's homeless crisis.
"It has become one of the most dangerous cities anywhere in the World. It will soon be one of the safest!!!" Trump posted to TruthSocial on Sunday, promising to "essentially, stop violent crime" in D.C.
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Without dragging you too deep into the Constitution, Congress in Article I was given the power and responsibility "to exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever" for the District. No statehood, no local government — just Congress running the seat of government. If nothing else, I wonder if the Founders gave Congress that job to keep them too busy to try micromanaging the rest of the country.
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Like so much that happened during the Nixon administration, maybe the kindest thing you could say about home rule is that it seemed like a good idea at the time.
If Congress won't or can't take back control of D.C., or even institute a few necessary home rule reforms, sending in the National Guard — and ICE, too, according to other reports — is almost certainly the next best option.
Although that still does leave one important question: What the hell are we going to do about the schools?
Commentary:
DC’s stats are bad, and that’s even after they’ve fudged the crime reporting statistics. It’s much worse.
At one time during the 1990's, my work required me to be in D.C. two to three times a week, sometimes requiring I stay overnight. There were signs in the lobby of hotels that was telling. They cautioned venturing to far from the hotel because of the high crime. Seemed like the night brought out the criminals like roaches.
They have bullet proof Wendy's, Mickey D's and 1/2 the gas stations, it wasn't for no reason.
Autonomous blacks cant treat anyone or anything with dignity. Its just not possible.
While defending the current situation, she did acknowledge a “terrible spike in crime in 2023”. Defending Local Authority: Bowser emphasized that the conditions necessary for the president to take control of the city’s police force under existing law are not currently present.
Even Mayor Bowser acknowledged she is against the actions proposed by DJT.
Facts, show that crime in D.C. today is higher than Chicago, New York, Baltimore even Havana Cuba.
Yet, in typical DC fashion, they just reelected a council member who had just been kicked off the council for being recorded on camera taking bribes.
Meanwhile, DJT should deploy DOGE to investigate and root out waste fraud and abuse in the DC government which was born in corruption as a payoff not to burn down the nice areas during the civil rights riots in the 1960s or 2020.
