Trump to take over D.C. Law Enforcement

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wmheel1287 said:
Ok, here is where I have to comment. It isnt her house.
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Thank you. Completely agree. Don’t really understand how it wasn’t very plainly clear that I was making a tongue in cheek comment to follow up the one I had made immediately above it. As I said, I can assure everyone here that if I wanted to wish death on someone, nobody would have any question as to whether I had done so.
 
superrific said:
This might blow your mind, but you can't always judge the wisdom of spending by looking at a single line description stripped from context.

For instance, I'm pretty sure UNC recruited both Mario Chalmers and Carlos Boozer. Doing so would have necessitated a trip to Alaska. And someone like you might look at some records and say, "why the hell are my tax dollars going to fly Roy Williams to Alaska???!?1/"

The way USAID works is to partner with local communities to advance projects of interest to them; that's how we make friends and develop good will abroad. It isn't for you to judge what's good for Guatemala.

In any event, "your" tax dollars are not going to that at all. People who complain about how "their" tax dollars are being wasted are just people who don't understand how public finance works.
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Keep telling me how to think and live my life I appreciate it…
 
wmheel1287 said:
Ok, here is where I have to comment. It isnt her house. She is a mod and does yeoman's work. However, she does have her own opinions and is free to express them. She's far from the only one

Actually, you were justifying Trump's waste of tax dollars and then posted those items to distract from Trump's waste.

If I agree that many of those expenditures are wasteful, will you agree that Trump's mess is often orders of magnitude more wasteful? While you think on that, id point you to a plane that we are going to spend more than a Billion dollars on simply because he personally likes it...not because it is needed.
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You don’t get it…The government has been wasting money on bullshit long before Trump…Nothing has changed Trump is just the new figure head…
 
roostra said:
I think he is calling out the implicit claim in your praise of Trump's DC policy that the military presence prevented murders in DC since there were no murders that week.

There are pretty substantial proof problems in that statement even in the best of circumstances, but the only way there is any grounds to make it would be if murders in DC were evenly spaced and occur every week with regularity.
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I wouldn't call it praise, but it's shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that a heavy law enforcement presence would result in a decrease in crime.
 
ZenMode said:
I wouldn't call it praise, but it's shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that a heavy law enforcement presence would result in a decrease in crime.
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A "decrease" from "barely any ever" to "zero for a week" isn't really a decrease. It's the law of averages.

Second, you conveniently forgot to talk about the rise in kidnappings over the last week by masked thugs. Surely, that counts as crime, yes?
 
Calheel said:
That is not what I understood, but if you are correct, then carry on with the shoes. No skin off my nose.
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I just do some light housekeeping from time to time around here these days, not content moderation.

And today I made a rather mild comment in response to a post.
 
 
ZenMode said:
I wouldn't call it praise, but it's shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that a heavy law enforcement presence would result in a decrease in crime.
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1. I don't know that we have seen stats that actually show crime is down.
2. From what I have read, they are not patrolling the areas of town where a disproportionately higher number of crimes occur
3. Correlation =/= causation
 
nycfan said:
I just do some light housekeeping from time to time around here these days, not content moderation.

And today I made a rather mild comment in response to a post.
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Yes. I'm not intending to make a big deal of it. It was a minor annoyance to me but not a big deal. I only keep responding to the poster who intimated that I was wishing death upon the president. I am simply providing clarification that I was not.
 
Calheel said:

wtop.com

White House says many arrests are being made in DC’s Wards 7 and 8 - WTOP News

The White House is pushing back against criticism that the federal takeover of D.C.’s police department is not focusing on the high-crime areas of D.C.
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Meh. Video says a lot of the arrests were IN 7 and 8.

I get that parents with children are concerned about loitering, drug dealing a prostitution, but it sounds like they're being a bit nit-picky. If NG aren't on the exact street THEY think they should be on, it's a problem.

It is interesting to see how much positive feedback there is, despite it being a Trump initiative. Turns out people just want to be safe where they live.
 
You don't have to hit every step on the way to the bottom when you take a pratfall down the stairs. Is there any of the little biases you miss?
 
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