Trump Admin takes over D.C. Policing

[Mulberry Heel]

Where D.C. Crime Is Bad, Residents Question Trump’s Motives​

The president might have found allies in Southeast Washington, where violent crime has long vexed residents. But when he described the city as “disgusting,” with “roving mobs,” his remarks left those looking for help cold.

Where D.C. Crime Is Bad, Residents Question Trump’s Motives

The president might have found allies in Southeast Washington, where violent crime has long vexed residents. But when he described the city as “disgusting,” with “roving mobs,” his remarks left those looking for help cold.

www.nytimes.com

“… It’s not that they don’t believe crime is a problem in the nation’s capital. They know it is.

They just don’t believe the president cares — at least not about them. If he did, they asked, why are residents hearing of federal agents roving the whiter areas of 16th Street Northwest but less so in their largely Black neighborhood? Why are National Guard members posing with tourists at the Washington Monument?

… In neighborhoods such as Congress Heights and Washington Highlands, where the District of Columbia abuts Prince Georges County, Md., the city’s Black working class struggles with the twin challenges that have diminished the ranks of what was once, when Washington still had a majority Black population, affectionately called Chocolate City. There’s crime, for sure, but also gentrification driving Black residents into suburban Maryland and Virginia.

In Ward 8, where Congress Heights is found, there have been 38 homicides this year, accordingto data from the District of Columbia government. That’s almost 10 times as many as Ward 2, where the National Mall is located.

But when Mr. Trump on Monday described the district as “dirty” and “disgusting,” menaced by “roving mobs of wild youth,” he offended some who otherwise might have been more receptive to his “law-and-order” pitch.

… [Some residents think the real goal is to push Black residents out of DC]. Salim Adofo, a member of the Advisory Neighborhood Commission that represents parts of Congress Heights, was not surprised that residents were drawing connections between crime, federalized law enforcement and gentrification.

“It’s becoming harder to live in this specific community as it continues to get developed,” he said. “It’s all wrapped up in together. You really can’t separate any of these things.”…”

But we have been assured by some board Trumpers that DC residents would just love this crime crackdown and that it might even win Dear Leader more support from African-Americans! Strange how those troops sent by Trump usually aren't patrolling the parts of the city that have the worst rates of violent crime, but mostly the touristy areas and whiter neighborhoods where they can get maximum publicity and camera time.

 

[Callatoroy]

You unabashedly support Trump and the Republican party who have made the destruction of the ACA a central campaign issue since the day it was passed.

I dont know how you can square saying Healthcare is sacred with support for those who actively work to undermine it.

For me, if something is sacred, im never voting against it. Ever.

I don't unabashedly support trump in everything he does in the same way you guys hate everything he does. I can be objective with trump but not very many others here can. Ex. You can't bring yourself to fully acknowledge its a good thing that our border is secure. In no way is that a bad thing. Trump isn't the gate keeper for legal immigration as it relates to needed workers. That is restricted by our laws. I'm in agreement that the laws need to change, but that isn't trump restricting legal immigration. I don't believe you guys even acknowledge legal immigration anymore. It appears you don't care about that and only see immigration through the lens of illegal immigration.

I think this is a very good example of how policing should be conducted in high-crime neighborhoods.
Imagine if that same group of men were in that same neighborhood over long periods of time building trust and making relationships.

now contrast that video with the way the article was written. Do you find the article misleading or a correct description?

 

[ChileG]

I don't unabashedly support trump in everything he does in the same way you guys hate everything he does. I can be objective with trump but not very many others here can. Ex. You can't bring yourself to fully acknowledge its a good thing that our border is secure. In no way is that a bad thing. Trump isn't the gate keeper for legal immigration as it relates to needed workers. That is restricted by our laws. I'm in agreement that the laws need to change, but that isn't trump restricting legal immigration. I don't believe you guys even acknowledge legal immigration anymore. It appears you don't care about that and only see immigration through the lens of illegal immigration.

now contrast that video with the way the article was written. Do you find the article misleading or a correct description?

I don’t know I didn’t read the article, I just watched the video.
If you say the article was biased I will concede the point because in the grand scheme of things who cares. Most of the media sucks at their job.

 

[wmheel1287]

I don't unabashedly support trump in everything he does in the same way you guys hate everything he does. I can be objective with trump but not very many others here can. Ex. You can't bring yourself to fully acknowledge its a good thing that our border is secure. In no way is that a bad thing. Trump isn't the gate keeper for legal immigration as it relates to needed workers. That is restricted by our laws. I'm in agreement that the laws need to change, but that isn't trump restricting legal immigration. I don't believe you guys even acknowledge legal immigration anymore. It appears you don't care about that and only see immigration through the lens of illegal immigration.

now contrast that video with the way the article was written. Do you find the article misleading or a correct description?

I don't hate everything Trump does. I hate the things that he does that do harm to the nation overall. It just so happens that most of the things he does fall into that category.

And no...further securing the border is not automatically a good thing if the outcome is that we have fewer good and productive members of our society while decimating certain industries. We need good immigrants and the vast majority of immigrants are very good people. I think any effort to massively secure the border should be humane, legal, and paired with comprehensive immigration reform. What we are doing now is none of those things.

The "war on drugs" has been far more damaging to society than the drugs themselves, which is incredible given how horrible drug addiction is. Enforcement of inane policy is not a solution.

 

[nycfan]

Weirdly, the vehicle used by the masked me. appears to have consular plates.

 

[sringwal]

 

[1moretimeagain]

He does have his badge showing. I guess that’s a start lol

 

[wmheel1287]

Fucking insanity.

 

[WaynetheDrain]

This guy is Exhibit A of the modern day left - particularly in the age of Trump.
He's a professional attorney, 37 years old, who works with law enforcement as part of his job.
Yet, he can't control his emotions so he gets within a few inches of an officer yelling; "f**k you, f**king fascist."
Then, thinks it a good idea to hurl his sandwich at the officer and attempts to evade arrest.

Yes, unlike the level-headed, impulse-controlled calmness exhibited by modern day right.

 

[nycfan]

More National Guard Soldiers Head to D.C. and Prepare to Carry Weapons​

The shift comes after defense officials said the soldiers deployed to the capital wouldn’t be armed​

https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/national-guard-soldiers-prepare-to-carry-weapons-in-washington-d-c-3965923c?st=v19Ko2&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

“… Defense officials had previously said the 800 National Guard soldiers deployed wouldn’t be armed, unlike many federal law-enforcement agents sent to the capital. They also weren’t to have weapons in their vehicles. “Weapons are available if needed but will remain in the armory,” the U.S. Army said in a press release Thursday.

… Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had indicated that Guard members should play an active role as well. ”We’re not going to have National Guards sitting there like this,” he said in a Fox News interview Monday, crossing his arms, “seeing a crime committed and not do something about it.” …”

 

[superrific]

I don't unabashedly support trump in everything he does in the same way you guys hate everything he does. I can be objective with trump but not very many others here can. Ex. You can't bring yourself to fully acknowledge its a good thing that our border is secure. In no way is that a bad thing. Trump isn't the gate keeper for legal immigration as it relates to needed workers. That is restricted by our laws. I'm in agreement that the laws need to change, but that isn't trump restricting legal immigration. I don't believe you guys even acknowledge legal immigration anymore. It appears you don't care about that and only see immigration through the lens of illegal immigration.

No, you're the one who only sees immigration as "illegal immigration."

I do not acknowledge that the "border is secure" because that is not a good thing, not as you define it. You think the best thing to do for America is keep the brown people out. I do not think that. I do not think it is worth demonizing an entire ethnicity for speculative benefits at most. You've already seen how many citizens are being beaten or detained by ICE, and it's mostly Latinos because of your stereotyping and scapegoating.

The problem continues to be that you don't understand math. You never have. Thus you think that illegal immigrants make the country more dangerous when in reality they make the country safer. It's like you and timeouts. You get an errant idea in your head and, even though the falseness of that idea has been demonstrated to you, you carry on as if nothing happened.

I am objective about Trump. He's a dedicated fascist and he's creating a fascist state. Fact. I want nothing to do with that, because I know it will be horrible for the world. That's the lens through which I see him, and it's the right lens, and thus I don't think anything he does is good. It's not as if I am distorting myself much. I can't think of any policies, off the top of my head, from the last six months that aren't absolutely disgustingly horrible.

 

[Zoo_View]

They were saving Amuricuh!

I think this is a very good example of how policing should be conducted in high-crime neighborhoods.
Imagine if that same group of men were in that same neighborhood over long periods of time building trust and making relationships.

 

[nycfan]

Republicans governors want in on it — WVa, SC and Ohio send National Guard troops to DC.

 

[mpaer]

So trump has frozen a billion dollars that Congress has appropriated for DC
It includes a lot of public safety $
Geez

 

[ZenMode]

Whoever this guy is, he needs to take a lesson from Jussie Smolette: always hold on to your Subway.

If Jussie can do it while being the victim of a hate crime, this yahoo can do it.

Some of the better lines I've seen regarding the subway thrower:

Alcohol
Tobacco
Footlongs

Assault with a deli weapon

JB Pritzker Joins police force hoping to have sandwich thrown at him

 

[Mulberry Heel]

Interesting read from a former Washington Post reporter for those arguing that DC is such a crime-ridden hellhole that Republicans had to send in the troops. The post is referencing that fact that the GOP governors of three red states - Ohio, West Virginia, and South Carolina - have sent their National Guard troops to help Dear Leader in his "crackdown" of crime in DC.

From the post: "If there really is an emergency in D.C. that necessitates the use of the National Guard and other federal agencies, that would suggest that crime in D.C. is exceptional. (It would also suggest that crime is rising, which it isn’t; quite the opposite. But if you note that it’s falling, then you find yourself under attack for downplaying the existing crime, even when you aren’t. These are the traps that the pro-Trump bubble uses to keep reality at bay.) Data released by the FBI earlier this month, though, shows that a lot of other places — including places in those three states — had higher rates of violent crime and homicide than did D.C.

The FBI reported that fully 43 cities in those three states had higher rates of violent crime in 2024 than did D.C. More than 1.2 million people live in those cities, including more than 900,000 in Ohio alone. Yet that state’s National Guard is being deployed to D.C. to protect the capital’s 700,000-odd residents. Half a million Ohioans live in cities with higher homicide rates than D.C. Unfortunately for them, they won’t get to see National Guard troops on their streets — just on their TVs, standing around outside the Lincoln Memorial."

 

[UNCMSinLS]

Interesting read from a former Washington Post reporter for those arguing that DC is such a crime-ridden hellhole that Republicans had to send in the troops. The post is referencing that fact that the GOP governors of three red states - Ohio, West Virginia, and South Carolina - have sent their National Guard troops to help Dear Leader in his "crackdown" of crime in DC.

From the post: "If there really is an emergency in D.C. that necessitates the use of the National Guard and other federal agencies, that would suggest that crime in D.C. is exceptional. (It would also suggest that crime is rising, which it isn’t; quite the opposite. But if you note that it’s falling, then you find yourself under attack for downplaying the existing crime, even when you aren’t. These are the traps that the pro-Trump bubble uses to keep reality at bay.) Data released by the FBI earlier this month, though, shows that a lot of other places — including places in those three states — had higher rates of violent crime and homicide than did D.C.

The FBI reported that fully 43 cities in those three states had higher rates of violent crime in 2024 than did D.C. More than 1.2 million people live in those cities, including more than 900,000 in Ohio alone. Yet that state’s National Guard is being deployed to D.C. to protect the capital’s 700,000-odd residents. Half a million Ohioans live in cities with higher homicide rates than D.C. Unfortunately for them, they won’t get to see National Guard troops on their streets — just on their TVs, standing around outside the Lincoln Memorial."

Again, the political rebuttal to this nonsense should be, "I don't want my taxes wasted on this". Pressure also needs to be applied to the state guards to "bring our boys home where they're actually needed." Hammer the tax angle and the "what are our people doing there?" question.

 

[dukeman92]

But I think Ram and calla are real Americans, as horrifying as that is.

Ram would have been licking the boots of our British ancestors while admonishing those “pesky colonials”

 

[milom98]

Along with pointing out just how unamerican this Trump publicity stunt is, I want Democrats to point out how weak Republicans are on gun control and the direct involvement firearms have on violent crime. If the pubs want to talk up how tough they are on crime..., make them defend their positions on gun control (lack of).

Focus on that and blunt their tough on crime bs.

 

[HeWhoWearsCarolinaBlue]

Once again, TACO. He won’t send the guard troops into the neighborhoods where the violent crime actually takes place.

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