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You’re seeing a lot of talk that violent crime in the District of Columbia is at a “30 year low.”
That appears to come from a press release sent out by the Biden Justice Department on January 3, 2025, during the transition, with the headline “Violent Crime in DC Hits 30 Year Low.”
You also know there have been questions about Metropolitan Police Department crime statistics, so some elements of the press release’s reference to “total violent crime” might be in question.
One thing that is clear is that DC homicides are not at a 30 year low.
Just look at this chart and you will see that the years 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, and 2006 all had fewer homicides than 2024.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/violent-crime-dc-hits-30-year-low
187!? Well when I lived in Chicago in 91, there was an 8 block section that averaged a murder a day.
Socialists don’t care about facts, it’s all about their feelings.
If they feel like things have gotten better, or if they feel like they can believe the weasel telling them things have gotten better, they Jim Dandy, things have gotten better.
And when many of them are on mind altering meds. . . they can talk themselves into believing anything.
And if they “feel” that they are a woman today and a man tomorrow, you must call them by their “preferred pronouns” with each change of feeling. Or so they contend.
And there is the DEI police chief who doesn’t understand the phrase or the hierarchy of “Chain of Command”.
None of this should be a surprise to anyone…
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/yikes-dei-dc-police-chief-doesnt-know-what-term-chain-command-means
She was initially hired as chief of Equity.
Anyone who has ever had equity in their title, unless they work in traded securities, should be fired immediately and salt poured on everything they ever touched.
DC police commander suspended, accused of changing crime statistics
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/dc-police-commander-suspended-crime-statistics/3959566/
Another tragedy on the roads outside of Chicago…
https://wgntv.com/news/illinois/republicans-criticize-illinois-immigration-policies-after-deadly-crash/
LIBERAL JUDGES & LAWS CAUSE THIS !
IF
The JUDGES JAILED the OWI / DWI / HABITUAL Driving Infractions – THIS WOULD CUT the CARNAGE DOWN.
CHANGE The LAWS and INSURANCE Requirements – THROW THEM in JAIL for DRIVING WITHOUT a License !
Had a Person Stopped in a Neighboring City with a Child / NO DRIVERS LICENSE / Limited English and Speeding Infraction the police LET THEM GO
ie.
https://www.ncdd.com/indiana-owi-laws
game time.
What was Comey rushing to his lawyer friend when he got fired…
he was saying it was important stuff that shows PDJT was working with the russians right.
that piece of shit is in big trouble. his kooky wife has ruined his brain.
there was nothing there, so what was he saying he had.
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/459472-comeys-classified-misconduct-and-the-medias-flawed-coverage-of-it/
(nothing but spying on PDJT’s intentions as President – nothing russian)
“The IG concluded irrefutably that Comey’s “Memo 2,” recounting a Jan. 27, 2017, conversation with the president about the Russia investigation and dealings with world leaders, contained classified information.
“Memos 2 and 7 contained small amounts of information classified at the ‘CONFIDENTIAL’ level,” the IG reported. Confidential is the lowest classification for secrets “that could be expected to cause damage to the national security,” according to the ODNI manual.
When Comey’s Memo 2 was finally declassified in 2018, it was shown to contain 11 classified passages or words related to foreign leader conversations that President Trump referenced during his meeting with Comey. The FBI identified six classified words and the National Security Council identified five more, according to the IG.
The IG also concluded that Comey wrongly removed documents from the FBI and failed to put classification markings on them. That’s a violation of FBI and intelligence community rules, the report said.
But from the time Comey wrote it until it was declassified, the entirety of the memo was deemed to be classified under the intelligence community’s rules, even if it did not have the proper markings.”
Analysis of the raw data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) household survey, officially called the Current Population Survey (CPS), shows an unprecedented 2.2 million decline in the total foreign-born or immigrant population (legal and illegal) between January and July of this year. We preliminarily estimate that the number of illegal immigrants has fallen by 1.6 million in just the last six months. This is likely due to increased out-migration in response to stepped-up enforcement. However, analysis based on the CPS comes with caveats….
https://cis.org/Report/Overall-ForeignBorn-Population-Down-22-Million-January-July
Its based on household surveys, so yes, fewer people are going self-identify themselves as immigrants in 2025.
Living the dream……
They appear to have some sort of a Homeless economy?
The ones who are mobile anyway?
Why we allow this in our major cities is inexplicable.
Looks like winter possibly. Cool weather for sure with the coats they have on. What a mess of broken lives.
DeSantis has just appointed Florida state senator Jay Collins as Lt. Governor of the state, he appears to be a patriotic fellow; I anticipate he will later himself run for Governor of Florida, and very MAGA in already campaigning for.
Wondering what Floridians think about this race.
Meant to say, Byron Donalds, very MAGA, is already running.
So, as between Donalds and Tillis. ?
Country Singer’s Mom Killed in Home Invasion Before Father Shoots Intruder
Kevin Moses Walker:
https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/SzuO_XpyuKeRqQM4s3Ybiw–/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTUzNDtjZj13ZWJw/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_577/9867c573dffcd7dec09b4ca6ce3fbda1
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Texas House Democrats caved. Texas House will soon move forward to approve the redistricting that the Texas Senate approved Tuesday.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) and other Democrats from Texas in the US House can kiss their seats goodbye.
All GOP states need to also redistrict.
https://t.me/SGTnewsNetwork/101304
Kiss their seats… haha.
When you don’t want to engage a troll in conversation, you are welcome to use this photo.
I don’t know about this, but check it out for yourself.
By federalizing the District, he did more than take command of the capital’s security… he began dismantling a 150 year old corporate sovereignty born from the Act of 1871, a legal fiction that made DC a separate power center… equal in standing to the City of London and Vatican City…
Can someone that uses X post a link to the thread for this?
Here is a reader app link to the full thread:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1955104143401418851.html
The “weakness” of the American white male has been greatly overstated, and the reckoning is upon you who have doubted our resolve and strength. The great comeuppance is upon us. No one will be immune to its implications. Soccer moms beware.
Interesting.
Secretary of State spokeswoman Tammy Bruce press briefing from earlier today; it begins at the 50 minute mark and ends at the 1 hr. 50 min. mark (it says it’s a 2 hr 15 min video); at the beginning she mentions that at the end of the question answer period she will make an announcement (her recent UN nomination) under the topic of ‘personal business’:
UFC Cage Match Fight July 4th, 2026 at the White House.
President Trump v President Putin?
Or they just watch together?
https://gizmodo.com/ufc-boss-says-cage-fight-is-seriously-coming-to-the-white-house-2000641931
Funny how a duck video search of “trump mcmahon ufc bet haircut” finds nothing.
DEI police Chief doesn’t know what “chain of command” means?
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D.C. Police Chief Left Completely Dumbfounded When Asked About the Current Chain of Command Following Trump’s Federal Takeover (VIDEO)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/dei-action-d-c-police-chief-left-completely
Pentagon Golden Dome to have 4-layer defence system, slides show
The Golden Dome missile defence system faces an ambitious 2028 deadline set by US President Donald Trump himself.
Published Aug 13, 2025, 06:33 AM
Updated Aug 13, 2025, 06:53 AM
WASHINGTON – The Trump administration’s flagship Golden Dome missile defence system will include four layers – one satellite-based and three on land – with 11 short-range batteries located across the continental US, Alaska and Hawaii, according to a US government slide presentation on the project first reported by Reuters.
The slides, tagged “Go Fast, Think Big!” were presented to 3,000 defence contractors in Huntsville, Alabama, last week and reveal the unprecedented complexity of the system, which faces an ambitious 2028 deadline set by US President Donald Trump.
The system is estimated to cost US$175 billion (S$224.53 billion), but the slides show uncertainties still loom over the basic architecture of the project because the number of launchers, interceptors, ground stations, and missile sites needed for the system has yet to be determined.
“They have a lot of money, but they don’t have a target of what it costs yet,” said one US official.
So far, Congress has appropriated US$25 billion for Golden Dome in Mr Trump’s tax-and-spend Bill passed in July.
Another US$45.3 billion is earmarked for Golden Dome in his 2026 presidential budget request.
Intended as a multi-layered missile defence shield for the United States, Golden Dome draws inspiration from Israel’s Iron Dome, but is significantly bigger due to the geography it will need to protect and the complexity due to the varied threats it will face.
According to the slides, the system architecture consists of four integrated layers: a space-based sensing and targeting layer for missile warning and tracking as well as “missile defence” and three land-based layers consisting of missile interceptors, radar arrays, and potentially lasers.
One surprise was a new large missile field – seemingly in the Midwest according to a map contained in the presentation – for Next Generation Interceptors (NGI) which are made by Lockheed Martin and would be a part of the “upper layer” alongside Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (Thaad) Aegis systems which are also made by Lockheed.
NGI is the modernised missile for the Ground-Based Midcourse Defence (GMD) network of radars, interceptors and other equipment – currently the primary missile defence shield to protect the United States from intercontinental ballistic missiles from rogue states.
The US operates GMD launch sites in southern California and Alaska. This plan would add a third site in the Midwest to counter additional threats.
Other technical hurdles the slides identified included communication latency across the “kill chain” of systems.
Contractors such as Lockheed, Northrop Grumman, RTX, and Boeing have a variety of missile defence systems.
Notably, the slides did not mention Mr Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which was part of a bid for Golden Dome contracts alongside software maker Palantir and defence systems manufacturer Anduril.
The Pentagon said it is gathering information “from industry, academia, national labs, and other government agencies for support to Golden Dome” but it would be “imprudent” to release more information on a programme in these early stages.
One key goal for Golden Dome is to shoot targets down during their “boost phase,” the slow and predictable climb through the Earth’s atmosphere of a missile.
Rather, it seeks to field space-based interceptors that can more quickly intercept incoming missiles.
The presentation highlighted that the United States “has built both interceptors and re-entry vehicles” but has never built a vehicle that can handle the heat of reentry while targeting an enemy missile.
The last lines of defence dubbed the “under layer” and “Limited Area Defence” will include new radars and current systems like the Patriot missile defence system and a new “common” launcher that will launch current and future interceptors against all threat types.
These modular and relocatable systems would be designed to minimise reliance on prepared sites, allowing for rapid deployment across multiple theatres.
Space Force General Michael Guetlein, confirmed in July to lead the Golden Dome project, has 30 days from his July 17 confirmation to build a team, another 60 days to deliver an initial system design, and 120 days to present a full implementation plan, including satellite and ground station details, people briefed on a memo signed by Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth have told Reuters
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/pentagon-golden-dome-to-have-4-layer-defence-system-slides-show
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/texas-democrats-cave-will-return-house-governor-abbotts/
The Dems will return but only for the new session called by Abbot as soon as this session ends. Apparently they just wanted to play games.
I think this is the third time they have pulled this stunt. If they are not penalized is some way the Republicans should all be primaried and replaced with Republicans who have strength to do the right thing. In other words, if they do not want to hold the Dems accountable, they should be held accountable instead.
This is in the wrong space. It was not meant as a reply to you nichan. It was to be a completely new subject.
I apologize.
No worries. It’s okay. Things like this do happen. I was reading your reply and trying to understand where the connection was;-). Then saw your next post. Have a good evening.
This thing is a total shite show. More money printing for the MIC
Good one, Walz and your DEI fixation…
Sarah Strommen, the first lesbian Director of Natural Resources. No apparent qualifications for the job.
Her Department “accidentally” drained an entire Minnesota lake by leaving a valve open.
Dead fish everywhere.
Awesome…
you have a superb point there, illustrated by alarming examples of incompetence country wide.
just as B.S., M.S., and PhD are suffixes that provide a preliminary evaluation
of a person’s suitability for a particular position,
so should DEI, NAQ, and CO be standard suffixes for evaluating
candidates for employment.
(standing for : Diversity,Equity,Inclusion; No Apparent Qualifications; and Community Organizer, respectively.)
certainly helpful in understanding why, say, an Aleutian lesbian who took a couple of courses in social work becomes Chief of Police of a major metropolitan area at $200K per year.
(NO offense intended to any minority and/or lesbians and/or social work majors.😊)
Mark Steyn said it best, zoom…
“Overcredentialed, undereducated.”
But this was from his first book America Alone in 2006. Always prescient is Mark; but not even he could have possibly foretold the societal disaster which was forced on this nation with people who have no credentials, no education, and no qualifications for the positions they occupy by people who wish to destroy it.
Alas, it is the same throughout the Western world. An insidious disease whose faddish time surely must come to an end. I pray so.
No charges for animal cruelty?
Depopulation is their thing.
Selling the food stamps
Wasn’t the dude with the microphone the same obnoxious twit who caught George Costanza double dipping?
Judge Jeanine OBLITERATES DC Crime Spin — Shreds Reporter for Claiming “Crime Is Down” After Brutal Attacks on Innocent Victims
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/judge-jeanine-obliterates-dc-crime-spin-shreds-reporter
DOGE scores win on appeal as court rejects labor union challenge
excerpt:
A federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected an effort by a group of labor unions to block President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, from accessing potentially sensitive U.S. user data from several government agencies.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doge-scores-win-appeal-court-rejects-labor-union-challenge
Overall Foreign-Born Population Down 2.2 Million January to July
(Illegal population estimated to have fallen 1.6 million this year)
https://cis.org/Report/Overall-ForeignBorn-Population-Down-22-Million-January-July
Rushing for the exit: Illegal immigrant population down 1.6 million under Trump crackdown
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/12/illegal-immigrant-population-16-million-trump-crackdown
This has been reported here already and someone surmised that this is a poll and illegals won’t be truthful when asked their status?