The righteous recently have complained that Donald Trump is trying to reduce crime in Washington, D.C. where the murder rate is only about 27 per 100,000 in the most recent statistics, down from 40 per 100,000 in 2023. That’s almost perfect safety, we are told, and therefore Trump is plainly motivated by a combination of racism (AP, below) and a grand plan to transition to full dictatorship.
The same people who say that D.C. is perfectly safe tell us that people from Colombia, Guatemala, South Sudan, Venezuela, El Salvador, Syria, Yemen, and Afghanistan are entitled to asylum in the U.S. (and four generations of welfare if they want it) because their home countries aren’t safe. What do their home countries have in common? All have murder rates lower than Washington, D.C.’s (Wikipedia).
> All have murder rates lower than Washington, D.C.’s
Good try Philip, but you failed to mention that none of those countries have free housing, free healthcare, EBT and, of course, a free “Obama phone.”
Shrug, some of the news stories make it sound like it’s Port-au-Prince in D.C., gangs of youths wilding, robbing stores. I’ve heard gentrification blamed–could be final stop on the meetup schedule for some field observations.
Lightning and thunder, fear and wonder
Murder and murder, chaos, disorder
Hate and pain will rise again
Nothing remains, bring it on again
On and on and on and on…
On and on and on… inna Babylon
— Massimiliano A. Cavalera, “Babylon”
I lived and worked in the DC Metro area for 20 years, large swaths of DC are a dump for no good reason.
The Wizards and Capitals are leaving town because their fans are constantly harassed and robbed coming and going before and after games.
The town absolutely needs to be cleaned up.
The Metro police are understaffed, give them the help they need.
According to Google the proposed move is off, and coincidentally they have reached an agreement to renovate the existing arena.
“No, the Washington Capitals are not moving. Their planned move to a new arena in Alexandria, Virginia, has been called off. The Capitals, along with the Washington Wizards, will remain in their current downtown D.C. arena, Capital One Arena, through at least 2050. This decision came after a deal was reached between the teams’ owner, Monumental Sports and Entertainment, and the District of Columbia to renovate the existing arena.”
George, I haven’t been keeping up on this, thanks for the update.
I was around the arena in July and both 6th and 7th Streets are total sketch at night.
Also last time I was in DC a few years back, I noticed how unprofessional city services were fixing potholes on the highway, basically pouring asphalt into a deep hole, without restoring roadway layers. Even National Mall monuments needed maintenance – a block or a tile are missing here and there. Crime and human/female trafficking were apparent across the river in Arlington, not far from large defense contractors’ offices, fused into/near middle-class neighborhoods. Frankly I liked Maryland part of DC better. Think it should be disbanded, separated into federal land around National Mall and Pennsylvania Avenue and rest attached to Maryland. DC subway starts in Maryland anyway.
Trump, let’s say “pushes the theoretical limits of abductive heuristics”, but I think Occam’s Razor still holds here. What’s the simplest explanation of bringing in the guard? Outrage provoking political theater, in line with many actions Mr. Trump has taken to keep people’s attention on him and buzzing on Twitter, instead of the problems at hand–would be my guess. Hey, I’m not complaining, the other side outsourced my whole department overseas, was that any better?
I hope the troops do maintain law-and-order if that really is what is needed. But also hopefully, they won’t be there permanently, and they act lawfully when they are. When the situation is stabilized what then? “Lock-em-up”, has been modern America’s go to solution. What is the root cause of crime in D.C.? Why are the roads crumbling (driven through West Virginia or Michigan recently, talk about crumbling roads)? I honestly don’t know, but probably related.
How are the elites (and Hunter Biden) supposed to get their cocaine without that Colombian Juan Valdez type of quality and service they’ve come to expect? I have no idea what Sudanese bring to the table though :/
I live in a 50+ golf course community in S. Trump-land. Our trap-house neighbor moves more illegal weed per week than Juan V.’s Jenny-mule could carry in a month. When I ask the police, “Why don’t you get a warrant on that house, when like now you smell MJ from 100 ft away?” they say it isn’t a priority. I hope Trump gets around sending the guard to Foxrun Estates eventually, as long as he removes them once ol’ Snoop Weedsmoke is in custody and they don’t damage my faux brick trim with stray rounds.
@Crassus Cray-Cray,
So why are you still there? It looks to me that if you are able to live in this 50+ golf course community, drug-infested, Trump-land, you have the means of moving out to some better place — but you haven’t. Why not?
So the solution is for law-abiding citizens to run and hide rather for law enforcement to do their job?
@Greg, If the majority in this affluent 50+ golf course community are fine with “a neighbor moving more illegal weed per week than Juan V.’s Jenny-mule could carry in a month,” and if, as @CCC says, the police don’t care, then yes, you are better off running and hiding. Why live and socialize in a community whose values you don’t agree with or approve of, especially when you have the means to move out?
When dictators like Putin and Xi interfere with their local govts and businesses, we used tell entire world how bad they are. Now interference from our President into businesses is a daily routine. But again i am not complaining about D.C take over. May be the difference is they are dictators and our POTUS is Messiah. While at it here are top 10 dangerous cities, lets take over all of these and start Making America Safe Again.
Memphis, TN
Cleveland, OH
Toledo, OH
Little Rock, AR
Peoria, IL
Springfield, IL
Detroit, MI
Akron, OH
Beaumont, TX
Rockford, IL
We are not even talking about Chinese government interfering with US businesses and businessmen. How tariffs are interfering with specific businesses? They are standard instrument no to interfere with specific businesses, there is no way to exempt specific businesses from tariffs, unlike from corporate taxes. Regarding Trump’s Intel CEO statement, it is right on the money. Intel can be considered strategic defense business for US. It destroyed enough shareholder wealth with its socialist DEI policies already, I missed the flag to sell it when it discontinued running HS science competition. Now its CEO is a major shareholder in Intel’s foreign competitors who by law have to follow adersary governments instructions, how is it for the rest of Intel shareholders and for defense industry which consumes Intel chips?
Let me clarify I am in full support of tariffs but not in support of dictating businesses what to do not to do.
what about telling walmart and others not to increase prices and telling amazon not to show tariff break down on price.
Let me add more, Tariffs are a GOVT policy and we(I voted for him) elected knowing this will the policy and I fully support it. The whole point of imposing tariffs is to raise to imported goods price so that domestic companies can competite on level field and more domestic jobs. If POTUS threatens any business(Walmart, Amazon etc ..) try to increase the price of these then what is point of the tariffs.
Anon: tariffs should be supported by the righteous because they function as a consumption and carbon emission tax: https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2025/04/06/if-consumption-taxes-and-carbon-taxes-are-good-why-are-tariffs-bad/
(If you don’t love tariffs then you hate the planet!)
@phil I agree with you. But if prices does not go up then consumption will not come down.
@Anonymous of August 15, 2025 at 9:45 am,
I agree — Trump should not have sent federal National Guard troops to D.C. Each city and state should manage its own affairs and address its own challenges.
Accordingly, when a city or state needs assistance, whether to suppress a riot, recover from a natural disaster, or address bankruptcy, it should not be knocking on Uncle Sam’s door for help or funding, thereby depriving other states of their own resources for not keeping their own affairs in order.
I’m listening to an old radio series called “This Is Your FBI”
https://archive.org/details/OTRR_This_Is_Your_FBI_Singles
from the 40s-50s, with stories taken from case files colored with fun anti-commie and anti-crime propaganda. Apparently, shortly after WWII, crime among the youth was spiking. The FBI had some cute quotes on how to fix the crime problem:
“…in one respect however [since the 1920s] there has been little change and that is the state of mind which results in the constant growth of the criminal army … How many parents have asked if the other has seen the story in the evening paper, the one about that bank robber who got away with $100,000. Far too often the answer is ‘I would almost be willing to rob a bank myself for that much money’ or ‘That takes a lot of courage’. [Ed. That does sound like my grampa, Clyde.] How can parents who say things like that expect a child to correct them, to tell them it doesn’t take courage to hide behind a machine gun. To tell them that criminals are ‘the vermin of the Earth’. To tell them the very things that they themselves should be telling the child. You as an individual cannot stop that practice, you can only ensure one thing: make sure it doesn’t happen in your home.”
— “Yesterday’s Killers” episode, January 6, 1950
The show was very strong-woman progressive, left-over from Rosie-the-Riveter I guess…and females often led the crime gangs and were quite callous about violent crime. “Just dump the body into the creek, I have to re-apply my lipstick.”
“Far too many people are under the delusion that because the well-publicized gangs of the 20s were exterminated, no such gangs can rise again, but the truth is that all over the country, there are men with plans for taking over a city, a county, an entire state. Those men [sic, see above] can be stopped from the fulfillment of their odorous schemes, but they can be stopped only by you, the citizen. Your power to prevent those mobs of hoodlums from obtaining power lies in your secret ballot. For only in a locale where venal politicians have taken over can organized crime prosper, only in a place where the police are shackled. That situation has existed in the past, and if we are not careful it may exist again, unless you do something about it. That something [sic] is first, to make sure you vote when election time comes and second, make sure you know the man you are voting for. Do that this year, remove the crooked politician from power, see to it that your police department is free to do its job–and we in law enforcement will have a better chance of helping us move forward to a better America–an America that has won the war against crime.”
— J. Edgar Hoover, “Yesterday’s Killers”, January 6, 1950
❤️👏👏👏😂 Ain’t shit changed.
We also need an America that has won the war against war.
@Crassus: “I live in a 50+ golf course community in S. Trump-land.”
Are the pot heads renters? Are they 50+ y/o/ Can the HOA do anything?
[Still waiting for “The Lucid” to charge at 120V, 0.5 A]
> Are the pot heads renters?
Sorry, I meant 55+, and also “Jenny donkey”. Are you actually PhilG, taunting me? Yes, of course they are renters. What the hell else would they be? The HOA has priorities too (true story–a policeman actually did once refer me to the HOA too saying, “You know the your HOA has more authority than me, right?”) The traffic cones in our drive during Covid to prevent all the vaccine delivery trucks from turning around in it were their enforcement priority. Weedsmoke’s cones are OK to create a lane for drive-thru sales.
I think Weedsmoke’s 56 y/o mom has the lease, the HOA allows renting. The trap house also appears to be doing some kind of human trafficking ops there, different people checking the mail every day. I gave Phil a lot of crap for moving to FL, but it’s looking better and better if I can find a house that isn’t in Stuart, FL near Becky–she’s pushing AirBnB’s in Phil’s ‘hood–at least the covenant blocks those here.
On to fishing on a little boat.
Our HOA would be delighted to have healing marijuana sellers in our neighborhood so long as they used river stone and not white stone and got approval for paint and roof tile colors!
Twenty-five years ago, I turned down a six-figure job with the DC government (in order to relocated (back) to FL for 35% less pay). DC seemed not too sketchy back then, at least the areas I would have been frequenting. My prospective DC coworkers, on the other hand, well…
DP: I think DC is still probably quite safe in elite neighborhoods, which is why elites are against federal intervention.
^ and the rent was $1200 for a decent 1 b/r in an old building in Rock Creek! Seemed expensive at the time.
This fake news just in:
Our sources (mostly untrusted) have provided us leaked information (probably falsified) from the one-term Biden administration, that plans were being made, had the election been stolen, that Harris would have implemented her own plan for lowering the crime in D.C.
Instead of sending in the National Guard, they were going to “Send in the Clowns”, to wit, a fleet of clown cars painted in neutral, DEI-friendly rainbow colors and stuffed with funny clowns. The cars were to be equipped with PA speakers and to blast, “A (Trans) Boy Named Sue”, by Joanie Cash and “We *Are* Going to Take It (All Your Income)” by Twisted Cis-ter as they drove around neighborhoods distributing samples of “Grandma Weedsmoke’s Homemade Brownies”. Why this would have reduced crime is still only known by the Demi-crats.
Further fake details will be released, as they are made up. This has been a government subsidized People’s Republic Radio newsbrief. (Will the last reporter layed off, please turn off the lights?)
I can’t speak for DC, but I assure you, Oakland definitely needs the Guard immediately to support the Oakland police. It’s been absolutely out of control violence for the last 50 years. The rates of violent crime and theft are unacceptable.
The mayor tells us everything is fine. It isn’t.